Dancers wore pink, refreshments were pink, even the drinks were pink - with the odd pink gin clothed in a bottle of spring water.
The senior service, with its white ducks and pink gins, has been pretty much a law unto itself.
Think of Ealing comedy star Terry Thomas in full-on bounding Major mode, making improper suggestions to the local district nurse over a pink gin.
People downed chilled beer, pink gins and energetic old couples jived!
Young was so at ease with his power and patriotism that the former deputy head of MI6 once ordered, between pink gins, the assassination of the president during the crisis.
For many, however, the prospect of even trying pink nail varnish on your fingers is a step too far and, by now, you may be forgiven for feeling the only pink that will do is a pink gin.
It's the kind of phrase that is spluttered out through a spray of pink gin or in a drizzle of descending real ale.
To the good Major, the Pattaya Mail and all her good readers: a well deserved stiff pink gin to us all.
G&T drinkers will like it, but the pink gin and martini crowd won't be as keen.
Everybody knew you couldn't get a drink on board an American warship, whereas in Royal Navy wardrooms the pink gins flowed like water.
All those former Tory MPs caught in the bushes of St James Park with one of those fine upstanding men must be crying into their pink gins.
You rarely saw one, and when you did it was likely to be when some show-off toff was signing the back of it before tendering it to a wide-eyed barmaid for a pink gin.
Anyway, I'd made her a couple of large pink gins and, as my sister likes to say, she was a bit laalaaed.
All but gone are the grand verandas where plots for novels and more serious misdeeds were hatched over pink gins behind potted palms.