Back in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, pink was considered a very masculine color. Men of power would often wear pink to assert their authority; even Gatsby was said to wear a pink suit in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This pink phenomenon also applied to the Clover Club, a group of highly regarded Philidelphia journalists that met every Thursday at the Hotel Bellevue from 1883 to 1887. There, they sipped on a bright pink cocktail of the same name, which Jack Townsend, author of “The Bartender’s Book” (1951), described as the “distinguished patron of the oak paneled lounge.” The Clover Club remained popular among drinkers until the 1930s, when it was named one of the ten worst cocktails in existence by Esquire. This was due to the drinking fashion of the time changing to more spirited cocktails such as an Old Fashioned or a Manhattan, but also had to do with a shift in attitude among male drinkers who now deemed the frothy delight a “girly drink.” Luckily, because of the recent renaissance of classic pre-prohibition cocktails, society has given the Clover Club another try, and many new iterations of the drink come from its triumphant return!