The odd thing about all this - pink was a male colour well into the 19th century, or thereabouts.- then some early marketer started using pink for girls....
Ale-Cipollini usually have a very flou yellow strip, changed to pink the same was as Once used to at TdF, to show respect to the yellow jersey. I watched the recording and pink was not exactly "in your face", or perhaps I missed it because I actually focussed on the bike racing in difficult conditions!