RedHead Day: Redheads from across the country celebrated their day at Women's Bridge

The redheads from different parts of the country concentrated this afternoon at Women's Bridge, in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires, to celebrate their thirteen-year-long celebration of the world. Painter was overwhelmed by the number of red women in Breda, Holland.

Why is he famous

RedHead Day (Roodharigendag) has been celebrated since 2005 and it was because the painter Bart Rouwenhorst then ran an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper looking for red-headed women for a painting. He needed 15 calls but 150 No, decided to hold a meeting and so a festival was born which, 13 years later, brings together thousands of redheads from different parts of the world.

In 2013, also in Breda, the Netherlands, a Guinness record was obtained after gathering 1672 people and taking a photo with the most natural rouxes, said Omar Fornataro, founder of the Pelirrojos club.

Redheads Club

This organization founded in 2013 seeks to "promote meetings between roux, sometimes solidarity activities and travel different places with messages of rejection of discrimination, but especially to strengthen the links between us," said Fornataro.

With this in mind and to celebrate the International Day of the Redheads, the 55-year-old man and his "club" focused shortly after 2 pm on the Women's Bridge, invoking "colos" from various locations via social networks. .

To the first person

"Since I went to study in Buenos Aires almost two years ago, I attended these meetings," Cevilan told Telam by handing out pins to those present.

The young native of Santiago del Estero said that "many of us are already friends, we meet every two or three months, couples have formed and have also got rid of".

"He appeared after several generations," said Verónica Navas, holding his 20-month-old son, Dante, in his arms, and said that there is no "redhead" in the little boy's family. familiar, at least among those we have come to know. "

"It's a novelty in our family, it's our special coloradito and that makes us all crazy," said the 37-year-old woman who learned about the existence of the activity via social networks and "who wanted Dante to participate".

"I did not think there were so many red people, it's not common to see so much roux together," said Jesica, 21, who has been coming to the business since the city of Laferrere, in Buenos Aires.

After sharing experiences, met the "new ones" and welcomed them, the group of redheads, almost all dressed in green, as indicated on the social media invitation, photographed the Women & # 39; s Bridge to capture it. the encounter.