To wonder if you call it dusty pink or dusky pink?

[MsHopey]

My DSis is getting married this year.
I've been looking online for bridemaids dresses. I was under the impression the shade I was looking for was called dusky pink, but I'm not getting many hits and eBay wants to correct it to dusty pink.
When I do this, there's also lots of the same shade of pink dresses.
Which is it?
What do you call it? Because now I'm just confused.

Dusky makes it sound like it's a shadowy type pink, dusty pink to me is more mucky pink

Dusky.

Dusty is surely something someone mispronounced and it spread.

Dusky pink. Oh gosh, Meggie's dress. She looked so beautiful in it!

Dusky. Never heard of dusty pink. It sounds like it would need a good wash!

Yes dusky like the pink in the clouds when the sun is setting at dusk.

I'm surprised someone has said dusky has racist undertones? That's quite a leap considering we're describing a shade of pink dye.

I know it as dusty pink but that's only because I've seen it described as such on clothing websites.
My partner also bought a shirt a few months ago from ASOS and the colour specified on there was 'dusty pink'...
so I definitely think retailers are more recently saying dusty pink as opposed to dusky pink

Dusky pink, a very pretty shade, ideal for a tea-dance dress.

Reminds me of other colours rarely heard these days like Cafe au lait and Eau de Nil.

Dusky.

I didn't say 'dusky' was racist when talking about a sickly pink dress, I said it just feels like an ugly word to me because when I hear it I think of the racist undertones of the word in some circumstances and it's just unpleasant. Just a personal word preference. I have a lot of them. Say whatever you like, though! I'll do the same.

Dusky.
I had never heard of Dusty Pink until today -I would have presumed it was a spelling mistake had I seen it on a website.
Dusty doesn't really make sense? To me it would conjure images of dirt -so a dusty pink dress would have a grey/brown undertone..

I always thought it was dusky but seen so many people saying dusty recently I started to doubt myself.

Pantone lists it as dusty pink though.

Oh yes Maggie and her dress , I loved that book.
Dusky.

Dirty actually (Australian though so I say a lot of thing incorrectly).

It's fair enough to dislike the word Dusky Mallorie if it has racist undertones for you. Sorry not trying to goad you into an argument.

I wonder if the word Dusky has been dropped on all these clothing websites because of that reason?

It's only dusty pink if you keep it in an old chester draws.

Now I would have said dusty and I'm usually pretty good at these....

Dusky. I always thought people saying dusty had just misheard 'dusky'.

That dress is nice!

Ashes of roses (actually dusky pink but LOVED the Thornbirds).

It's definitely dusky.

I say chest of drawers, Facebook sellers say Chester draws.....

I would say dusky. It's very nice anyway!

Ted Baker, Burberry, Adidas, Next and H&M all call it dusky. It's now confirmed in my mind.

I thought the correct form is dusky, however I'm not English (nor American) and that shade is called dusty pink in literal translation from my native language so I can easily imagine sellers not looking it up properly.

I've never heard of ashes of roses or eau de nil so this thread makes me happy. Have heard of café au lait, but I haven't seen it used in ages.

The first time I ever heard it mentioned it was called dusty pink (this would have been in about 1975) so that's the version I've always used, but I've seen and heard both versions lots of times since then.

Dusky
And that dress is gorgeous!