By the time of devision of longhaired breeds into Persians and half longhaired cats at the begiinning of 1900s there wasn't any need in different indication of breed within the category of longhaired till the appearance of Himalayan Persins as breed in 1950s. Bicolors and Calico in British and Americn herd-books rated as non-recognized colors and had a ban for the participation in shows. CFA was the first who attributed Bicolors to recognized (accepted) for the registration. It was common practice of cat organizations in all breeds, that allowed the registration of cats, which was of pure origin, but non-recognized color.

The exact period of time, when Bicolors and Calico were difficult to show, is difficult to find out, but in 1933 Evelyn Buckworth-Herne-Soame have written in his impressions from the exhibition about Tortoiseshell on White cat: 'This is the most vivid and charming animal. It is a pity that there is no bigger number of such...' At the same year first white-black individuals, which public liked, appeared on the shows and it was accepted to bring bicolored in any other color.

However, after 1933 Bicolors and Calico were officially removed from the shows in the USA right up to 1955 when by the efforts of Dorothy Anderson Calico was approved anew in CFA. Only in 1971 other bicolored colors were accepted. Herd-books show that these colors is saved in the genotype during these 22 years of oblivion, because the gene of white spottines often masked with white.

The decade of 1980ies made a revolution in bicolored colors and in May of 1991 the article of Anthology of Persian cats was published, devoted to these colors, which embraced many features and requorememts for these variation of Persians. At the first time cats of these colors got to the catalogues of winners.

But 80ies brought not only the flash of Bicolors' popularity, but fixed extreme type, in which bicolored Presians became really amazing.

Fast increasing sccesses of bicolored cats made them popular and enough widespread. Since 1991 Bicolors and Kaliko were singled out into separate exhibition classes and divided from Solids for breeding 'within themselves'.

Leading nurseries and ancestors of Persian breeding, specialized on the colors Bicolor became 'Anz' and 'Pajean', breeded first national winners and hundreds Grand-Champions of CFA. Practically all modern lines of Persian Bicolors go back to these nurseries.

Future

Future of Bicolors, of course, is obvolute with the secret and consists of more number of questions than of answers.

CFA holds a discussion about separation of colors Tabby with white into separate divisions for the participation in the exhibitions. Probably, orange-eyed, different-eyed and blue-eyed Vans will stand separately , if their number is enough.

Which changes can we expect in the attitude of the standard of Bicolors? Councillors of the breed Persian Bicolor and Calico of CFA voted down more than once any changes of the standard, which remained practically the same, beginning since 1988. During the 80-ies some bicolored animals with old-fashioned type or lack of white in the color gained titles of Grand-Champions, because this type was developed and fixed. Now this is sooner an exception than a rule, because increase of animals level dictates the necessity of full correspondence to the standard. Incrbicolor3.jpgease of sale of cats to the countries of European market maens the necessity to pay an attention of owners of CFA on standards of color in phelinological centers of other countries.

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