Hundreds of hot pink shorts, pink T-shirts and pink overalls designed to humiliate and shame convicted bikies in Queensland prisons will be sold for charity.

The stash of leftover pink attire was recently discovered at a storehouse in the Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre.

In 2013, the Newman government tasked women prisoners with manufacturing the pink bikie jumpsuits for the men.

Forcing inmates to wear pink was an idea first implemented in a handful of prisons in the United States.

It was one of the policies announced by the former LNP government in conjunction with its tough anti-bikie laws.

"Telling them to wear pink is going to be embarrassing for them," premier Campbell Newman said in October 2013.

Nine months later, the idea was dropped by the LNP after it lost the Stafford by-election.

Shortly after Labor took office this year, newly-appointed Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller discovered the pink clothing and material during a tour of the correctional facility.

"I have never seen this at all in Australia," she said.

"The [idea] for the pink overalls and pink attire came directly from the government.

"I just think it was a brain snap; it was a stupid and ridiculous idea.

The leftover pink fabric and cotton used to manufacture the bikie prison uniforms. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

"I don't know of any evidence whereby bikies or anyone else would have thought that they wouldn't commit crimes because they may have to wear a pink jumpsuit for heaven's sake."

Only 27 men accused of bikie-related crimes were forced to wear the pink clothes before the policy was ditched.

Everything but their underwear had to be pink.

The experiment cost $10,000 and resulted in the manufacture of 555 pink T-shirts, 125 pink shorts, 60 pink overalls, five pink trousers and 300 metres of leftover cotton material.

Even the zippers and thread used in the manufacturing was hot pink.

The uniforms will now be sold off after a directive from the Minister, with proceeds going to charities such as the National Breast Cancer Foundation.