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last friday, the oprah show was dedicated to the symbolic mutilation of male and female longhairs. in between commercials she showed a number of women who said that they had been growing their hair for dozens of years. their "makeovers" resulted in shoulder length, generic do's. several males, two in particular had mid-back lengths, were shorn to very short male do's. of course all of the before shots were worse case photos and the makeover results were neat and fashionable. this kind of strategy obviously makes the point that long hairs are messy and out of fashion.
one of the two males with longer hair had beautiful well shaped naturally, curly ringlets. his hair was cut to less than 3 inches. what a shame!
tom
Dear tom: i just thank God I did not see that show. Otherwise, I probably would have vomited out of disgust. What's wrong with Ophrah?
In the case of women, the attack is not so dramatic- I hear all the time that short cut hair was/is back for women. However, I mostly see long haired women: shoulder length, back length, mid-back length, you
name it. The "short haired" women you see are mostly middle age women. And their "short styles" are way too long for most men- Any
man having his hair trimmed like a short haired woman would be classified as having long hair. Do you see my point?
Oprah sure did like Omar Wasow's long hair though (He was on an earlier show).
Oprah sure did like Omar Wasow's long hair though (He was on an earlier show).
Fashion is at best just a way to force people to renew their
costly wardrobes to make certain people richer. However for
men's hair it has been e f.cking rollercoaster ride since the 70's.
Mant people are lemmings or sheep doing what 'everybody' does
and TV spews trash like long haired men having their hair cut
in front of an audience.
In the Disco era of the 70's, after long hair going 'mainstream' in the mid
seventies (here in Montreal).. mindsets made it such that men
with long hair became outcasts. When it returned in the early nintees
I told colleagues at work growing it back, why they did it using the
reasoning that prevailed in the short hair and efficient 80s...
I had answers like its neat, its in, etc....
Why can't just personal taste prevail over the frigging fashion?
Today I have yet to have negative comments about my hair,
people of both sexes still find it great (as opposed to when I
was in High School in 1977 when I was teased for not cutting
my hair in a silly disco style).
At 40 still long haired since 1977... and will use the f word if anyone
mentiones me to cut my hair in the name of the other f word, that
is fashion... which rhymes with fascism.
Long hair Hippy in Montreal
ANOTHER makeover show on Oprah? I saw her show once last month in which several people were given makeovers. One was a middle-aged longhaired dude - a high school teacher - and the other was a woman whose hair went down almost to the back of her knees - said she hadn't cut her hair in something like over 20 years, and the ends were *so* ratty that I could believe it!
The man wasn't particularly handsome to begin with, so his haircut/makeover didn't succeed in making him look *better*, just different. The woman, on the other hand, was transformed. All that loonngg hair (like I said, it was waaayyy past her ass) was dragging her down. The makeover took years off that gal!