And the worst part was so many dumpy, frumpy, dirty hippie females.
Yes, but the “commercial” hippie females (the well-groomed or at least clean ones) had such beautiful long hair that we don’t see anymore. Even the few young women who have long hair now, it’s considered “really long” if it’s bra strap length, and they all get the ends blunt cut. The hippie girls, some of them anyway, had really really long hair-waist length and longer (I was never a hippie, too young for that era, but my mother wouldn’t let is cut our hair and we could all sit on our hair), and they had what I’ve learned are called “fairy tale” ends-that is, ends which are just as they grew, not blunt-cut or shaped, just different lengths because hair grows at different rates and tends to thin out as it ages, and of course the ends of really long hair that doesn’t get regularly trimmed or blunt cut (whether straight, v-shape or U-shape) will be really old. I love really long hair with those “fairy tale ends” on young women, and I never see them anymore.