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Listen Up, Ladies: Long, Lush Locks Lure Lovers
Reuters ^ | June 27, 2003 | E. J. Mundell

Posted on 06/28/2003 3:18:42 PM PDT by demlosers

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To: VermiciousKnid
Long hair, while it does take longer to rinse after shampooing is MUCH easier to deal with.

I agree 100%! I have thick, wavy hair that is growing out to my shoulders from a shorter cut. The short cut drove me NUTS - constantly had to have it trimmed to keep the shape, it needed more fussing with to make it look good, plus because it didn't have the weight to pull it straight the waves went beserk and I had odd cowlicks all over my head.

I never blow dry anymore unless I'm going out at night - I used to but it dried my hair out too much. I just wash and towel it dry in the AM, and it air-drys in the car on the way to work. It helps if you turn the blower on and aim all the ducts at your head (or open the window on the highway) ::grin::.

It's only a problem in the winter - up here (VT) it will freeze if I go out of the house with it wet. Sometimes I do it anyway....

LQ

101 posted on 06/28/2003 6:45:34 PM PDT by LizardQueen
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To: Sir Gawain
Brooke


102 posted on 06/28/2003 6:51:07 PM PDT by wardaddy (DIVERSITY IS BEST SERVED EARNED)
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To: wardaddy
I saw a playboy playmate that had super long hair that was braided and so long that she had a macrame style braid all the way down her back that was dived in two at her waist and then used as a belt thru the loops in her jeans and a big old mercedes hubcap sized rodeo buckle was rubberbanded to it .......Debra Jo something........ I'm bad with names when my blood flow is diverted.......

Stay Safe WD !!

103 posted on 06/28/2003 7:03:36 PM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Katya
My grandmothers generation and my father in laws generation are ripe with traditional women, in their 70's and 80's with short hair.

In later years, hair-length is not that important.

Did they have long hair when young?

Also, is there a reason they wear their hair short, and how short is it?

When I say short, I mean short: above the ears.

104 posted on 06/28/2003 7:20:11 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Desdemona
Sorry, there's no versatility with short hair. And it's way too much work.

I never knew that short hair was so much work!

But then, I never dated a short-haired woman! LOL.

105 posted on 06/28/2003 7:24:00 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: wardaddy
Yuck.
106 posted on 06/28/2003 7:26:41 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: martin_fierro
I always liked Laurie's do.
107 posted on 06/28/2003 7:28:56 PM PDT by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: Dusty Rose
Short hair is definitely low maintainance, with a good cut.

Well, someone agrees with me, at least.

108 posted on 06/28/2003 7:38:38 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Antoninus; JoeSixPack1
With a little* effort, that woman could have her way with me.

*Read: VERY little effort

109 posted on 06/28/2003 7:40:20 PM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: Age of Reason
Too much work or not, short hair will always be "cute", while long hair will always be sexy.....
110 posted on 06/28/2003 7:44:41 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Desdemona
[short hair's] way too much work

Our exchange started me thinking where the idea that short hair was less work entered my mind.

I suddenly realized I formed that opinion by observing how much more women bothered about their long hair compared to how little I bothered about my short hair (I'm a guy).

I never paid much attention to short-haired women; I never saw them in similar circumstances to the long-haired women I have known, to see that some might fuss even more about their hair than the long-haired women of my acquaintance.

111 posted on 06/28/2003 7:49:06 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: cincinnati65
long hair will always be sexy,

Even severly pulled back in a bun?

112 posted on 06/28/2003 7:51:23 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: chance33_98
Wow, you got that one in early. I have a certain unexplained and strong attraction to redheads too. :-D
113 posted on 06/28/2003 7:53:52 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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To: ladyinred
I have been both, and I can't see all that much difference!

Me too. The most dramatic change in how men ever treated me occurred whenever I dyed my hair red. There's something about a redhead, apparently. But I've gone back to my natural brown, nevertheless.

114 posted on 06/28/2003 7:56:13 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Let them, like, eat cake, or whatever.)
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To: Age of Reason
"....cause when we get behind.....closed doors.....and she let's her hair.....hang......down......"

Hair in a severe bun is waiting to be let down. What? No prim and proper schoolteacher fantasies?

115 posted on 06/28/2003 7:58:07 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Age of Reason
Think back to all the shows on television made popular in the 50's and 60's...all those traditional "moms" had short hair styles. It's a style, and the grannie generation still wears it.
I'd argue that the 60's and 70's brought back long hair. In fact, many claimed long hair was revolutionary and freeing. Heck, I know plenty of older babyboomer/ex-hippie generation women who still wear long hair. It may be grey but it's long. I'd say they are the antithesis of your traditional woman/long hair thesis.
116 posted on 06/28/2003 8:04:10 PM PDT by Katya
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To: demlosers
It depends on the woman. Though I hardly ever find very short or very long hair attractive.
117 posted on 06/28/2003 8:05:07 PM PDT by MattAMiller (Down with the Mullahs! Peace, freedom, and prosperity for Iran.)
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To: Katya
. I grew my hair back out years ago....because I didn't have the time to maintain a shorter styled cut and style. I'm also very non-traditional.

In at least one of my posts on this thread, I had written the following:

"Hair communicates (though one must take into consideration a woman's entire appearance, considering how she would look with shorter hair as compared to wearing long hair up--while also taking into consideration whether she has long hair but is wearing it up because she is appears engaged in a certain activity, to accurately guess what her hair communicates)."

Note that in the above, I said one must consider hair-length not by itself, but in light of other aspects of woman's appearance.

Those other aspects include the way she is dressed, what she is doing at the time one observes her, whether she uses makeup, what kind of makeup, and how much, and one must observe other aspects of her hair: If long, has she treated it with chemicals, sprayed it with glue, puffed it out (big hair), or otherwise messed with it unnaturally?

For example: To me, if a woman I see in the street appears from her apparel to be working in an office that day, if her hair is long, I would expect a traditional woman to wear it up or pulled back--not free to wantonly fall over her shoulders or eyes.

118 posted on 06/28/2003 8:09:55 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: cincinnati65
What? No prim and proper schoolteacher fantasies?

Hey, I was just asking about your thinking--it had nothing to do with how I think.

Up or down or back or bun--in the right context, long hair on a woman is better than short hair.

119 posted on 06/28/2003 8:13:56 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
Long hair takes longer to wash and dry.

Who says you have to dry it? I am strictly "wash and wear."

120 posted on 06/28/2003 8:16:12 PM PDT by rabidralph (First Aid to libs? Coulterize the wound.)
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