[net.women] Why to women cut their hair?

sebb@pyuxss.UUCP (S Badian) (09/23/83)

	I believe women cut their hair when they get older because
it looks better. Long hair (especially very long hair) is not some-
thing that every women can carry. Some women (young and old) just
don't have the face for long hair. Just because all the models have
long, gorgeous locks doesn't mean the rest of us mortals can carry
it off. 
	I am not so sure that marriage has anything to do with women
cutting their hair. Or if entering the corporate world had anything
to do with it. I'd like to hear some opinions about long hair and
how becoming it is on older women. My mother has always said it
has it be a very special face that can carry long hair well. That
goes for young and older women, but is more so in older women.
I'd like to hear from men on this since my bias on this subject is
that men find long hair amazingly sexy. Is that true across the
board? Won't change my mind; I've had short hair since I was 18 and
don't plan on changing now at the ripe old age of 22.
				Sharon Badian
				BTL Piscataway
				pyuxss!sebb

shacklet@ittral.UUCP (Cliff Shackelton) (09/26/83)

When my wife and I were married, she kept her hair long untill we had
our first son. At that time she cut it, saying that the baby would pull
it and spit up on it an so forth. Well, it looked awfull! She tried getting
a perm (it came out looking like Shirley Temple) and doing it all different
kinds of ways but she fianally let it grow back out. I **love** long blonde
hair and my wife is 28 but looks 17. It has done wonders for our sex life.
Some women can wear long hair and some can't. I didn't pressure my wife
into growing her hair back out. I feel that is the kind of decision one
has to make for oneself and be comfortable with. All in all I'm glad the
way things turned out.

                         C. Shackelton (ittral!)