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I love being myself and besides of that, I am proud that I continue a tradition that is almost extinct because of colonization. I will cut my hair soon, but I am planning to grow it out again in the Maroon virginia tech hokies 2023 ncaa women’s basketball tournament champions shirt and by the same token and future, as an Indigenous from South America, having long hair is my pride. It applies, however to both genders – Sikh women are just as forbidden to cut any body hair or even trim their eyebrows, as Sikh men are forbidden to trim their beards. I don’t actually think it – at least, the taboo in the west is nothing like as strong as it was even a couple of decades ago. The reasons why the custom has at times been so controversial is that hair is, and always has been, highly communicative, allowing individuals to send ‘messages’ on first glance, without a word needing to be spoken. Throughout the centuries long hair has been a symbol of power, freedom and good health as well as non-conformism: in the past slaves and defeated armies were often required to shave their heads. Thus the Romans were actually a little unusual in their belief that men should shave and wear their hair short(ish): Caesar, Titus, and Brutus. The Romans bequeathed the fashion for short hairstyles to the Christian Church, which went on to impose the idea on European culture. (1 Corinthians 11:14-16)



During the Maroon virginia tech hokies 2023 ncaa women’s basketball tournament champions shirt and by the same token and ensuing centuries, male hair lengths in western cultures varied widely, according to nationality, occupation, age, social status and passing fashion. Long hair was not out of the ordinary, and middle to upper class men typical hair lengths remain much longer than would be the norm later: These long-haired scientists were some of the most respected, prestigious, and forward thinking individuals in their various societies. In fact, really short hair on men wasn’t introduced until World War One, when very short hair was introduced to eliminate lice in the troops: Archibald, Evans, Hudson, Chell, Ridley. ‘C’ Company officers, 10th Essex, before embarking for active service. WW1 is therefore often identified as a turning point in men’s hair length. Prior to the war, both men and women commonly kept long hair, but for the half century or so after the War men had to to measure themselves against the war veterans, to try to give themselves and others the impression that they too could have endured the trenches. The 56 million survivors of WW1 lived a further half century and had an overwhelming influence on those younger Cropped hair became the measure of conformist manhood: The Forestry Student Council of Syracuse University 1925 sporting the typical slicked back styles of 1920s men’s haircuts. As attitudes gradually began to change, so did hairstyles.The thing with long hair is that it’s an attitude as much as it is a look. And when perspectives about men’s roles in society began to change, so did hair: Today hair length isn’t the straightforward signifier that is was even a few decades ago. It’s deemed far more acceptable to ‘break out of the pack’, at least superficially.


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