Wignatia on Nostr: In better times young women wore their hair long and loose, to highlight their fresh ...

In better times young women wore their hair long and loose, to highlight their fresh beauty, and started putting it up once they got married. My grandmother (born at the turn of the last century) kept her hair long but always put it up until the 40s, when it became vogue to cut it above the shoulders and have it set at the beauty salon every week. It was a class thing as much as anything else, showing you had the time and money to do that. I always went with her to her appointment and I thought it was a fascinating place. My mom cut her hair short and kept it that way to the end, but hers was very curly and she found it easier to manage short. She was so beautiful it didn't detract from her. I am doing that GenX thing where I don't dye my gray, and keep it semi-long. I wear it loose about 30% of the time, mostly I put it up, so I'm coming full circle.