Age limit for long hair?

Plain and simple: NO age limit. why? because the most important thing is that YOU'RE happy with your hair.

Dave,

There are so many men and women with gorgeous white long hair...I hope to be one of them eventually! I have plenty of gray right now but do not color it.

I think our elders with long white/gray hair look stunning!

Of course, I don't feel that there is any age limit to having long hair. I didn't think that anybody here would. But I have known people who do think that there is a general age limit, so the concept strikes me as preposterous. I think this myth stems from dogma which was perpetuated to ensure that all women were coralled into salons before they became black sheep for life. I'd like to think that the myth is dead but I know I'm talking to the converted here. That's why I asked if anybody here knows any people who still believe the myth.

I do. As I get older I have a person in my life that insists that I should cut my hair even shorter than it is!! But my kids (who grew up with a mom with long hair and miss it) and my hubby (who insist I grow it out!!!) are all very supportive.

My hubby says he wants me to have beautiful long hair, not a frizzy bubble perm when I am old, and somehow that just sounds nicer.

I did work with a woman who was 55. She told me that she began growing her hair out five years earlier from a boyish cut (in her words) and it was to her tailbone and silvery white. Absolutely beautiful.

My mother was in her sixties and had waist length hair, that story is on another post. She cut it and regretted it soon after.

As for me, I hope I acheive my goal. And I do plan on keeping it long.

wittils

Jacqui that's a lovely story--thanks for sharing it!

It is so strange to me how drastically hair lengths change with the environment. I graduated from college in December. On campus, some gals had short hair but most still kept it long like in high school (myself included.) Now I work for a fairly large corporation where I am--no joke--the youngest full-time employee at headquarters. I am 22, and almost everyone else in my department is at least 30. I can only think of five other people in this building of more than 900 employees that have shoulder-length or longer hair. This seems almost foreign to me after going to school for more than a decade surrounded by long hair.

For awhile I was contemplating cutting my hair because I'm curious what it's like, but I've decided against that and am letting it grow (aiming for four inches past shoulders.) While it certainly marks me as a youngster in this environment, I embrace that. I like the look of shock on peoples' faces when I tell them I graduated high school four short years ago. Throws 'em for a loop! :-)

There is no age limit to long hair as there is no age limit to being beautiful.

I’ve stopped listening to the voices that would cut a woman down after her 30th birthday.
Like, all you are is something utilitarian for those around you and a projection of their ugliness and negative approach to life.

Show me a limit and I’ll help you defeat it.
Show me one who would define limits and I’ll show you a liar and loser.

There are no limits. Period.

Uzi

Hi! This is my first visit to this site and I'm glad to have found this topic.
I am 57 years old and my hair is almost waist length. I didn't plan to grow it this long, however. It's been a matter of economics because my hair grows very fast and when it's been short, I've needed a shaping by the end of 3 weeks. It is also very stubbornly straight so I perm due to the tendonitis in my lower right arm limiting consistent usage of shaping during the drying process.
I have been complimented by both men and women on my long hair, although I've noticed it's only the women who themselves are confident who compliment me.
Both of my great grandmothers had long hair to their dying days well into the 80's, one knotting it at the top of her head, the other in braids (as was the custom in the Native American culture at that time). So NO, I don't believe in an age limit to long hair.
Short skirts -- now that's another issue, even though I still wear a size 8!

Hi Dave! If anyone thinks less of me because of my hair it's entirely behind my back, because I've never seen the slightest sign of it. My boss was just marvelling the other day how "long" my hair is getting (which is ironic, because shoulder-length is the shortest it's been since I was 15.)

No one really says much about my hair (or anyone else's, for that matter.) It's just there. I don't think short-haired women envy it because they might assume (correctly, in my case) that longer hair requires more maintenance than a close crop. Not true for everyone but certainly for me--I don't even want to begin calculating what I spend on conditioner yearly.

What people do notice, however, is my youth. I was at a charity fundraiser dinner last weekend and this mid-40s lawyer mentioned how my alma mater was once a great force in collegiate basketball "probably right around the time you were born." I asked when that would be. His answer? 1976. I laughed and clapped my hands with glee because that would make me a full five years older than my actual age.

So while some people sometimes think being young in a corporate setting only sets you up for degradation and grunt work, it's all in the way you conduct yourself. Show your maturity in decision-making and it won't matter how long your hair is. I will continue to grow my hair because it's unique yet not a hinderance to my career. AND I like being able to wear a ponytail! I consider myself lucky to work with a corporation that values respect whole-heartedly.

Dave

You mentioned the bobbed robots of the corporate world.....
Well they must have downgraded the software in the corporate androids I work amongst, as I am surrounded by women sporting what I can only describe as "short, back'n'sides with wisps".
Just marginally different from the male androids.

Aaaaarrrggggg!!!!

We recently had some training on body language and learnt about "mirroring" behaviours in order to make others feel comfortable and create a positive impression. Then I looked around me and saw the sameness and blandness of hair-cut and clothing.
I guess that class was unnecessary in some respects, huh?

There is also the fear of standing out and being an individual at work. Like a big rock being thrown into a pond. You just know that they will pull you out and chuck you elsewhere....

Getting back to the topic, the older I get, the more colleagues and friends seem compelled to tell me that there is something wrong with growing my hair long.
They are visibly irritated, annoyed and in some cases, offended. They are not able to mind their own business, keep their insulting opinions to themselves or respect my wishes.
I have also been told I shouldn't wear bright colours as I get older!!

Even in polite company, my third finger is starting to get a lot of use.

oops!