Gngirl, my wife is almost 44, and she has spectacular hair 3" above her waist now. I, too, had once bought into the nonsense that women over 35 should probably start thinking about going short. My mom had said it so many times that I believed it w/o thinking much about it. After all, before you reach 35, you know that age is never going to come anyway. (lol) So, when Sue first cut her hair short in '96, I accepted it as inevitable. Plus, her pixie looked "cute", so I put the idea of her with long hair on a dusty shelf, never to be considered again. But, a strange thing happened. After a couple years, she decided that she needed enough hair to cover her ears and neck in winter, and a bit to pull oo her face during the summer. Anyway, thanks to my encouragement, it's ALL BAACK! Don't take my word for it. Look around at those women who are older than you, and notice that those who keep their hair well-groomed usually look SO much younger than their same age counterparts who wear the trendy chops. It's not that you are trying to recapture your youth! It's that you wish to remain the sexiest woman you can be, whatever your age. (Aren't those who tell you that you must wear short hair really telling you, "Face it, the bloom is off your rose, so get a short haircut to show you've accepted your new "maturity", i.e., unattractiveness?) Rubbish to them! (lol) Good luck, Bob
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Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii gngirl...I'am over 40 and I HAD long hair until a week ago! I had to get it cut well...extremely short... because of a chemical "Hair Straightener" screw up (my bad)...but that's another story on another message board. I think it's wrong that society has stereotyped wome over 40 to have short, colored, and permed hair and even worse to have women over 50 with the short, blue, permed hair. Such a negative emphasis on greying hair and age has made women leery about growing their hair long. I do my own thing and march to the beat of my own drummer! It's all about you and your own preference! I'am planning on letting my hair grow back long and to my ankels...and if's it grey...well...it's grey. Life goes on...and I assure you that I don't loose any sleep over what society thinks about me.
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Don't wear white after Labor day..... this sounds similar in the fact that it is totally asinine as a rule. Trust me, one project I have is as of the 8th of September, I want to find a suit, and dress in as much fricking white as I can :P
Do what you want. It's always more fun that way.
I hate all of the following and lots more : Fundamentalists, racists, sexists, fascists, ageists (people saying seniors = senile , kids = stupid , 18 = immature or a combo of them), and bigots for causes yet to receive their own designation.
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gngirl... I agree with both StyleGuy and DMB61. Had I had the opportunity to respond first, I probably would have written something along similar lines -- but my words probably would have been a bit more edgy.
Well, I'll still go ahead and be blunt...
This "rule" is merely a widely-propagated and firmly-held... MYTH! It amazes me how some people willingly accept such ridiculous statements as being some irrefutable truth, and then feel they must abide by its tenets out of entirely misplaced fears. IMO those who feed the myth by advising others to adhere to it ought to be ashamed of themselves.
I don't feel strongly about this topic, do I?
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I think women and men should wear their hair what ever length they want, as long as it looks good and is in good condition. I also feel that society has told women how to wear their hair for to long now. That should be up to the person and only that person. not society.
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The way things are currently, short hair for young women in their teens and early twenties is more popular than it has ever been, and longer hair for more mature women is also gaining in popularity.
The real trend is toward personal expression where the individual can make decisions independent of traditional rules.
I just turned 33 December of 2003. and my hair is to my bra strap. I love long hair but some people say when you get to be 40 you should go short, why? I was just woundering what everybody else thought about long hair and age. Thanks
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