Long hair, Age and Walmart/Grocery store

it's odd every time i go to walmart i see a couple of women with long hair. the other day at target i saw women with long hair.

maybe because you can get high dosage of biotin at walmart for only 2 bucks? just a thought

Oh, Dave, and here I thought I wouldn't have to do any critical thinking this weekend!

I thought the K-mart, etc. phenomenon was just an Indiana thing!

Hope you are all having a lovely, relaxing weekend! I am, even though it's been raining for two days straight! (I would hate to waste all the picnic food!)


Jean

I dont know why I cant seem to log in today...anyways, its not just that they shop there but rather that they WORK there! At least thats how it seems to me. Plus places like the movies and the mall do have a high concentration of people and yet I see fewer very long haired people.

And this has nothing to do with support, its just an observation, but it has to do with long hair.

So there!

Sorry, Im in a weird mood today.

princessmonica wrote: maybe because you can get high dosage of biotin at walmart for only 2 bucks? just a thought

LOL!

Erinlynn, I always get compliments on my consignment and thrift store clothes, too! I always tell people where I bought them. I should probably keep my mouth shut!

Hm, I´m thinking about this, beeing a long way from any of the american states. I´m also a thrift shopper... And I shop at Willy´s, a best-price food chain. I live for my books and my art.

I once had a friend studying at a university in southern Sweden saying that you can tell from the way students dress and wear their hair, what subjects they major in. Well, here, every student wears goretex, to keep warm! But maybe hair, as well as other aspects of the way we look is somehow slightly class related. For example, in Piteå, the neighbouring town, there are a lot more pricy clothing stores, because it´s a more "bourgoise" town, where people have worked in trade, rather than at the steel plant, like us in Luleå. Maybe one could say something about different hair fashions as well, maybe hairdressers have a theory on this.

Yes, I agree. I think this subject is very well chosen. I´m as obsessed with split ends and conditioner as the next guy on this sight, but sometimes it´s interesting to look beyond the actual hair and reflect on the long hair in society.

Fact is, in the western world, long hair is a very rare thing. As society is becoming more commercial, secular and people move around more, money becomes more important as the means to "buy oneself into" a tribe of ones choice. It´s all about looks and trends and manners. Long hair will never be a trend, it cannot be sold or bought or accuired in the short time that a trend lasts these days. Therefore, really long hair will often be percieved, even if not intended, as an upturned finger on group values and codes. And, as many participants on this forum and others relating to long hair have testified, there is hair related abuse going on in families, workplaces and elsewhere. Like in Simsons days, if your strength seems to be in your hair (beauty, confidence), that´s what controlling, power-needy people will try to take away from you.

I believe that "long hair sightings" and reflections on long haired people is us, in a way, looking for our "lost tribe". One must always try to figure out one´s place in the world and one´s place depends on where everybody else is. Long haired people will check out long haired people as much as Chevrolet lovers will check out each other´s cars. In a spiritual sense, we may even be looking for ourselves. Or maybe it´s just support.

WEll this is a very funny thread because guess what! Over here we have some at Kmart, IGA grocery store doing demos and Costco.

Dave - You are right...I am in the wrong part of town!

I too notice this phenomenon of hair "districts" within certain stores in town. The Walmart is chock full of long haired women, while the Mall is more "trendy" and short. I attribute it to the money. I am making an observation here, not an opinion....I have noticed that the more affluent, the shorter the hair. This is, of course, in women of 30+...I am not sure why though....ANyone?jacqui

Very insightful comments, Viktoria.

Kris, not only can grow "that type of hair" someday, you will grow that type of hair someday.

Good question, Jacqui. The money or the short haircuts, which begets which? Sort of like trying to answer the question, "which came first -- the chicken or the egg?" We could guess that possession of the money enabled the "purchase" of the haircuts, but basic haircuts are extremely inexpensive (in other words, lack of funds don't preclude people from getting short haircuts). I think the hairstyles/lengths are more a matter of choices. Why these choices pan out as you notice, I still don't know.