To wonder why do few girls have short hair nowadays

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That’s it really. When I was at high school (80s), half the girls had short hair. However, I can only think of one girl my DDs (who have long hair) have known through school who had short hair and she has long hair now. When did short hair fall out of favour?

Floogal

Depends how short.

If you mean as short as Naga Munchetty, then no. She rocks that hairstyle. But unfortunately, only very pretty woman can pull off short hair.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

What utter nonsense. Nobody says anything equivalent about men with short hair.

I do think women should be allowed to do what they want/look how they want, but that comparison/analogy is a bit daft.

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@felulageller

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GetTheFlockOutOfHere

Do you mind not being so rude about my appearance. I struggle with what nature has handed down to me as it is.

Feeling pretty smug to learn that once my buzz cut grows out to “bra strap length” I’m automatically going to look like a slim, foxy minx and nobody will EVER notice my mahoosive arse, flabby jaw or big nose. Noted.

@CountessOlenka

Girls are much fatter these days. You need cheekbones to look good with short hair.

Bagging the stupidest comment of the day award at 1 am is no mean feat…

Tis quite true re long hair being endemic. I think it’s party as male and female roles have come closer together it’s a way to differentiate, and partly that as we’ve become a more youth/beauty/sex orientated society long hair ticks those boxes. Plus for older women is a refusal to be pushed into an old fashioned sexless box, and for little girls is nostalgic for a more innocent era

I have noticed shorter hair beginning to creep in - rarely proper short, but more bobs -

I was thinking this the other day. The 80s, going to get my hair cut. Off to buy a hair magazine for a 'style' . Usually short with long tufty top and loads of product I could not replicate at home.

Coming home looking nothing like said style and hair too short and staying off school as I was upset. 😆

What age group are you talking about?

Long hair is a lot less work and maintenance. Just a trim every now and then, that can be even done at home. A short style, especially one with a very defined shape , is a lot more work and expense.

As for the 80's, I had a short cut. I had no choice over it. There was no individuality or style or breaking the mould. It was just what my mum wanted and as soon as I could decide I've let my hair grow and kept it that way. Same for the majority of my peers.

For the older girls,young women. They're just following trends and fashions. Just like you did. I don't think you can sneer at them and judge them unless you never had a Rachel cut, or a mullet,or a perm or whatever was trendy when you were growing up. It might seem different and edgy and individual now but back then it was just as much of following the herd as long hair is now.

@hangrylady

"It's depressing. 90% of girls at the local high school wear tiny skirts and have long, straightened hair. They seem to spend most of their time pulling at their skirts to stop their underwear showing - they look incredibly uncomfortable. So why the tiny skirts and the long, straight hair - conformity? So the boys will notice them? Dunno, but it definitely feels retrogressive"

Absolute bollocks. I remember in the 90s wearing a miniscule skirt for school and getting a spiral perm. What about in the 60s when miniskirts and beehives were in fashion? Everyone had the same uniform look then. If you actually look at young women on a night out now, most of them are wearing trainers/flats, unlike the high heels we used to totter about in back in the day, so if anything girls are now putting comfort first.

Beehives weren't the thing when I hit my teens in the 60s. Short cut like Twiggy was what we all wanted. Vidal Sassoon and his very angular geometric cuts. Maybe beehives were early 60s but my memories of mid 60s is Mary Quant for clothes and Vidal Sassoon for hair.

We had minis but also midis and maxis so skirt length varied alot over the 60s. The mini didn't become a thing till the mid 60s.

@ldontWanna

What age group are you talking about?

Long hair is a lot less work and maintenance. Just a trim every now and then, that can be even done at home. A short style, especially one with a very defined shape , is a lot more work and expense.

As for the 80's, I had a short cut. I had no choice over it. There was no individuality or style or breaking the mould. It was just what my mum wanted and as soon as I could decide I've let my hair grow and kept it that way. Same for the majority of my peers.

For the older girls,young women. They're just following trends and fashions. Just like you did. I don't think you can sneer at them and judge them unless you never had a Rachel cut, or a mullet,or a perm or whatever was trendy when you were growing up. It might seem different and edgy and individual now but back then it was just as much of following the herd as long hair is now.

You try brushing a 3 year olds bum length hair when it has been dipped in everything from her breakfast to the paint at nursery. Nothing easy about it and a 3 year old shouldn't be worrying about fashion.

Baffled at people thinking short hair needs work. I am the lowest maintenance woman in the world. I had a good cut (only real expense) once every couple of months, wash it, shove a bit of wax on it and that's that. It's like anything, if you make it hard work, then it is.

@AlphabetAerobics

Feeling pretty smug to learn that once my buzz cut grows out to “bra strap length” I’m automatically going to look like a slim, foxy minx and nobody will EVER notice my mahoosive arse, flabby jaw or big nose. Noted.

Good for you, I hope you enjoy it. I think it might have to be a bit longer than bra strap length to cover your arse but I might be a pessimist.

@EightWheelGirl

I don’t know why so many people are offended by PP pointing out that the youth are fatter now than in the 80s. It’s an indisputable fact.

No one is.

It’s just it has fuck all to do with hair length

@Kennykenkencat

GetTheFlockOutOfHere

Do you mind not being so rude about my appearance. I struggle with what nature has handed down to me as it is.

Yeah nice try @Kennykenkencat.

You make nasty remarks about women, with (in YOUR words) big fat noses and fat jawlines, and then make out you're on about yourself when you're called out. Pull the other one!

It's been a long term trend.
My mother and grandmother associated long hair with elderly aunts and being rather old fashioned. Then the 70s hippies happened and there was more of a bounce back for fashionable short cuts in the 80s UK with shaved bits coming at the trendier end despite bouffants for the young mainstream US influenced.
Then decades of long straight curtains.🤷

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Floogal

Depends how short.

If you mean as short as Naga Munchetty, then no. She rocks that hairstyle. But unfortunately, only very pretty woman can pull off short hair.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

What utter nonsense. Nobody says anything equivalent about men with short hair.

I do think women should be allowed to do what they want/look how they want, but that comparison/analogy is a bit daft.

I agree woman should do what they like with their own hair, imposing it on young children is something else.

For the first time in ages I have in the last couple of years seem more short cuts among the young but it's not mainstream.

@NoddyMcdoddy - You are so wrong! But its the boys in my gs's secondary school. His friend was put in isolation last week for sporting what the school deemed a mullet. Also, there was a recent MN thread involving football where a player had that shaved at the sides and permed on top look, yes a perm. My other gs sports this look because of his wavy hair but hates it and spends his time getting it cut off.

I agree op, I see very few girls with short hair these days. Guess it's a fashion thing. When I was a school many many years ago a few of the girls had a pixie cut and to be honest it looked great. Better than the rather greasy, lank look as we didn't wash our hair daily then.

Naga rocks her short hair , but on me it would look ridiculous.
I did have shorter hair in the 80s , but it didn't really suit me to be honest ( the perms were even worse though !)
I like my hair slightly longer now as I find it easier to deal with once it's dry, being one length also helps too. It's the happiest I've ever been with my hair and I've had it all lengths and colours over the years. Hiding the Gray is a battle these days as that is aging ( on me anyway )

Bit like asking why flapper dresses and cloche hats are never seen around the high street any more.

It's fashion. There's no other reason.

I had very short hair in the late 60s/70s it was the fashion then. At other times I wore my hair long.

Currently long hair is the fashion.

I'm old and keep mine short.

I think Claire Balding and Steph McGovern rock their short cuts too.

My mum had a beehive in the 60s - there's a great photo of her with friends at the seaside, leaning against the sea wall, all sporting matching beehives.

But in my lifetime, 70s onwards, she's always worn it short.

Long hair is just expected of girls now. It's sad that many feel unable to vary from this and express individuality, but as posters point out, any variation leads to constant questions about your "identity".

My almost 13yo son has waist-length hair, and since starting secondary school has been constantly asked if he's a girl, or wants to be a girl. He knew this would happen, but he wants long hair because he likes long hair. He's into Metallica and heavy metal, so he does actually know quite a number of adult men with very long hair too.

@CounsellorTroi

I think Claire Balding and Steph McGovern rock their short cuts too.

Claire Balding always manages to look great. There's no obvious trend she follows, but she seems to have found a look that suits her, and she rocks it.