To wonder why all girls have long hair?

[Mightymoog]

Just driving past the secondary school at home time and every single girl had long hair. Different colours, some wavy, some straight, but every last one of them had long hair.
Where are all the short cuts or even mid length.
when I was at school (admittedly many moons ago )there was a huge range from short and spiky to mid length bobs to long.
just a little something I've been musing on for a while and prepared for people to tell me the local school is an aberration of long hair lovers

😆 Believe me, my DD just shampoos and conditions and goes to sleep. She may wave a hair dryer in the vague direction of her head if she has washed her hair just before bedtime. She has thick smooth hair. If I did the same, I would have super frizzy hair.

My niece is 11 and has medium length hair.

Lots of the kids in my son's primary school have short or medium hair too

I've always had short hair. Have two teen DDs at different schools and both have told me at different times if they had a hair cut like mine everyone would assume they were trans.

I considered shaving my DD’s head when she did that, she looked like Worzel Gummidge and was late to school because of the faffing detangling it all!

Once out of school and at uni she shaved the lot off!

@Obscurial
I've had waist length hair and my adult life abs most of my childhood and I've never find it any bother to keep it looking nice, I wash and condition it every two days, brush it, and leave it to dry. I very occasionally straighten my fringe if it sticks up when it's dry, and trim it from time to time, but that's all that's necessary. I wear it loose 95% of the time and it's very rare that I get any tangles.

End stage capitalism. Long hair needs products and stylers. How many wear make up at ever younger ages, look at the plethora of ‘spa and make up parties’ for 7/8 year olds. All to do with making money and exploiting insecurities. Then cosmetic procedures in your early 20s, anti ageing lotions and potions in your 30s/40s and 50s. God help you if you look your age or if you diverge from conventional feminine beauty. By the time you’re in your 60s you’ve become invisible.

In my day at school, crimpers and a lot of hairspray were popular. Haven’t seen crimped hair in decades!!

You must be blessed with easy hair!

I clip mine myself out of necessity. I hate having long hair.
Hairdressers charge a fortune, barbers don’t cut women’s hair (I tried to identify temporarily as a man but they weren’t having it!). So I do it myself.

I always think of high schools as little sub-cultures and have noticed different fashions in these different sub-cultures. In one school I worked in it was fashionable to look different to each other, which reflected the inclusive ethos of the school as a whole.

Fashion. My DD has hair down to her bum. It’s so beautiful. She takes great care of it

So when in the title you say ALL , ie: being or representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity, you actually mean ONE SCHOOL.

We have seen some bonkers generalisations in MN, but yours takes the biscuit.

Fashion.

And also because sometimes short hair is more maintenance. When my hair I'd long, I can just put it up or brush it and quickly straighten it. When my hair is shoulder length or above ve, it needs cutting every six weeks, has to be blow dried carefully, and I can't just tie it up out of the way.

another strangely angry reply!
Apologies: I should have said " wonder why all THE girls have liong hair"
then it would have been even more obvious I was referring to this one school which I said may well be an aberration.
Does that make you a little less peeved?

We have 3 local schools, a girls school which seems to have the full range, long, short, under cuts, curly, straight etc make up is either very subtle or none, skirts like kilts to the knee, long socks common. One local comp is in a naice catchment area, lots of girls with long hair , some bobs, or almost what I'd consider 'rachel' haircuts, very glossy, lots of very nineties styles even those little plaits in otherwise unplaited hair (I commented on this in the summer to dh it made me feel nostalgic) minimal make up, some skirts rolled up but teachers on the gate checking uniforms (friend also works there).

The other comp is inadequate last Ofsted said it had a problem with an entrenched culture of violence, it gets very poor results, the girls there almost all have long hair, blow out/wavy style lots of bleach, also lots of heavy make up false nails and lashes, very very short skirts a bit of a love island look. I'm guessing that school has bigger fish to fry than dress code. Different schools have different cultures, fashions and trends

Emm perhaps, but is the average teenage girl paying attention to obscure high fashion models? The only person with very short hair in their periphery is probably their gran, and with the best will in the world, does anyone want to look like their granny when they’re 14?

In terms of the 80s, I get the nostalgia if you were young then but I’ve seen plenty of old photos and video clips, and absolutely no one’s hair looked good.

I’d also dispute that the current tend has been around for 25 years. There was a definite trend in the mid 2000s for graduated bobs thanks to Vitoria Beckham, and the Frankie from The Saturdays asymmetric pixie cut that was huge in the late 2000s. And of course, the side fringe, emo/scene deep side part of varying lengths and colours, non graduated bobs, lobs, pastel hair had a real moment around 2016-18ish, etc, etc, etc. Very long straight hair with a middle part has only been a thing for the last maybe 5 years or so. And most of the time it looks beautiful - lovely and shiny, and in great condition.

No! That still makes no sense.

The only way it could have some resemblance of a logical question would be to say : Am I being unreasonable to wonder why most the girls of the school xyz have long hair ? (Let's face it. I doubt it you saw each one of them, so "most of" will have to do).

But it still would be quite a pointless thread. Because there is only one potential answer! Yes, you are unreasonable to wonder why, because it is so obvious!!!
Because they like it! Simples.

Honestly OP, probably best you ask the admins to delete the thread.

Now,see, to me short hair equals pixie. I don’t see bobs as short and even a short jaw length bob doesn’t look masculine. And just below the shoulders certainly isn’t short.

Same. Which is why I always had long hair and she would chop off the ends with kitchen scissors couple of times a year.

best to delete the thread?
I'm good thanks but might be best if you stop looking at it.
Maybe have a chat with the other person who was weirdly aggrieved by a very ionoffensive topic.

I think long hair seems to be the fashion at the moment. Short hair tends to be associated more with LGBT girls...or "tomboys".

But not all girls have long hair of this generation of course. My youngest (DD7) has shorter hair than her older brother and often gets mistaken for a boy (she wears boys clothes too and has a tough sort of personality)

It's fashion in my opinion. Things go in circles - when I was at secondary in the 70s, in my class we literally all had long hair just like these days. Our class photo in 1976 was taken outside on a slightly windy day and we all look completely wild!

In that case, over course of history girls generally didnthave their hair that short. I did in primary school and in my 20s. DD did as well in primary but the vast majority over the course of my entire life had hair at least jaw length (one had her razored at the back and then long at the front).

In magazines maybe but i havent seen a lot of people with a pixie cut for years, apart from two friends whonare both lesbian. Literally noone else i know has a pixie cut. I live and work in london so not in some darkerned corner that fashion doesnt reach. I just think its out of fashion as a mainstream look, whereas it was a mainstream look in the 80s and everyone had them.
My older lady comment is that I do see older ladies with short cuts much more than the youngsters. The op was talking about fashion for school age girls but ai only ever see older ladies and my lesbian friends with short short hair now!

My youngest had a razor on hers (DH took her to the barbers) so her hair is shorter than a pixie...also I think if you called her hair a pixie cut she would take great offense