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

I have a pixie cut and I don't even brush it. I just get up and go - couldn't be easier.

OoooOOOooooo you lucky thing, I wish that worked for me, I tried it but my hair informed me it was the wrong texture and type for this life goal. 😁

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're not an anthropologist or social scientist. 😁

Not always to do with fashion, or even adhering to stereotypes. Long hair is easier, I personally have long hair because:

• I can trim it myself, I don't have to go to a hairdresser where the last time I went it cost £25 to get it trimmed and most places insist on a wash and blow dry too and I hate that.
• I wouldn't mind short hair, but it would involve regular trims, I can't be arsed, and again, many hairdressers insist on a wash too. If I could utilise a barber, I would consider it but they only do men's hair which is a shame as the environment is quick and practical and much less faffy.
• I can blast my hair dry and clag it up out of the way tidy and if I were that way inclined I could dress it if I wanted to (realistically though it's always neatly tied up out of the way). Ultimately if all of them want long hair at the moment, who the hell cares, if they are happy just leave them be.

I have a bob and wash it once a week, it’s very thick and doesn’t need doing more often. Most mornings it’s comb and go it just falls into place.

I've had pixie cuts in the past. It was great while I kept it short but it needed such regular cutting to keep it in shape, and any time it grew slightly it would stick up in the morning or stick out at an odd angle, so I find it higher maintenance than long hair.

Even then in my 20s people did think I was a man sometimes from the back. And I don't think it would be a great look for me now.

This.

Why is it a shame and why is it less free? Did you feel constrained to have to have your hair short in your teens? Why should they feel constrained having it long.

I didn't feel constrained at all no. I had short hair for convenience and didn't face the scrutiny that a lot of people talk about on this thread.

My DD is 13 and recently had her hair cut very short, it really suits her, but she's definitely in the minority

Its sad that girl = long hair

I'm 100% female but my hair is short and shaved on both sides! doesn't make me any less of a woman

I’ve had my hair really short at various times in my life including childhood, was told in it really suited me. Was never mistaken for boy/man, then again I’m only 5ft 1!

My 18yo DD has shoulder length hair. Her friend has very short Afro hair. Another friend wears hers long. Different strokes for different folks. Trends are different across the country.

I'm 47 and have very long hair when the generation ahead of me have bobbed hair. My parents keep asking when I'm getting it cut. I'm not intending to!

Also I think someone else said this up thread but I think it depends on your hair, my daughter has beautiful hair waist length hair and just washes it and leaves it. I, on the other hand, have always hand quite unmarkable, thin mousy hair so thought anything was an improvement so was quite happy to cut and dye my hair with wild abandon.

I had super short hair at school, but it was the Eighties. There were all sorts of styles. Perms were huge so I guess we can all agree that in some cases nice long natural hair is no bad thing (if your hair allows).

Why do some people get so over invested in how women wear their hair? Probably the same people who will tell women over 40 that they should cut their hair short

I think longer hair is lovely, on boys and girls. I always wished I could grow mine long but it's never gone much past my shoulders. I find it takes more effort to style mine nicely because bits always come out of the ponytail. My daughter is only 3.5 and has long curly hair down to her bum, it's actually mega easy to look after as I can just bung it in a ponytail and that's that! She can do whatever she wants with it when she's older but il secretly be devasted if she cuts it short, it's just so beautiful! My nephew has long hair too and I feel the same about his so it's definitely not a girl thing.

Because you live somewhere where young people have socially conservative and conformist tastes. Not everywhere, and not all young people, are like this.

Yes this. There’s been news stories about a girls’ football team having to do a campaign to say girls can have short hair. It feels regressive. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1nzv799mo.amp

so some of the replies saying it’s one school just isn’t true. I’d also be interested to know about the school where more of the girls have short hair (I think a teacher posted)

I came here to say this. Girls are trying to assert being female and straight by wearing their hair long; those who stray from it do so as a means of marking themselves out. Of all my four girls, only my daughter who is same sex attracted has decided to cut her hair shorter and try different styles to get away from the male gaze.

Marilyn Monroe had short hair.

I have long hair and I’m not straight, as do a lot of my lesbian friends.

You don’t question your stereotyping ‘girls’ that they need to look feminine? Don’t see any correlation by the homogeneity posted by SM and trash tv that girls who DONT want to look like THAT ( you say feminine, I could equally say -at the extreme end- trashy, sexually available etc) feel they ‘must be trans’? I was always a Tomboy, in the 80’ I might have done really long ankle grazers or really short bum hugging skirts but largely jeans/trousers. Never dresses. Prefer my DMs or wellies or trainers or hiking boots NEVER high heels.

But I am and always have been comfortable as ME. Such a shame that INDIVIDUALITY has been lost. The point of the thread shouldn’t be about changing hair style fashions (forgive me as have mulleted, permed, dyed and mohicanned). It’s the loss of self and the wholesale promotion that only Uber femininity is acceptable and that anyone different should be shunned and shamed.

I've often thought this.
It's because kids (particularly girls) are much more sheep like today than we were.
They have absolutely no sense of personal style or imagination. We used to wear all sorts of different clothing and nobody had the same haircut. They're all so desperate to look exactly alike these days.
It's a totally different world now and I think it's a real shame.

Fashion.
When I was in secondary school in the 80's all the girls had perms.

When I was a teenager I had short hair, most of my classmates had short hair and I secretly wished for long hair. Nowadays I think that if I was at secondary school I'd have short hair, because everybody else had long hair. I guess I've always liked being a bit different.

When my daughter was a teenager about 10 years ago, all the girls in town had long hair but all wore their hair in buns, very Catford face lift! That fashion seems to have disappeared.