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

Fashion?
Short styles were quite popular in the 80s but by the 90s when I was in secondary school I can't think of any girls who had hair shorter than a bob.
My DD and all her friends have long hair

I love the long hair on the girls and they seem to look after it really well too. I had really lovely thick hair when I was younger and regret never letting it grow long.
My daughter has gorgeous thick long hair and doesn’t straighten or abuse it.

Fashions change,have a few pics from school days, no social media or phones with cameras then so only a few, almost every girl on them has short hair, doubtless in time it will change again

This exactly. When my daughter was a teen, she had very long hair. Now she's earning well, she has a high maintenance bob.

It's because they've seen photos of their parents in the 80s and 90s and realize what we should have known. We looked stupid. 😀

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There were no pixie cuts in my school and I went to school in the 90s. There were short bobs. Ir thibk its a fashion thing. Tbe short pixie cuts look really dated now I think, but were all the rage in the 80s and early 90s. Now they are for older ladies. Maybe they wil come back round one day?

Talking to people on here about how wonderfully original they thought they were in their teens reminds me of the people at sixth form college who thought they were more individual and original than anyone else because they were goths.

Okaaaaaay.
maybe step away from what is a very innocuous uncontroversial thread and chill out a bit?

I didn’t do A levels but plenty of my female school friends did. I did ONC/HNC and did engineering at university. I’m not disputing that maybe more males than females do some subjects but would never call them boys’ subjects.

some will and others as they want to fit in endnote be different

And maybe take a nap. you just replied to yourself!

If that is all you have to worry about then please swap lives hahaha I've got to get on with my normal life! Next you'll be saying 'oh I've seen a lot of boys at school having spikey hair, back in my day it was curtains' seriously get a life hun

Obviously everyone has the right to style their hair as they wish, but I do find the homogenous appearance of all girls and young women wrt their hair a bit boring. Some variation would be nice

Why do girls have to look interesting for other people? If the want to look homogenous and boring (in your option) then that is up to them. If society is forcing them to, as other PPs have alluded to, then that definitely need to be called out.

And I don’t think it is a good thing that teachers are commenting on your daughter’s hairstyle, unless it is to say that it is in some way inappropriate for school.

I don't think anyone is saying that: we're commenting on the lack of variety.

Looks a bit sad now you had to post it twice 😁

Exactly. Teenage girls aren't there for others to find visually pleasing. Oh its so boring for me for all these little girls to look the same. I like a bit of variety.

My granddaughter has a pixie cut and if some tit tells her she must be a boy we will be so angry.

gosh, that escalated!!
Would love to see you on a controversial thread!

Fashion, but I know what you mean, I was a teen in the 80s and short hair was pretty trendy then - unfortunately for me, as I look awful with mine short! After a couple of traumatic brushes with the scissors I learnt my lesson and grew it back out. 😄

I often look around me at the moment and notice very few girls/women have short hair at the moment, long is definitely having a moment and I agree with pp, this is partly driven by influencers I think.

I can't remember many people in my secondary having short hair (2000-2005) almost everyone had long hair

seriously, are you having a bad moment as this is a massive over reaction.
I'll not reply again as you sound very irrationally angry.
Hope your day gets better