Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...attention. Bock beer was duly publicized. Women's skirts were raised to what is known as "midcalf" for the new season-a maneuver which would doubtless enable the fiends of fashion to start lowering them again in the fall. Women who had cut off most of their hair in 1949 because they looked so frightful with it long, were urged by Elizabeth Arden to grow it out immediately because they looked so frightful with it short...
...should like to answer the letter of H. A. Crosby Forbes to the CRIMSON of February 25, so that he may not misrepresent the opinions of the entire male sex on the subject of Woman's Hair...
Anyway, I like girls' hair cut short. Has H. A. Crosby Forbes ever felt the delightful contours of a woman's skull? Or run his fingers through her fine hair? Or kissed the back of her neck, without tasting dandruff? None of these delightful acts would be possible if great gobs of that stuff--hair--trailed down between her shoulder blades...
...main contention of Mr. Forbes that I take issue with, is that in a rational society the only forgivable reason for a woman to cut her hair is to improve her looks. Nonsense! In a rational society the only forgivable reason is the greater comfort and convenience of short hair...
...those who follow each passing fancy. There is no absolute standard for Femininity more than for any other value in nature. Ultimately, let us hope that with our assistance our feminine comrades will be set free from the bonds of vanity--the "improvement" of surface beauty by cosmetics, long hair, falsies, etc.--as we ourselves were, only two hundred years ago. David Drake...