Hair cuts

According to the Metro:

"The eye-catching cut was invented in 1909 by Parisian hairdresser Antoine Paris, whose inspiration was Joan of Arc. It was picked up in upper-crust Bloomsbury circles in the early 20th century and then by flappers. But its arrival in America in the 1920s sparked controversy, which reached fever pitch when preachers declared: 'A bobbed woman is a disgraced woman.' "

Apparently, some men went as far as divorcing wives who sported a bob. That's something I hadn't known earlier but when I read about it, I couldn't help but think about how nowadays, women are still judged by how they choose to have their hair cut.

Wear your hair long, and you're traditional; short and you're modern, liberal and possibly, professional. Walk into a salon with long hair and ask to have it cut short and you'll feel as though you have been transported into Louisa Alcott's Little Women, and you'll finally find out what it felt like for Joe to have to sell her long hair for money: the tragic expressions on the hairdressers' faces will teach you that. And that's assuming that they agree to cut your hair in the first place which they probably will not do without cross checking with you half a dozen times first.