Long hair has a long history (I mean, literally since the da..
Added 2024-07-13 11:00:21 +0000 UTCLong hair has a long history (I mean, literally since the dawn of time most cultures have had rituals or norms around it) so the history of women's hair is complicated and nuanced. The simplified version is that by the time Queen Victoria reigned, it was considered elite and the peak of femininity to have long hair (even if it was taboo to ever wear it down outside of the bedroom) because of the costly upkeep to have long hair. Things changed in the 1920s when women's liberation movements began, and hair was cut short in protest of traditional norms.
Short hair trends continued for generations and, like anything else, became the expected norm into the 1970s when the counter-culture movements began, and long hair on both men and women became suddenly seen as anti-culture, or hippie hair.
