First Ladies Hairstyles

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Registered: 08-07-2004
First Ladies Hairstyles
Tue, 10-12-2004 - 2:01pm
First, I'm not making this up!

A close friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a married couple yesterday. The man said they will be voting for Bush. Then they went on to talk about Teresa's hair. They didn't like it. Said something like "Did you see how she wears her hair?"

I suppose they prefer Laura's "helmet head" hairstyle. You know, once its styled, it gets sprayed & stays there on her head without moving. But Teresa has loose hair, & she moves her head a lot so her hair moves a lot too.

Now at first my reaction was "how superficial!". But then I couldn't get it out of my mind. In many fundamentalist religions women are not to show their hair, it must be covered. I'm thinking that maybe conservative religious women are allowed to show their hair, as long as it is in a controlled style. But loose hair, now that's apparently not acceptable. It could be too tempting to men, or maybe it means "loose hair equals loose woman".