There have been rumblings before. My own generation wore bad hair as a badge and celebrated it in a musical play. We used our shaggy locks instead of body piercing and tattoos to signal to our parents that we would take their money but not their advice. Then we grew up, cut our hair and started working on our stock portfolios. In 1994, a survey by Yankelovich Partners reported that 90 percent of women suffer from bad hair days.
Most regular women can cite a day when the earth spun out of control beginning with our hairdo.
I still break into a cold sweat recalling a seriously overmoussed television appearance. My mother has a video clip of me looking just like Little Richard. But it was Cincinnati's soap giant that commissioned a study proving men have feelings, too. The control group was not asked to think about anything negative. A second group was questioned about bad hair episodes in their lives.