The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-09-07
OPINIONS ON BoBBED HAIR

Some people have begun taking
Bobbed hair seriously. A few of them.
apparently believing that the absence
Of long tresses outside the head
leaves the impression that something
is lacking within, have informed the
world thta bobbed hair and business
efficiency don't mix. Several railroad
Offices have taken the same position
as the Chicago department store
which notified its feminine employees
that they must either let their hair
grow out or be let out themselves,
and all manner of people are carry
ing the controversy to that good old
democratic forum-the free-for-all
column in the newspapers.
And here are some of the things
they wrote the editors:
"Bobbed haired girls may not be
Ivapid and silly. we don't say they are,
but you can't get around the fact that
they look that way. And, naturally,
girl that appears frivolous is not
wanted in business, even though she
may actually be serious minded
"Girls have right to wear their
hair any way they see fit, so long as
it appears neat and respectable, and
only vapid and silly person would
think for one minute that because the
hirsute adornment were short and
snappy, the owner was frivolous"
"Bobbed hair is just one of those
foolish fads that that crazy crew
down in Greenwich Village started.
The women around the country really
ought to know better than to initiate
them, but you know how young girls
lare-they like to take up new things,
and you can't tell them anything.
Maybe the offices that are putting a
ban on bobbed hair will teach them
la lesson goodness only knows, they
need it."
/ "Bobbed hair is not foolish fad.
1t is the most sensible way for bust
mess girls to wear it. They don't
q keep looking at the mirror all the
4 time, and it gives them chance to
TYPE a letter all the way from the
replying to your favor to the we
!. beg to remain without having to
! fdget around trying to keep strands
from tickling the ears or blowing ir
the eyes,"
Il 81 don't know what this younger
generation is thinking about. No CIR
with any claim to being serious
, minded would consider for minutt
that bobbing her hair improved hel
; appearance l always say that if the
Lord had intended for women to have
/ short hair he would have made then
!. that way. It's just one of those fads
: though, and there is no use worrying
about 1.-THE girls will soon get ovel
lit and come back to their senses"
j Certainly the girls of our da!
+ dress more sensibly than their moth
: ers did, and bobbed hair is one of thu
2 most sensible parts of their appear
arce. 1t is cooler and more comfor
table, and you don't have TO stol
) work every few minutes to do it up
: 1t requires only few minutes atten
5 ton each day and always looks fresl
5 and neat, and this gives girl NOR
: time for serious reading and things
e Reformers that are always criticisint
n everything new get on my nerves
5 some of these men had ever beel
a cursed with long hair, they woul'
S think twice before trying to tell tn
S girls how to dress"
e And so it goes.
In New York the anti-bobs hav
confined their campaign against al
!, breviated coiffures to writing thei
e opinions and talking about them. !
few personnel directors of large cor
Germs have said. with the precautio
# Of requesting that their names not
(. Us ed. that they were seriously consit
r, ering regulations against bobbet
# haired girls. But that is as far as IL
lie matter has gone.
IS Some of the masculine employer
" gave up hope of regulating it whe
m they learned that the girls could cas-
liz fool them With few rubb'
hands, a couple of switches, some ha
re pins and a comb the girls can canon
II nage their bobbed hair during bus
st ness hours so that it looks prudent
Victorian.
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