The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
PROS AND CONS OF BOBBED HAIR
Some People Taking Question Seri-
ously-Different Opinions.

New York.-Some people have be-
gun taking bobbed hair seriously.
A few of them, apparently believ-
ing that the absence of long tresses
outside the head leaves the impress
sion that something is lacking with
in, have informed the world that bob
bed hair and business efficiency don t
mix. Several railroad offices have
taken the same position as the Chi
cago department store which notified
it's feminine employees that they must
either let their hair grow out or be
let out themselves, and all manner of
people are carrying the controversy
| to that good old domestic forum
the free-for-all column in the news
papers.
And here are some of the things
they wrote the editors:
"Bobbed hair girls may not be
vapid and silly, we don't say they are,
but you can't get around the fact that
they look that way. And, naturally,
a 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 adornments were short and
snappy, the owner was frivolous"
"Bobber 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
are-they like to take up new things,
and you can't tell them anything.
Maybe the Offices that are putting a
man on bobbed hair will teach them a
lesson-goodness only knows, they
need it,
"Bebbed hair is just one of those
It is the most sensible way for busiz
ness girls to wear it. They don't
keep looking at the mirror all the
time, and it gives them a chance to
type a letter all the way from the
replying to your letter to the we
beg to remain without having to fid-
get around trying to keep strands
from tockling the ears or blowing in
the eyes,"
"I don't know what this younger
generation is thinking about. No girl
with any claim to being serious mind
ed would consider for minute that
bobbing her hair improved her ap-
pearance. I always say that If the
Lord had intended for the women to
have short hair He would have made
them that way: It's just one of
those fads, though, and there is no
use worrying about 1.-THE girls will
soon get over it and come back to
their Senses
"Certainly the girls of our day
dress more sensiblE than our mothers
did, and bobbed hair is one Of the
most sensible parts of their appear
ance. It is cooler and more comfort
able, and you don't have to stop work
every few minutes to do it up. 1t
REQUIRES only few minutes attention
each day and always looks fresh and
neat, and this gives girl more time
for serious reading and things. Re-
formers that are always criticising
everything new get On my nerves. II
some of these men had ever been
with long hair, they would think
twice before trying to tell the young
girls how to Dress
And so it goes. !
In New York the anti-bobs have
confirmed their campaign against ab-
breviated coiffures to writing their
opinions and talking about them. A
few personal directors of large con-
Germs have said, with the precaution
of requesting that their names not be
used, that they were seriously con-
sidering regulations against bobbed
haired types. But this is as far as
the matter has gone.
Some of the masculine employers
gave up hope of regulating it when
thew learned that the girls could cas-
ily fool them. With a few rubber
bands, a couple of switches, some
hair pins and a comb the girls can
camouflage their bobbed hair during