The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-05
bODbED HAIR E
 MUCH DISCUSSED |NbUS|NESSLIFE
Free-F For-AIl Columns in the Newspapers Used to Both Knock and Defend
 Fashions Fancy

New York September 4-some
 people have begun taking bobbed air seriously
 few of them. apparently behev- Ing that the absence of long tressesl outside the head leaves the impress slon that something is lacking within, have informed the world that bobbed hair and business eff ciency don't mix Several railroad offices have taken the same position as the Chicago department store which notified it's feminine employees 1 that they must either let their hair STOW out or be let out them selves. 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 vapid and silly, we don't say they are, but you can'et get around the
 fact that they look that way And
 naturally, a girl that appears frivol- ous is not wanted in business. even though she may actually be serious minded.
 Girls have right to wear their
 hair anyway they see fit, so long as 1t 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 frivol- ous."
 "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 are-they like to take itp new things. and you can't tell
 them anything. Maybe the offices that are putting a ban on bobbed hair will teach them a lesson goodness only knows, they need it."
 "Bobbed hair is not foolish fad. + is the most sensible way for busi- ness girls to wear it. They don't likeep looking at the mirror all the
 time, and it gives them chance to type letter all the way frcm the replying to your favor to the we beg to remain without having to
 fidget around trying to keep strands
 from tickling the ears or blowing in the eyes"
 q don't know what this younger generation is thinking about. No girl with any claim to being serious minded would consider for a minute that bobbing her hair improved her appearance. I always say that if the Lord had intended for 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 it--the girls will soon get over it and come back to their senses"
 Certainly the girls of our day dress more sensibly than their moth
 CTS did. and bobed hair is one of the
 most sensible parts of their appear
 ance. It is cooler aad more com 1 fcrtable. and you don't<have to stop work every few minutes to do it up. It requires only a few minutes at tention each day and always looks fresh and neat. and this gives a girl
 more time for serious reading and things. Reformers that are always criticising everything new get on my nerves. If some of these men had ever. been cursed 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 confined their campaign against ab- breviated coiffures to writing their | opinions and talking about them. few personnel directors of large
 concerns have said, with the precau- tion of requesting that their names not be used that they were seriously considering regulations against
 bobbed haired types But that is as far as the matter has gone. Some of the masculine employers gave up hope of regulating 1t when they learned that the girls couio easily fool them. With a few rup-
 Der bands. a couple of switches, some hair pins and comb the girls can Icamouflage their bobed hair during business hours so that 1t looks .pru- dently Victorian.