New Britain herald., 1921-09-06
ROBBED HAIR GETS
 THEM ALL TALKING
Associated Press Gives Some Popular Versions

New York. Sept. 6.-Some people have begun taking bobbed hair ser iously.
 A few of them. apparently believing that tho absence of blond tresses out sido tho head leaves the impression that something is lacking within, have in- formed the world that bobbed hair and business efficiency don't mix. Sev- eral railroad offices have taken the same position as the Chicago. der part mcnt store which notified it's feminine employees that they must either let their hair grow out or be let out them selves and all manner Of people are carrying the controversy to that good old democratic forum-the free-for- all column in the newspapers.
 And there arc some of the things they wrote the editors:
 "Boobed 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 ac- tually be serious minded"
 "Gis's have a right to wear their hair anyway they see fit, so long as it appears neat and respectable, and only a vhpid and silly person would think for one minute that because the hir- suto adornmentl were short and snap py. tho owner was frivolous"
 "Bohbed hair is just one of those foolish lads 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 arc-they like to take up new things, any 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. tl-ey need It.
 "Bobbed hair is not a foolish fad. It is the most sensible way f|r busi- ness girls to wear it. They don't keep looking at the mirror all the time, and 1t gives them 0 chance to type let ter alb the way from the replying to your favor to the we beg to remain without having to fdset around trying to keep strands from tickling the ears blowing in the eyes"
 "I 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 hobbing her hair improved her nppearance. I always say that if the Lord had intended tor women to have short hair He would nave made them that way. its just one of those fads. though. and there is no use worrying about 1.-the girls will soon get over it and como back to their senses"
 Certainly tho girls of our day dress more sensib1y than their mothers did. and bohbed hair is one of the most sensible parts Of their appearance. It is cooler and more comfortable. 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 9 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 te tell the young girls how to dres-.''
 And SO it goes.
 In New York the anti-bobs have confined their campaign against ab- breviated cultures to writing their opinions and talking about them. A few personal directors of large con- cerns have said with the precaution of requesting that their names not be used. shat they were seriously consid- cring regulations against bobbed-hair types. But that is as far as the mat ter has gone.
 Some of the masculine employers rave up hope of regulating it when they learned that the girls could easily fool them. With few rubber bands. a couple of switches. some hair pins and a comb the girls camouflage their bobbsd hair during business hours so that t looka prudently Victorian.