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LONG HAIRED BOYS

Erna FD-J-1 FPE

The long haired boys and young men here in Europe have given us something to think about. The Beatles are mentioned as being the first who came out with this new “Fashion," of long hair, high heeled shoes or boots, etc. But the tendencies for this "Fashion" were to be seen before the Beatles began to play especially among the young artists. Is it a feminine urge that has broken out? Perhaps, but the young men with long hair are apparently not transvestites.

In an interview on television, an 18-year-old boy with long hair to his shoulders was asked: "Do you like to be feminine?" The answer was: "No, but what is feminine?" This anwer, I think, is very char- acteristic. What is feminine? The movement-if we may call the new fashion so has a tendency to blur out the borders between feminine and masculine; ideas that no longer have the same value as before. The youth is apparently not interested in this outer difference between the sexes.

The girls put on the boys' trousers and the former exclusively mas- culine trousers have been a common piece of clothes for both males and females. In the same way the former feminine hairstyles have been common for the two sexes. Naturally some of the long haired men will declare that they want to revive an old masculine hair-fashion thinking of Samson and our classic artists etc. who all wore long hair. Some declare that they want to revive the old Belle Epoch of Europe where men wore long hair or wigs and were dressed in more interesting clothes than today. This may be right, but it does not interfere with our assertion that a new movement is blurring out the borders between feminine and masculine appearances.

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