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Not always men wore short hair. Homer in the Iliad writes about the "long-haired Achaeans". The ancient Greeks did not consider long hair a sign of femininity - for them it was a sign of wealth, power, and only the slaves were cut short. The same practice existed also among those ancient peoples, which are traditionally called "barbarian" - Germanic and Celtic tribes, later - for the Normans, Slavs. Thus, the ancient men did not seek to cut their hair short. This was due to the idea of ​​hair as a container of vitality - because the hair grows all his life and even some time after death. From this point of view it was often undesirable and even dangerous to cut hair: the cut hair can fall into the hands of a sorcerer who will thus gain power over a man ... hence the custom of short cutting the slaves: these are people who are under alien authority.

Waiver of long hair

The first civilization, where men gave uplong hair - this is Ancient Rome. This civilization is distinguished by its belligerence, the cult of war - after all, Rome conquered half the world. In combat, long hair is uncomfortable and even creates some danger, besides, it is difficult to clean them under the helmet. Orientation towards the war led to the approval in ancient Roman society of fashion for short hair for men. In the future, fashion has changed from era to era. Medieval Europe directly inherited not so much Rome as the barbarian kingdoms, and for the early Middle Ages long male hair was characteristic, but closer to the Renaissance tradition gives way to practicality: the haircut is "in a circle". The long hair in Europe finally "surrendered" , when wigs entered into fashion. This happened with the light hand of the French King Louis XIII, who was forced to wear a wig for lack of his own hair. The king was imitated by the courtiers, and the royal court was always the trendsetter. At the same time, men had to cut their hair short, because wearing a wig on long hair is very difficult. The wigs went out of fashion in the 19th century, but the fashion for long hair never returned - they did not harmonize with the emphatically strict style of empire that dominated at that time.

Women's hair

Fashion for long hair in women lastedmuch longer than men's, and not only because the war that gave birth to a short haircut was never a typical female occupation. To ancient women, women treated even more reverently than women's - for the woman was the continuer of the genus, so her safety ( including magic) meant a lot. If a man could still slightly cut his hair for convenience, then the woman was "afraid" of being afraid. With the development of civilization, the true reason was forgotten, "dangerously" turned into "indecent", and the tradition persisted until the 20th century. In the recent time, a short haircut for women has become one of the attributes of emancipation - the equation of rights with men in everything, including in hairstyles.