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Me too, I feel lucky that when I was in high school long hair was the 'norm'. It made it easier to share hair tips and you never had be singled out for abuse in gym or anything like that.

thats great! - the judges have really hated our show and we have really been doing terrible this year - whats the theme of your show? - i go to Antioch - where do you go?

Puts me in mind of this one time..

I was in a youth ballet in High School, and I tended to get 'character' roles.  For 'Peter and the Wolf' I was one of the hunters...  MALE hunters, of course.

My costume included this hat into which I was supposed to fit my hair.  Thing was, it was a bit small - even a flat bun stuck out like a knob and floated the hat a few inches above my head.  So I just stuffed it and pinned it and hoped...

Alas, all my efforts were for naught, as about halfway through, the compressed hair fought back and the hat went flying in a pouf of REALLY long hair *s*  So much for looking male...  not like I'd been able to strap my chest convincingly anyway.

But yeah, I took a lot of grief in High School, people always wanting to know when I was going to cut it and so on...  But then, I had a significant number who threatened to kill me if I ever DID cut it, so 

Hang in there and dare to be different.  The hat lasts for a concert - your hair is with you always

*peers at the date* right, so this is topic's a bit old, but it struck a chord so *shrug*

Nah, developed early osteoarthritis just into College, had to stop my flamenco lessons .  Tried to keep the ballet longer, but point shoes are pret-ty painful on bad knees.  Is ok, though, there's always something else to do...  like early and celtic music  

These days, I'm more about the quilting/ weaving/ knitting/ spinning/ anything but crosstitch (because I can't count   ), and get my excercise with low impact weights and some light biking.

Yep, making your curvy self look like a guy is an uphill battle to be sure.   Another production, I had strapped myself down with an ace wrap...  which worked until the ace wrap came undone and fell out of my shirt and onto the stage mid-leap    Talk about your wardrobe malfunctions    Luckily, the hair stayed securely stuffed into my jester's hat that night.

I remember when I was about seven my ballet class were mice in a concert, and we were dressed in grey costimes, they were al all in one costume, long legs, and a hood (with ears) we even had these stuffed tails (the costumes had zipps)  The problem was, your hair had to be under the hood.  I had long hair back then, fortunatley it was very fine, so we were able to coil it around  my head so there wasn't too much of a bumb.  My friend had very long THICK hair, and no matter what she did, there was a bump.  Now, the ears were stuffed with cotton wool and sewen on, so what we did for her was take the ears off, un-stuff them, cut slits in the hood and sew the ears into the hood.  Then we did her hair in two buns, so the bumps they made were covered by the ears.  Lol, and her ears looked the best as they actually stood up...

Then a few years later I was  tuna fish, same deal, only this time instead of a dull, thick stretch grey costume it was a shiney blue/silver one, and the hood problem was worse for some reason...  But we were never told to cut our hair!

I know this reply is late, but it caught my eye because it said "Marching Band."

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WOMAN TOLD YOU TO CUT YOUR HAIR!!   You did good by not giving in.

I was in band too.  For those people that weren't, there are guidlines you have to follow like pant hems need to fall just so next to your shoe.  Same with arm cuffs.  Another is all hair must not touch the top of the band uniform.  At my school we had high collars, and I had a low hairline!  But they didn't tell me to cut my hair.  Instead we had to use globs of Aquanet and bobby pins.  Anyway, all these rules were to ensure that everyone looked exactly the same.  I guess it was more impressive to the judges.  *shrug*

Cynde