I'm sure he's sincere but delusional.

"Old ladies" nowadays seem to wear their hair in cookie-cutter short cuts. Only the coolest older women - the few, the proud -  wear their hair in buns.

He's just jealous. 

Old ladies have their hair blue-rinsed, cut short and permed or crimped into finger waves.

Ladies with chignons or French twists look poised and elegant, no matter their age!

/Kate

Now I know what they're talking about:

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These wigs look like Norman Bates mother !  

I don't consider a bun to be "old lady" hair at all! Everyone in Dublin Airport wears their hair in a bun. In fact, some airlines out here require you to. (Aer Lingus is one of them that requires you to wear your hair up at all times, preferably in a bun if possible.)

The airline I work for doesn't require it, but I prefer the look of it. It's very neat, clean and professional. (The only time I slightly cringed at the thought of wearin a bun was when this older American passenger said to me that he loved my hair up in a bun. "You remind me of my mother when I was a boy with your hair up in a bun like that." I thanked him but I wasn't sure whether to be enlightened or annoyed at the idea of reminding someone of their mother. LOL)

When I think of old lady hair, I think of all the things ye have already discussed. The blue rinses, and the short poodle perms.  I will rebel agains that when I'm old! I want white long hair like the lady the X-men comics. Storm I think...

eKatherine  said "Only the coolest older women - the few, the proud -  wear their hair in buns. "


Well said!!!  Well said!!  

i think my bf finds especially french twists very dated. i do think though you can make less formal variations with very long hair but well, i just never managed to do them anyhow 

the only thing i find just too weird and old fashioned to wear are crown braids (luckily cuze i don't think i could ever do that anyhow). that hairstyle just doesn't fit with any clothing that is even just remotely modern.
shoot me now 

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Me too.  Nothing is better than a dress that makes my bosoms larger to even out w/ my hips and long flowing hair!

oh but i have nothing against old styles ... but with such a neat dress i'd still prefer to have my hair loose! i think i just don't have a head for crown braids really.

hehe ... i also don't really wear young sporty clothes 

well, one of my best memories is going over to my grandmother's house where my mother would then go through the process of 'letting down granna's hair'. By the time she had taken down the bun consisting of 4 long white braids it hung clear to the floor when she was sitting in her chair.

Then they would go to the sink and my mother would gently wash it being careful to try to not tangle the solid white mane.

She could not do her hair by herself. In fact I grew up feeling that hair doing was part of a collective process between family members and freinds... especially when it is very long and hard to even wash alone.

then my mother would gently finger comb it to lay down both her front and back and that is when the baking began! Baking of course helped make the kitchen warm and it would take several hours for her hair to air dry. You could not style it wet because 'it would start to rot on her head'

helping braid that hair was wonderful and when she passed away it was part of my exchange with her that I really missed... it seemed to be so much of 'who she was'... the little old round lady with the big bun.

Everyone says I look just like her

Rosa, what special memories!  And looking like your precious granna is wonderful too.