Well, the shortest my hair has ever been was when I was a child and I had these horrible short curls, that made me look like George from the Famous Five! (UK members will know what I mean )

As an adult the shortest I've had my hair was in a "Chicago" style bob a while back when my hair was being professionally straightened. (Oh, the horror!)
My hair is longer now than it's ever been, and counting. Its now bra-strap length and I'm trying to grow it.
Some-one told me that no-one over 35 grows their hair so I've got about a month and a bit to see how long it can grow. 

the shortest was probably shoulder length (which was my last major haircut that ive since grown out  ) when i was younger i always wanted it around shoulder length but my mum wouldnt let me cos she liked my hair long...so i would always be cut to between shoulders and bsl (thats the shortest she let me have it  yay mum)

I think the shortest my hair has ever been was when I was just starting school. My mother had it kept about shoulder length on me, for as far back as I can remember I begged her to let me grow it out. When I finally got my way I kept it and my hair is currently at its longest point now. Thanks to all of the information and tips I've found here, I'm hoping it will only get longer.

Rua - did your mom tape bows to your head so people would know you were a little girl?  My mother would tape little bows to my head and apparently I would immediately pull them off (pulling what little hair I had with it!)

When I was a child, my hair was between shoulder- and bra strap length. At 16, my hairdresser lured me to cut it short, and short it stayed for a long while. Occassionally, I let it grow as far as shoulder length and then permed it 
-I thought that a perm made it more manageable and liked curls.
  From that level, I went three times to near-bald. Not pixie, but a half centimeter stub with a little more hair (half bangs???) in front. It looked kinda cool, but at some point I decided that after I'm done with that style, I'd try to grow my hair really long- I started noticing that my friends were starting to cut their long locks short and a rebellious soul as I am, I decided to do something different. A long hair put up to a bun, it would be for me.
About 3½ years ago I came to conclusion, that if I want to have long hair when I hit 30, I should stop cutting my summer stub and start to grow. I've been growing ever since. First year I made it from no hair to chin, next year I grew out layers and started to near shoulders. Now I'm in halfway between shoulders and BSL. Soon I'll have my hair longer than never before in my life

Rua - that is a stitch!  Sorry you have to live with the scar for your memory of it.

The shortest I've ever had it (aside from growing it out as a baby) has been just slightly above shoulder length.  When I was in high school I had this marvelous head of waist length hair, but I chopped it off because my mother had refused to let me (darned teenage hormones!)

I am rapidly approaching my "longest hair has ever been" point.  I want to see just how far past it I can get.. *smiles*

The history of my hair.... hmmm....

Well - add another bald-headed toddler with taped on bows and bonnets to the list!!!  I had a super-fine wispy hair/ bald look for 2 years.  then, thick little blond curls at the nape and fuzz over the top.  By three, I had sausage curls all over to the shoulder.  By 4 1/2 (kindergarten) It was straight, brown and braids past the shoulders.

From Kindergarten till 10th grade it grew - was usually around waist length, depending upon trims.

In Junior and senior years of highschool, (1980,81) Practically destroyed my hair with perms and bleach.  By graduation had a waist-length kinky perm on pale blond hair. LOOKED AWFUL (especially with my VERY fair skin and dark brown eyes)!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ('course, didn't think so at the time)

18 - 24: back to natural brown color - slowly recovered hair health, trimmed 5-7 inches per year.

25: pregnant.  HUGE HAIR GROWTH.  Addition of auburn and black coarse curly hair growth during and ever since pregnancy - allowing greater growth and strength to formerly only baby fine hair.

26: Hurray for all those pregnancy hormones in past year!  Hair to thigh!  Of course - when my son was a year old I had a spiral perm put into the thigh length hair - (my cousin and 2 of her stylists took 4 hours to get all of the rods in - and they couldn't fit my hair into the shampoo basin due to the enormous size of my head and it took two people to help me walk - my head must have weighed 30 pounds - ha ha

27-35: letting the perm grow out.  Letting hair achieve "natural" color/state/health. Back to trimming 4 - 5 inches/year - to get rid of the once stunningly beautiful curls.

35-41: Back to plain hair.  wavy but healthy.  currently below tailbone length - seeking thigh length hair again. Resolutions: NEVER perm or color hair again!!!!!

nightowl

The shortest was when I was about 4 and it was one of those Dutch Boy type styles, chin lenth with bangs, actually it did look cute.   After that it was never shorter than shoulder length, that was when I was starting high school. It wouldn't have even been as short as shoulder length except I tried bleaching my dark brown BSL hair blonde after having a permanent   (totally stupid but I was only 14) and it broke off something terrible.    After it grew out from that fiasco it has never been shorter than mid-back between BSL and waist length. Right now it's the longest it has ever been and it's hip length almost tailbone.  

Anais Satin - a half-pixie?  Is that half the length of a regular pixie or longer than a regular pixie?  Have we
"super-sized" our hair now that it's much longer than a regular pixie he-he.  My weird sense of humor is taking over today--too much time in church meetings

Anais - Oh yeah.  I had that for awhile too  Actually I really liked it on me, but it got boring after awhile.  Worked well with hats though.

Maybe having extremely short hair makes us appreciate our long hair even more?

Shortest- when I was little!  But shortest post-haircut was when I had 'unwanted visitors' - too long to comb completely - beneath shoulderblades to just beyond tops of shoulders.

Longest- at the moment - 32 inches at the last time of measuring (I was rather bored at the time)

HAHAHAHAHAH, I love this!

OK, so everyone is going to be jealous. I had THICK hair as a toddler. (Of course, now I'm making up for it by having the most maddeningly thin, flat, impossible-to-do hair EVER!)

By age one my hair had come in, thick and brown. Then, in patches (yes, in PATCHES) it slowly turned white blonde. By age two I had thick little white-blonde pigtails. By four I had waist-length hair, still white blonde, still thick and stick-straight.

Then some time in elementary school it thinned out considerably, bowing to the genetics of my mother, who has it even worse...and my mom and I both have been fighting with it ever since. I kept wearing it long (to my mom's total annoyance, because it snarled like nobody's business) but putting it up for ballet every day was a calamity involving rubberbands, metal pins, half a bottle of hairspray, a ponytail by the end of class anyway, and handfuls of torn hair when I tried to get the rubberband out. And eventually chopping it all off in exasperation.

Ever since then, every attempt to grow it out again ended in disaster and another haircut before I could get very far because I abused it terribly. Somehow, brilliant me, I didn't realize how uncommonly fragile my hair was or the fact that I couldn't do a lot to it that my friends COULD do to their hair.

The shortest my hair has ever been was when I found this message board...3 inches after the latest and worst disaster, a perm that literally burned off some of my hair. Longest was waist-length in high-school. I look back on that with mixed feelings. I adored my hair long but it was in horrible condition.

Now I'm aiming to find my terminal length. I have a loooooooooong way to go. I reached waistlength last time in three years...but that was without so much as a single trim. Now, who knows?

Ella

Growing up, my mom kept my sisters and my hair between our chins and shoulders. Mine is curly, so it was kind of cute. I didn't mind much.
The longest it has been is waist length my the end of high school, when I cut it to just under my chin. It was cute, but I looked much younger than I was (about 14 when I was really 18)
I still have that problem: "No, I'm not 17. I'm 21." sigh. I've been told not to worry about it too much. I wear my hair up to try to look older, but it doesn't help.
Meg

yeah, i was very happy too when they asked my ID at 22 for a 16+ movie 

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I haven't been carded in a long time.   But I'm not looking forward to the next milestone -- that's when they ask if you're old enough to get the senior citizen's discount

When I was eight my mother let her cousin cut my hair just after she graduated from beautician school.  They got to talking and she cut off way more than she intended.  It was basically the pixie cut.  I cried for weeks.

Ah, the bowl cut...named for the way it looks like a bowl was put on the head, and the hair trimmed all around. Also called a boxie (a half-bob half-pixie, where the cutter intends to make a bob then gets carried away) It's a trademark haircut for many Asian families because it's... easy? The bowl thing is just a descriptor, I've never heard of anyone actually putting a bowl on their child's head, but you NEVER KNOW! bwahahah

::dons a bowl to match Cowgal's funnel and manual mixer::

lalalalala!

Anais

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I have the same problem but the other way around.
Yesterday, my bf and I were talking to a friend who's known him forever. She knows he's graduated college already making him 23. When I told her I was a senior, she asked "in high school?" She kept asking me if I was graduating high school soon. No, lady! I'm graduating college soon and am not 18 but 21. sigh
Meg

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he he he, in belgium they call it
coupe à la jatte. jatte being a very old-fashioned french word for a bowl, although around brussels dutch speaking people still use the word jatte instead of tasse (a (little) coffee cup). 

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Ahhh the French language. Whenever someone speaks French, it sounds so much more...
<<adopting a Maurice Chavalier accent>>
tres chic
<<end bad French accent>>
Ya gotta hand it to those French folks, they shure do know how ta talk, three chicks indeedee.