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And Mrs. McHenry says...
Just as my husband, Rev. McHenry says, “The
hair which the Good Book calls a woman’s
‘crown of glory’ of which amorists in prose and
poetry have had so much to say, and which,
outside the Mongolian and Negroid races, has
always been one of the chief marks of distinction
between sexes, is no longer so. The old-fashioned,
demure braids once so characteristic of the
budding girl are gone. Nor is the hair coiled, either
high or low, at the back of the head. This
medullary region long so protected is now exposed
to wind and weather, either by puffs on either
side, or, still more, by the Dutch cut which leaves
the hair shortest here.”5
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5 Hall, G.S., (1922, June). Flapper Americana novissima,
Atlantic monthly, 771-780.