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29 March 2006

I'm wearing pigtails today! [More:]A friend of mine told me that there's an age cap on wearing your hair in pigtails, and that mine is fast approaching.

Is this true, bunnies?

I'm making up for all the years I couldn't have them as a kid, because my parents insisted I have a bowl cut/hamill-syle wedge!
Pigtails are cute. We want pictures.

Also, is there an age cap on footsie pajamas? I'm asking for a friend.
posted by jonmc 29 March | 15:29
I wear them at work every now and then, but only low pigtails, not high ones.

And speaking of Pippi, am I the only one who was very scared of those movies?
posted by TrishaLynn 29 March | 15:30
I always loved Pippi, she's partially at fault for why I dyed my hair red for so long.

As for a pic, jonmc, I'll see what I can do. Some of youse have seen this one before...just gotta find it.
posted by SassHat 29 March | 15:32
I have a sudden craving for cocoa.
posted by jonmc 29 March | 15:32
jon, speaking of pics, we MUST see you your friend in the footie PJs.

SassHat, pigtails are hot. (I hope I'm not a pedophile.)
posted by mike9322 29 March | 15:35
Pippi!

When I was about 26, a girl I knew told me I was too old to wear the two long french braids that I was wearing at the time. That girl was a bitch, though. Wear your hair however you want!
posted by amro 29 March | 15:35
It is "Πιπι, φακιδομυτη" in greek. I loved it as a child. I used to ask my mom to get me some freckles. I think this is why I adore freckled faces. And now you got the tune stuck in my head... Great!
posted by carmina 29 March | 15:36
Here's what I look like in pigtails. It's a couple year old, but the only one I have until I get a new camera cord.
posted by SassHat 29 March | 15:38
wrt the age thing, sasshat -- yeah, I think that's personal for everyone. I would feel dumb wearing pigtails now at age 30, but my friend S. wears them (and rocks them) all the time, and she's a few years older than me.

So who knows? Maybe you'll be a pigtail-wearer for the next 5 decades...
posted by gaspode 29 March | 15:38
What's the cutoff age for having a braid in your beard? 'Cause mine is just now getting long enough.
posted by BoringPostcards 29 March | 15:39
I don't think there's an age cap on pigtails, but be forewarned that straight men are societally conditioned to see them sexually.
posted by shmegegge 29 March | 15:41
rawwwr.
posted by jonmc 29 March | 15:41
What's the cutoff age for having a braid in your beard?

There is none, as long as it's accesorized with a horned helmet and the Hammer Of Thor.
posted by jonmc 29 March | 15:47
straight men are societally conditioned to see them sexually

Are you serious? I had no idea.

I've always thought of them as...a little silly-looking for an adult, but functional. On a hot, sticky day braiding keeps me cooler than putting my hair up.

Suddenly I'm reassessing a few situations.
posted by tangerine 29 March | 15:52
Think "handlebars."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 29 March | 15:53
well, not sexually, but they come across as cut girlish thing, which can be very attractive.
posted by jonmc 29 March | 15:54
IRFH read my mind.

maybe I'm just dirty. but I also just see tham as attractively cute a la jonmc.
posted by shmegegge 29 March | 15:57
mrs richat wears them sometimes, and she's older than 30...I would be more specific, but I think it's bad form to out your wife's age on the internet. I think she pulls it off well.
posted by richat 29 March | 16:10
straight men are societally conditioned to see them sexually

I blame Barely Legal magazine.
posted by matildaben 29 March | 16:28
then stop subscribing

god i feel filthy
posted by ethylene 29 March | 16:30
*revises matildaben as Laura Ingalls up in the hayloft fantasy*
posted by jonmc 29 March | 16:33
If you like 'em, wear 'em. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. I think you look good with them, SassHat.
posted by deborah 29 March | 17:10
Huh...I never knew there was an age cutoff. You've got to have the personality for it, that's all.

Maybe I just think that because I'm waaayy over the cutoff, but hane no problem with the pigtails.

By the way, I've always been confused about what people mean by 'pigtails'. There might be regional variations. Some people seem to define them as strictly braids. But others seem to classify any multiple ponytail as 'pigtail'.

When I was an actual little girl, I often rocked the 70s look we called 'dogears', which was two long ponytails on either side. Thick yarn tie optional.
posted by Miko 29 March | 17:11
I was thinking of two braids.

When I was an actual kid my braids were LONG -- down to my waist. I got called "Pocahontas" a lot. Now that I'm way over the cutoff, they're silly stubby little things.

However, I just got a haircut and it'll be a month or so till I'll have enough to braid.
posted by tangerine 29 March | 17:21
There is no age limit. Absolutely not.

Here in Portland, pigtails and ponytails are sported by hipster girls of all ages and are widely considered cute and a little hot.
posted by Specklet 29 March | 19:14
Citizens demand pictures of a smiling SassHat.
posted by Eideteker 29 March | 19:16
Sorry, Eid. I don't smile.
posted by SassHat 29 March | 21:45
Nope, no limit.

Sorry, Eid. I don't smile.


Do you sneer? Leer?
posted by porpoise 29 March | 23:07
I like to think I smolder, porpoise.

Why aren't you in IRC?
posted by SassHat 29 March | 23:14
smolder, eh? If I come to IRC, will you smolder for me?
posted by porpoise 30 March | 01:44
Huh. || Do you like me? [ ] Yes [ ] No (check one).

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