On Columbus Day, the New York Times has run an article about how braids has now become popular. The Spirit Columbus Day, in case you they asked, is also the spirit "deal with something that is for centuries as though only because it is rich white men just very interested in this, she." this article
time note that first appeared to return to "immediately after the recession started." Now, it is "blossom and in more complicated an each iteration in runway red carpet, leading premium prices in salon." That is true: such as children deceived by only a girl in summer camp they cabins that have the ability to French-braid IZIWIG, aspiring for Women to pay $35 to get their hair braided in W hotel braid bar (one kill me). If you want to "fashion to explore," though, it will cost you $50.
Well, according to hairstylist Ted Gibson, "traditionally women will think about braids as a kind so ignorant. Now they have crossed over to fashion space." to the right. It is clear that the "women," she - and all the others quoted in this article - means "white women." As the second to think about this will realize that, black women have been braiding their hair, and not without reason, since 500 BC to say, as this article, which is ONLY a popular and trendy with all trendy women now is to forget and reduce experience black hair of women with nature.
Braids! They have been popular! And they are not traditionally "some of the things so thoughtless strange lil you have to do with the hair you when you are not going to a fashion show." The interesting thing - and real - a hair part written in response to Rogers v. American Airlines, in 1981 the accusation that he reigned black flight never experienced discrimination after he was fired to wear her hair braided hair in. Justification for this decision is that style has been popularized by Bo Derek in the movie "10 ". Because Bo Derek is white and is known that cornrows, defense holds, firing plaintiff to wear human hair short wigs not racist.
In order to anticipate any claim that this article is not about all kinds of hair braided hair, but about only one type of specific plaits (that is, for a long time to explore, will be done for a long time, then it is possible that hair straight): sorry, but that bullshit. This marked a much higher than in the problem that fashion trend this section will not consider black hair of women nature. Even though it is not Rihanna sentences opening in the build, was not intended to provide a race or the context of the history - only one aesthetics (Rihanna a long, straight spin at the time). He took type heal myopia, especially for states that "the point braids today is that there is no one way is the right time to make them" and failed to recognize millions to black women has for centuries.