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Beautiful Bridals

In the world of beauty there are many variations on a theme, but one thing seems clear. Every culture has its bad hair day. In central Australia balding Aranda Aborigines once wore wigs made of emu feathers. Likewise, the Azande in Sudan wore wigs made of sponge. To grow long hair among the Ashanti in Nigeria made one suspect of contemplating murder, while in Brazil the Bororo cut hair is a sign of mourning.

Hair has other shades of meaning. Although the archetypal hero in Western civilization is tall, dark, and handsome like Cary Grant, blond women have sometimes been imagined as having more fun.

Blond is the color of fairy-tale princesses like Cinderella and Rapunzel, not to mention the siren in Farewell, My Lovely, of whom Raymond Chandler wrote: "It was a blond. A blond to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window."

Jean Harlow was a blond. So were Carole Lombard and Marilyn Monroe (only their hairdressers knew for sure), who said she liked to "feel blond all over." A dark-haired colleague admits to "blonde anxiety," adding her observation that in California blondes have blonde insecurity. "They don't feel that they're blond enough."

Hair-care product companies estimate that in the U.S. 40 percent of women who color their hair choose blond, a choice women also made in ancient Greece. From a biological perspective some researchers say blondness suggests a childlike appearance. Many newborns are blond and darken with time.

What other signals does hair send? In most societies, short hair means restraint and discipline. Think West Point, Buddhist monks, and prison. Long hair means freedom and unconventional behavior: Think Lady Godiva and Abbie Hoffman. Hair says I'm grown-up, and let's get that first haircut. It's the stages of life, from pigtails to ponytail to gray hair.

"This is what I looked like at age five," Noliwe Rooks, a visiting assistant professor of history and African-American studies at Princeton, tells me.

We're at her dining table drinking tea and talking about hair—specifically African-American hair—and how it defines culture, politics, and the tension between generations. The photograph she shows me is of a little girl with a big puffball of an Afro staring up at the camera.

"My mother was a political activist, and so I wore my hair like this until I was 13," Rooks says, smiling.

"My grandmother had this huge issue with it. I was her only grandchild, and she couldn't stand it. It wasn't cute. It wasn't feminine. You couldn't put little bows in it. Every summer my mother would take me down to Florida to stay with her. As soon as my mother left, my grandmother would take me to Miss Ruby's beauty parlor and straighten my hair. Issues between my mother, my grandmother, and me got worked out around my hair."

While in college Rooks decided to let her hair "lock," or grow into a mass of pencil-thin dreadlocks.

"Before I was able to tell my grandmother, she had a stroke. I found myself on a plane flying to her bedside, rehearsing how I was going to explain the look. The doctors didn't know the extent of the damage. She hadn't spoken. All she could make were garbled sounds. I couldn't wear a hat to hide my hair. It was Florida. It was 80 degrees. I walked into her hospital room, expecting the worst, when all of a sudden she opened her eyes and looked at me.

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013

Bridal Outfits Pakistani Dresses Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013