Nurses And Hair

[bainbrig]

I’m sure that in the old days nurses couldn’t wear fringes etc - too unhygenic. Yet nowadays it seems there are no rules.

When did it change?

[Mamyalynne]

It may depend which period you are recalling and what department the Nurse worked in as to how much hair had to be off their foreheads etc.

!950s image here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/11786007@N07/41569654782

[spathiphyllum]

you can't have hair without having some kind of fringe

[ummmm]

Why is it unhygienic? It's only hair.

My house must be a death trap the amount I moult!! :-)

[andy-hughes]

spath - // you can't have hair without having some kind of fringe //

You'd better tell that to my head then - I have never had a fringe, and my forehead has been devoid of any hair at all for over twenty years!

[ummmm]

Spath....errr wrong!

[spathiphyllum]

you can have a full fringe a side fringe a long fringe or a short fringe or even a middle parted fringe...

I'm confused.

[spathiphyllum]

Is this you andy?

https://thebaldgent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/long-sides-bald-top.jpg

[ummmm]

Or no fringe!!

Do you know what a fringe is?

[spathiphyllum]

the front part of a persons hair

[hc4361]

Surely a fringe is hair cut to the eyebrows or above. Any longer and it's not a fringe, the hair needs a parting.

[ummmm]

No....wrong again. It's cut to be that way, mainly by women. I don't have a fringe, my hair is all the same length....no fringe.

[spathiphyllum]

So a better defenition for you owuld be..

"the front part of a persons hair, until it gets longer than the eye brows" ?

[ummmm]

Google it....

[Mamyalynne]

Always one rule for the Nurses but the Doctors made their own rules.

Here's a fond memory of Dr Sqad back in the day.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/c0/3f/74c03faeacdd6f2454e7b8a80ff57199.png

[spathiphyllum]

"Google it...."

"the front part of a person's hair cut so as to hang over the forehead."

Oh.. hair over the forehead

[Calicogirl]

I'm really confused Spath- have you really never heard the term ' fringe' or 'bangs' before regarding someone's hair? x

[andy-hughes]

spath - // Is this you andy? //

Sadly I am not that good looking!

But now, when I realised my hair was on the way out, I had it cropped short all over, and have had it thus for over twenty-five years now.

[spathiphyllum]

to me bangs is a full fringe, and a fringe is the front of someones hair regardless of if it's swept, curtained, banged or otherwise styled.

[hc4361]

If you have all your hair pulled into a pony tail or bun you don't have a fringe; if you have a one length bob with a side or centre parting you don't have a fringe.
If you have very short hair with a side or centre parting you don't have a fringe.
These men do not have a fringe
https://www.menshairstylesnow.com/side-part-haircut/