MEN'S HAIR
Sir,-I cannot agree with Mr. L. D. Austin’s assertion that going without a hat is an act of carelessness. Had nature intended that our "thatch" be protected, surely we would have been provided with some form of built-in protection, Some of the baldest men I know are confirmed hat wearers, Do women wear hats to protect their heads? I doubt it. Do they wear bathing caps to protect the hair or the hair-do? In six months spent in Fiji I cannot recall seeing a bald Fijian nor one who wore a bathing cap. So far as I know nobody has yet marketed a hair lotion containing onion juice. There seems to be; an opening there for enterprise.
C. E.
THATCHER
(Whakatane).
Sir,-Mr. L. D, Austin wonders why Dr. Turbott did not warn the hatless that they were in danger of losing their hair. At a guess I would say it was because Dr. Turbott attached no importance to such a fear. Has Mr. Austin any convincing evidence to back up his theory? I gave up wearing a hat in my early forties, and now, about forty years later, still retain what I am sure Mr. Austin would concede to be "a good
hirsute thatch."
A.H.
R.
Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 911, 25 January 1957, Page 5
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