Young black women, feeling more and more under represented in the fashion world, took their frustrations to the street on the opening day of Fashion Week (Sept 9th). 
Getting “good hair” often means transforming one’s tightly coiled roots; but it is also more freighted, for many African-American women and some men, than simply a choice about grooming. Straightening hair has been perceived as a way to be more acceptable to certain relatives, as well as to the white establishment.
“If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed,” the comedian Paul Mooney, sporting an Afro, says in the documentary “Good Hair,” which won a jury prize at the Sundance film festival and comes out in October. “If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.”
SOURCE: Catherine Saint Louis for THE NY TIMES
Writer Catherine Saint Louis goes in-depth about what politics and cultural innuendo are involved in a simple choice - how to wear your hair as a black woman today. Included with this article is a multimedia where 9 women discuss their tresses.
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