Who knows whether Shaun White, having failed to win a medal in Sochi, is now ruing his decision, a little over a year ago, to shear off his trademark red tresses for charity.
Men wore kilts and twirled women flaunting tresses.
If you happen to visit the hairdresser this weekend, and if the conversation happens to drift, as Toni's scissors dance over your tresses, to the movies, do not assume that you are merely being lulled with idle chatter.
One of the largest hair distributors, Great Lengths International, claims to buy their hair exclusively from Tirumala, where the temples sell the shorn tresses of Hindu pilgrims.
He could do things that astounded other artists: as when the great Giovanni Bellini asked to see the "special brushes" with which Dürer painted long tresses of hair, and found they were simply common-or-garden half-stiver ones, floated over the paper to make rippling parallel lines.
Christian theologians still argue over what Saint Paul meant when he told the people of Corinth that for men to have long hair was shameful, while for women, flowing tresses were something glorious (although they should keep them covered, perhaps to avoid tempting wayward angels).
But in an attempt to get these undisciplined tresses under control, the Iranian authorities last month released a list of approved haircuts for men: mostly neat variations on a short-back-and-sides.
Her chestnut tresses were his idea: "Your hair's terrible.
They contain his hair, which grows in thick tresses under his cloak.
But weren't stadium's tresses made of steel?
Some species bloom in autumn, such as nodding ladies' tresses, or autumn tresses (S. cernua), in North America and autumn ladies' tresses (S. spiralis) in Europe.
