'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hokay, I'm missing something here. Who can wear pigtails? chart. How can Zooey Deschanel's pigails be more questionable than Tila Tequila's? How can they be more infantilising than Baby Spice's? And I don't even really like Zooey. Some of those are just kids. Some of those are women working the Lolita angle. Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two. She's awfully dramatic and naysaying with the whole "can't do this over 19" angle.
Signed,
Mutton.
Timelies all!
Brief, heavy rainstorm here. Meanwhile, Nova is staring intently at a bug. Yeah, my life is exciting.
Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two.
raises hand I'm wearing pigtails right now, because it's an easy way to keep my hair semi-controlled under my hat without putting it up in a bun.
The pigtail thing cracked me up! The article is, well, tone deaf.
The author is also apparently a child, which makes it even creepier.
Definition needed. In my lexicon, "pigtails" means hair parted in the center and braided. Hair parted in the center and put in twin ponytails is...ponytails, high on the head, over the ears, low on the neck, all ponytails, plural.
Hair gathered into a single braid is a braid, or a pigtail. Plait is a synonym for braid, either verb or noun. Hair gathered into a single ponytail, to one side or centered, high or low, is a ponytail.
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails? What if someone says "a single pigtail", do they mean a braid? Or a single ponytail?
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails?
Yeah.
What if someone says "a single pigtail"
Then they are crazy and you should probably run away.
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails? What if someone says "a single pigtail", do they mean a braid? Or a single ponytail?
Two bunches of hair, gathered and held with an elastic or clip (but not braided) = pigtails.
One bunch of hair, gathered and held with an elastic or clip (but not braided) = ponytail.
Any number of bunches of braided hair = braid(s).
My definitions:
1 or 2 bunches of hair, that are short-- pigtail(s)
1 or 2 bunches of hair that are long -- ponytail(s)
any braided hair-- braid(s)
The writer is using pigtails to mean what we called "in two" growing up. I never would have called them pigtails, because hey, kinky hair. "In two" was a superset. Pigtails is for straight hair.
I have no idea, however, what pigs did differently from ponies, exactly, to get all this.
eta: Oh, and braids==dozens and dozens of tiny plaits or cornrows.
