Ahmed Matiur Rahman
Considering what we know about women, it probably won’t surprise you to learn that women have dressed and decorated their hair from as far back as we have any records in history!Combs of some sort or other, for example, have been used by women since the very earliest times. Primitive peoples have made combs of bone, wood, or even bronze.
Primitive people have always paid a great deal of attention to their hair. Some of them have dyed their hair black, white or red. In the Belgian Congo in Africa, natives used the oil from the castor bean for dressing their hair, and many tribes would plaster their hair with mud.
In ancient Greek times, women used long hairpins that were quite elaborate and sometimes had sculpture on them. On special occassions they would adorn their hair with garlands and wreaths of flowers, and they also used ribbons for their hair.
As for what women did about arranging their hair in ancient times, it married from place to place and customs were constantly changing. But even in ancient times, it seems that curled hair was considered more attractive than straigt hair. There are pictures and statues that show women rows of small curls arranged over the brows and temples, and these curls must have been made and kept in place by some artificial means. And not only did men also curl their hair, they even used to curl their breads!
As civilization advanced, hair styles and methods of arranging and dressing the hair became more varied. In some places the style was straight; in others the fashion was curled hair.
The custom of short hair for men and long hair for women is quiet recent in the history of mankind and goes back only to the end of the Middle Ages.