Ode to my hair, how I love thee 1983

During the summer of 1983 I loved the Thompson Twins, and not just their music. I loved their whole style package as well, I emulated it every way I could, especially Tom Bailey’s hair, the color, the cut and most famously his tail.


I started with one and ended up having two by the end of the summer (tails that is) and I had them for twenty-four years.

I treated them with far more care then the rest of my hair, I never colored them, I never bleached them and I braided them religiously (Tom didn’t braid his, he left it mostly loose, something I never did).

My lingering talent, I braid like a pro. I can braid with out looking, in the dark and probably underwater and in the tiniest, tightest and most even braids this side of the Mississippi.

Yes, I used the past tense up there. Twenty-four years and the final lengths were 32” and 26”.

You served me well dear sweet tails, go in peace.

P.S. I this wasn’t really an ode, I just liked the sound of ode in the title.