The Marine Corps has relaxed its rules for girls’s hair, together with tight restrictions banning ponytails, a change that troops have been requesting for years.
In an administrative message launched Wednesday, the department once more emphasised that, whereas all hairstyles should be “neat {and professional},” feminine Marines are inspired to not pull their hair again so tight as to place pointless stress on their follicles.
Ladies with medium size hair — hair that doesn’t prolong past 2 inches beneath the bottom of the collar’s decrease edge — at the moment are allowed “one unsecured half ponytail or as much as two unsecured half braids” whereas of their utility uniform, flight fits, or exercise garments.
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Till now, the Marine Corps was the one department that didn’t enable ladies to put on ponytails of any form in common uniform. The final uniform replace, introduced in March, rolled out extra fingernail polish choices and the choice of better-fitting maternity uniforms for girls.
For ladies with quick hair, the brand new guidelines now enable for twists to be worn with any uniform.
A graphic posted to the uniform board web site confirmed the half ponytail as a ponytail with extra hair hanging unfastened behind it. A half-braid was proven as a braid beginning on the scalp however secured partway down and the remaining hair hanging unfastened.
Medium-haired ladies are additionally cautioned to not let their hair obscure their collar rank insignia.
Ladies who’ve hair past two inches in size at the moment are allowed to have it “secured up in order that it doesn’t prolong past two inches beneath the bottom of the collar’s decrease edge.” A spokesman for the Marine Corps defined that this doesn’t describe a ponytail however somewhat a mode of hair that ensures the size does not exceed two inches beneath the collar.
Though not a change, the regulation additionally famous that “there is no such thing as a requirement to have tightly pulled again or slicked again hair at any size” — a reference to the bun-style hairdo that grew to become virtually synonymous with feminine Marines.
The type concerned loads of work, the usage of a sock and, usually, copious quantities of hairspray. It additionally places loads of stress on the hair, which each the Marines and medical teams say results in harm and hair loss.
— Konstantin Toropin may be reached at konstantin.toropin@navy.com. Observe him on Twitter @ktoropin.
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