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Article: All the fun of the fair
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- March 15, 2003
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All the fun of the fiar William Leith ON BLONDES by Joanna Pitman Bloomsbury, L12.99, pp. 292, ISBN 0747560765
In this chunky book, Joanna Pitman tells us something we already suspect to be true, and she does it beautifully. We are, she says, obsessed with blonde hair. For instance, even though only one in 20 of us is naturally blonde, a third of women lighten their hair. Why? Because blonde hair gets you more attention. Blonde hair is a magnet for sex and money. When she bleached her own hair, Pitman tells us, the change was dramatic. People stared. `The way they looked,' she says, `it felt as if my head was radiating some kind of spectral glow.' As a blonde, she got `preferential ...
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