SATURDAY: Sirens and their HAIR

Ah, spring! When a woman’s fancy turns to . . . the salon. Hair styles and symbolism have a strange and powerful place in the lives of women. The “women’s service” magazines in the supermarket racks will be studied by future anthropologists to parse our cultural obsession with youth and weight, but hair is all mixed up in there somewhere.

Saturday, several writers will come forth with some tangly truths about their relationship with the crowning glory. Watch for Hair Pieces in this space tomorrow! And when you’ve read our obsessions, add your own.