I'm just curious as to where and when hippies started growing dreads. I don't think that the hippies in the 60's had them, so why do so many have them these days?
Sorry I can't help you. But you are right back in the 60s I saw no one with them. Maybe a couple but it was not the norm. We favored long straight hair. Or fros. Peace
its probably because the world hadn't been introduced to Rastafarianism on a widespread scale back in the 60s......see the 70s
Hippies started to grow dreads when Bob Marley and reggae came in the picture. Jamaicans and Etiopians have had dreads since erhm well ever
not sure when they first started up among the hippies but people have had dreds for a longgg time. they are just a very natural way for hair to be
Eh true, but so many people assume that dreads are really hippie things, when in fact the real hippies didn't really ever have them :S
Everything evolves and changes with time, including generalizations. Lots of today's hippies have them and it doesn't matter what the 'real hippies' did. It's all about the now. and yeah, my guess would be that when hippie culture met rasta culture, the hair began to cross over.
Gah, by "real" hippies I meant the original 60's type. I guess the fact that dreads have become mainstream among hippies does make them a hippie thing, irrespective of the fact that they weren't worn by the original ones
see post #6 "real "hippies were not introduced to Rasta culture until the 70s....its that simple (I should say the WORLD hadn't been introduced to Rasta)
i disagree i think that dreads are natural and beautiful. but everyone is entitled to there own opinion. what is a real hippie? i think if your a hippie, no matter what day or year your born you are a real hippie. as long as we are all in it for the same cause, peace my friend, peace.
