Changing young hairstyles hits barbers

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Changing young hairstyles hits barbers

Published: 10 Jan 2013 at 15.33
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA - Local barbers say the trend for young people to wear their hair longer is affecting business, and it's going to get worse now the Education Ministry has confirmed schools must be more lenient.

Some barbers complained that business was down as much as 20%.

Education Minister Phongthep Thepkanjana confirmed on Wednesday that school regulations introduced in 1972 required male students to have only crew cuts with hair no longer than five centimetres, while female students' hair cannot cascade past their neckline. If their schools allow them to have longer hair, their hair must be tied back.

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patchar
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Discussion 10 : 11 Jan 2013 at 22.3010
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Look much on what's inside their head not on their hair. forget about hair style.
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DonAleman
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Discussion 9 : 11 Jan 2013 at 11.299
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I cut, ( shear ),my own hair but, as to the students,it
may be time. encouraging more hair cuts, to start a " First
time " haircut scheme and offer a rebate !
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Boulda
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Discussion 8 : 11 Jan 2013 at 07.178
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It is easy to see why business was down 20%. While I was in Thailand a couple of months ago we walked down the street from the apparment. There were literally 20-30 hairdressers in a 300m stretch of road, about 10-15 places selling cell phone covers, 2 dentists 4 chemists. There are probably over 20% more businesses in the same area so the customers spread out more.
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Discussion 7 : 11 Jan 2013 at 05.417
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Paullane, what make you think I tried to pass as Thai female? I was born in Thailand speak fluent Thai without accent, early and later education are all completed in Thailand. I step away from this abstact painting of Thailand so I be able to see the whole painting objectively and I can't be influented against what I believe in. You look back inorder to see the brighter future.
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Discussion 6 : 11 Jan 2013 at 00.396
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Nitnoi, go buy a time machine and go back to the 19th century, i think you will be happier there. While you are at it please stop passing yourself off as a Thai female, i doubt there is even one BP poster still believes it.
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nitnoi
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Discussion 5 : 10 Jan 2013 at 21.205
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D33 oldthaihand, I disagree, the beauty of having uniforms which now many public schools here embrace the practice, especially girls school, They tend to compete among themselve not for the right reason but for materialistic reason, fashions,expensive outfits, not every family can effort the casual wears that could cost a lot for parent who already struggling to educate their kids so they will grow up being better informed citizen than parents do. control the hair length must have been hygienic reason, Old english during Victorian, the women wear sachet because they took a bath once a month if they were lucky to have water to bath at all.
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Tomas

Discussion 4 : 10 Jan 2013 at 20.514
... for profit of small minded people you can sacrifice young individual expression and future of the nation ... how many more generations you have to waste to see your emptiness ...
from iPhone application.
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Discussion 3 : 10 Jan 2013 at 20.033
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The elementary and high school uniforms are an anachronism imported from England, circa 1900 as the height of education fashion at the time, and then culturally petrified, as so much else is in Thai culture to become something silly and absurd. They look completely stupid; especially the girls sailor suits and Buster Brown haircuts. At least the hair styles are thankfully going.
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Discussion 2 : 10 Jan 2013 at 18.112
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It always was an uneducated idea to force students to wear such inappropriately military haircut.
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nitnoi
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Discussion 1 : 10 Jan 2013 at 18.051
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The next one after hair is uniforms, that got to go too. students will have identity crisis , it means no one can identify them if they are students, hobo,rock musicians or just simply criminal. Do they wear ID in school?
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