Chapter 12 Ahead of Fashion 流行の先頭に

CHAPTER 12 AHEAD OF
FASHION 流行の先頭に
AHEAD OF FASHION 1
Hair is one way to show others about
yourself.
 There are many styles: long or short,
braids or dreads.
三つ網 、ドレッド
 You can curl hair or dye it, decorate it or
巻き毛にする 染める
shave it all off.
剃り落とす

Your hairstyle can show that you are a member
of a group.
 Long curling hair is common
一般的である
among Toda women in southern India.

トダ族の女性達
But tight coils dyed with clay are popular
巻き毛
粘土
with the Hamar of Ethiopia.
エチオピアのハマー族
 Hairstyles are often connected to religion.
~に結び付けられている

In the Rastafarian religion, people don’t
ラスタファリ教
cut their hair, but wear it in dreadlocks.

ドレッドロック
ス
Buddhist monks shave off their hair, but
僧
Sikhs don’t cut the hair under their turbans.
シーク教徒


There are three types of hair: curly oval
楕円形
の
African hair, straight round Asian hair, and
Western people’s hair, which is half-way
中間
の
between these two.
 Whatever the hair type, everyone keeps it
どの〜であっても
保つ
clean.
And, as we get older, our hair turns grey.
年をとる
変わる
 For men it may even stop growing.
~するのを止める
 So, some people wear wigs.
かつら
 And, some wigs are always in fashion.
流行している

Hair is the top fashion accessory and at different
times there were different fashion
異なる時代に
looks.

様子
The Teddy Boys were the 1950s rebels.
 Short hair and short skirts were popular in the
1960s.

Extreme hair and shocking music were
過激な
common for the punks of the 1970s.
パンク
 In the 1980s many types of hair were
fashionable.
流行の、流行の

Now straight hair is fashionable.
 Some men wear a variety of facial hair.

顔ひ
げ
 But whatever your hairstyle, it is your message
to the world about who you are.