The Hair, The Freedom, And The Factory

Some people are really easy to be defined by their hairstyle. I personally find myself easy to recognize my friends from their back, by looking at their hairstyle. The thing that quite bothers me is the fact that some people just can't accept others' style; dreads for white people, straight hair for black people (racism much?), or even bald women.
I have this  little story about hair. Last year I got my internship at an IT company under the Ministry of Telecommunication. It was a good place with a good (geek) people. But there's one thing that I found weird. When I went home from the office, I found out that a lot of people who walked together with me at the sidewalk had almost the same hairstyle. I bet it was hard to recognize someone from their back. I mean, today's companies are like a factory, a soy sauce factory not Warhol factory, they try to create people look the same. It felt like school all over again. I realized that it was pretty weird feeling for me because college life is much more free than that (despite the fact that some people in my faculty were so judgmental); there was barely no rules. We could have any hairstyle that we want, even we could wear flip-flops like Mark Zuckerberg to the class. I'm not suggesting that all companies should be like that (imagine if Vogue has an employee who wears flip-flops in their office, duh), I guess my point is that each company should let their employee to have sense of freedom; a bold identity that can help them to build their characters. And one of those things that I suggest is to let their employee have a free hairstyle. It shouldn't matter if men have long hair as long as they still consider about fashion rules.

Andy and the crew of The Factory, NYC.

I hope I could see more things like The Warhol Factory in some companies. It's super creative and everything is unique in its own way. And I also hope that 'school rules' would be stopped so people can have their own strong character. Freedom in hair is a must.