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Show Bobbed Hair Traced Bobbed hair has been traced to Revolutionary war times by Capt. L. C. Baird, army officer, who found In old records of the Continental army, stored for years in the Schuylkill arsenal ar-senal at Philadelphia, that bobbing of the hair was made a matter of general gen-eral orders for the soldier of 1770. One of the decrees issued at West Point, however, directed that noncommissioned non-commissioned officers and privates of the first regiment have their hair queued behind not to exceed seven inches long and close to the head. |