Spring Break
Dreadlocks make their return on campus
Jen Cintora
Issue date: 2/22/07 Section: News
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"God had been challenging me about materialism," the equine science and pre-vet freshman said.
Sophomore Heather Taylor had a friend do her dreadlocks the day she signed out of a four-year military stint.
"In the Army, you're not allowed to have any type of freedom of expression," said Taylor, a global tourism major. "I wanted to show I wasn't the same as everyone else."
Bonnie Sizer, a freshman art and speech communications major, had a different approach to her matted or knotted strands of hair.
"I just wanted to try something new with my hair," she said.
Taylor, who moved from New York, noticed that dreads were much more trendy on CSU's campus than other places she had been. She said the revived popularity is due to students seeking new venues of self-expression.
"I think people are finally starting to educate themselves. Maybe younger people are doing it for the ultimate way to express themselves," Taylor said. "Maybe the stereotype of the stupid stoner hippie will go away."
Jean Vick, a longtime Fort Collins hairstylist, specializes in diverse services like weaves and relaxations. She said that from what she has noticed through customers, dreadlocks are no longer limited to certain nationalities.
"I see a lot of Caucasians coming in for them, surprisingly," she said.
Aden, who has only had her dreads for three weeks, wondered about the reaction she would get from other students on campus.
"I thought that a lot of people would be discriminating, but I've found that others with dreads are more discriminating," she said. "People just automatically assume I'm vegetarian and environmentally-friendly, which I am, but they just assume now."
Taylor has had her dreads for almost two-and-a-half years and said she has received mixed comments from others. During a visit to Country Buffet with her husband, an older woman approached her and recommended that Taylor cut her hair because it was "unbelievable" and "dirty."
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jarod lueker
posted 8/16/08 @ 12:22 AM MST
dude i just moved to fort collins and my dreads are only 5 weeks old, i never hear anything bad from people, only things like dude! that kid is sporting dreads or lets go say hi to that dude with dreads, my friends called me a fruit cake at first but they have more respect now that they are formed. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 8/16/08 @ 2:36 PM MST
To each his own. LOL! I have nothing against dreadlocks , I just think it looks like a rats nest.
I was born in India and they used to have holy men that sat on the side of the road , and they would put cow dung in their hair and it looked almost exactly like dreadlocks. (Continued…)
sk8rgurl13
posted 8/18/08 @ 7:55 PM MST
I liked the article. Cute. Jen Cintora's one of the best writers of the bunch.
Craig Hawley, you weren't born in India. Puhhhlleeeeeeeeaaaaazzzzze. (Continued…)
Bdygard
Craig Hawley
posted 8/19/08 @ 5:58 PM MST
Sk8gurl I see you are now having gay fantasy's. Of course I was born in India. Of course being the airheaded sk8 moron you are you would have no idea that a kid born to American citizen parents overseas must fill out a form at the embassy to get back into the United States. (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 8/20/08 @ 10:02 PM MST
I am glad to know you know where to get head in Fort Collins , your mother must be so proud. LMAO!
Emily
posted 11/14/08 @ 1:11 PM MST
Can anyone tell me what stylists do the dreadlocks? Or if anyone local does them?
Thanks
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