![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the young men interviewed for the article claimed that pelonas deserved to be punished because bobbed hair had the same provenance as the “taxicab,” “rapid lunch,” and “jazz-band.” As Excelsior’s reporter phrased it, Yankee cultural imperialism threatened to “shave” Mexico’s national character.Īs the story developed over the following days, women’s fashions and their impact on national identity quickly became a secondary theme. Footnote 1 According to an extensive article in the daily newspaper Excelsior published on July 23, these male students saw publicly shaming these women as a “national duty.” Footnote 2 Hair cropped “a la Bob ,” they argued, represented a rejection of the “dark braid” and “discreet nape” that they considered the “glories” of Mexican feminine beauty. In July 1924, Mexico City’s major newspapers reported that male students from the National Medical School and the National Preparatory School had attacked several “ pelonas”-Mexico’s version of the flapper-dousing them with water and trying to shave their already shorn heads (Rubenstein Reference Rubenstein, Olcott, Vaughan and Cano2006 Serna Reference Serna2014). ![]()
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