Brittany's Hair Harvest – Country Girls Selling Their Hair

1916

It is at Easter time that the curious "hair harvest" of Brittany is "reaped" by the traveling merchants, who go from village to village buying the beautiful hair for which the Breton belles are famous. This is later destined to be made up into "transformations," "fringes" and other mysterious arrangements with which ladies less abundantly endowed by nature make up their shortcomings in the matter of "woman's crowning glory."

The clients of the hair buyers are chiefly country lasses in the remoter districts, who are only too pleased to sell their tresses in order to obtain a little money to spend at the Easter fairs. The "harvest" however, is said not to be so good as formerly, as with the spread of education and the love of display many girls prefer to keep their hair.— Wide World Magazine

—Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, July 29, 1916, page 3.