Long Hair and Longer Hair…

Darla Reed, another Californian lady Thelma Schultz-Holman, a Dutch lady from

with 2 meters+ hair ‘s Hertogenbos, holds the Guinness record

in the Netherlands since 1987 with a hair-

length of 2,15 meters.

Georgia Sebrantke, a Greek born lady Cindy Christian (born 1957) from Lansing/ Michigan

who lives near Bremen in Germany held Her exquisitely long blonde hair of more than 1,80

the German record of longest hair since meters brought her a Guinness book mention in

1983 till the mid-nineties. Her hair grew mid-eighties

over the years to more than 3 meters in

length.

Lydia McPherson won the State Fair contest,

conducted by the Sacramento/Calif. Chamber of

Commerce, simply with the length of her locks in

the Twenties. She is shown here with musical

comedy star Peggy Chamberlain.

Skuldfried Sjorgien with her Guinness Soon Stephenson from Kansas City, with 2 meters hair.

Record hair of more than 3 metres in

the Twenties.

Crystal Gayle, a American country singer,

likes to show her floor-length mane.

Madame Milo, a circus lady

Dora Sutherland with a hair-length The Seven Sutherland Sisters, a group of singing ladies from Lockport/Niagara,

Of four and a half feet (135cm).

N.Y., were famous for their long hair, which they showed off in a sideshow of

Barnum&Bailey’s from about 1892 to 1907.

Victoria Sutherland was the most Grace Sutherland with her five feet

beautiful lady of the seven sisters long, auburn mane. All of he life she

and the one with the longest hair, was very proud of it. She never married

which reached seven feet (210cm). and lived until 1946.

When she was 45 years old she

married a young man of 19 years.

Grandmother and grandaunt of the French

romancier Georges-Emmanuel Clancier

Ann Mable

A woman named Mademoiselle Antoinette

(cabinet card about 1900)

Martha Mathilda Harper, a pioneer in the hair care industry, founded her company in 1888 with a secret hair tonic formula called The Harper Method. Her business grew to a worldwide network of hundreds of beauty salon franchises and beauty schools in North America and Europe. She was an immigrant from Ontario and worked as a servant girl when she was seven. When her hair grew to 5 feet in length she realized that is was something special – and started her business.

Three women photographed by Belle Johnson Alice Gardiner from Valley Falls, Kansas with a hair-length of

(Massillon, Ohio, about 1900) probably 8 feet. (about 1900)

Contestants in Berlin/Germany about 1910. Antaninas Vitkauskaites-Bacienlienes

holds the national Guinness record

for the longest hair in Lithuania

(2,15 meters) till to date

A long hair contest in Los Angeles in the Twenties.