Perhaps those who obsess over haircuts ought to do just that. But when Hillary Clinton reinvents her coif more often than her husband reinvents government, and Clark’s hair makes headlines, trendsurfers are bound to ask, “What does it all mean?” Joni Johnston, a Dallas psychologist who specializes in women’s issues, says a new style “is a confidence boost. Or a declaration that it’s a ’new me’.” New York psychoanalyst and author Jessica Benjamin says makeovers are “a visible show of femininity” to disarm men threatened by powerful women. Allen Edwards, whose scissorhands made Farrah Fawcett a mane attraction and who gave Marcia the $150 restyling, sees it more simply. “She wanted a new look and she got it. It was a positive thing at the end of a hard week something everyone needs once in a while.” Maybe Clark should have told those reporters to “get a haircut.”
