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Selling One's Own Hair
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Large, elaborate hairstyles came into fashion in the West in the 1700s and 1800s. These hairdos required wigs or hairpieces to achieve, and this created a market for human hair — preferably beautiful long hair. While growing long hair specifically with the intention of selling it is possible, it's not a common business plan. Most hair sellers are women (or perhaps occasionally men) who grew long hair for themselves, and then sold it in a moment of economic desperation. While not entirely a Forgotten Trope, it has mostly dropped out of usage today. Shorter haircuts came into fashion and women are less likely to have long hair. The advent of more convincing synthetic wigs has partially dampened the demand. That said, the hair trade is still a thriving market today, with India being the main exporter and the US being the main importer. Many modern examples lift it verbatim from the 1906 short story "The Gift of the Magi". Please put "Gift of the Magi" homages under Gift of the Magi Plot. Sub-Trope of Prized Possession Giveaway and Important Haircut. While it depends on the character's outlook, it's usually a downplayed Traumatic Haircut. Depending on the framing, this may have allusions to other, more dangerous ways that desperate people with nothing else to sell but their own bodies, such as prostitution and selling organs. |
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"The Gift of the Magi" (1906): Della and Jim are a young married couple, and it's Christmas. They really want to get each other nice gifts, but they're broke. In an Act of True Love, Della cuts and sells long beautiful hair for $20, and uses the money to buy her husband a pricy gift: an accessory for his antique pocket watch. Ironically, he sold his watch to buy her a hair accessory. They're left with two beautiful, caring gifts that can't be used. | |
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Les Misérables (1862): Fantine is a Struggling Single Mother. She cuts and sells her hair for 10 francs because she needs money to support her young daughter Cosette. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Ghem-Estif (formerly Haut-Estif) lets a collector cut her previously-uncut hair (Haut hair being highly valued for rarity and cultural significance) for a chunk of money that her family needs to travel to Barrayar to reunite the family after surviving a coup. | |
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The King of Queens episode "Sold-Y-locks": Carrie Heffernan sells her hair to a wig-maker to turn a quick buck. (In a case of Real Life Writes the Hairstyle, actress Leah Remini chose to go to a shorter bobbed hairstyle in real life; the episode was quickly written to explain her new hairstyle In-Universe.) | |
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Little Women (1868): During a family emergency, Jo sells her hair to a wigmaker for $25. Her father has been injured in the Civil War, and the family needs money to send her mother to Washington, D.C. to take care of him. | |
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Erandi's Braids (1999): Erandi is a little girl, on the brink of her 7th birthday, with thick hair down to her waist. When her mother needs money for a new fishing net, they head to the barber's shop. Erandi thinks her mother is about to sell Erandi's hair and is terrified. Actually, she tries to sell her own hair, but the barber says it's not long enough. Erandi summons her courage and offers her own tresses. The book ends with an author's note about the context: in the 1940s and 50s, the hair of indigenous Tarascan women from Michoacán was specifically sought after. They have great hair genes, and also a culture that prizes hair long, making it more painful to part with it. | |
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Little House on the Prairie episode "Little Women": Ginny is in a play, and wants her mother to come watch it. Thinking her mother would go to the play if she had a nice dress, Ginny secretly sells her hair to a wig maker and buys her one. | |
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The Little Mermaid (1837): After the mermaid's sisters learn of her awful deal in which she is doomed to die after the prince is married, they make their own deal with the Sea Witch: giving up their hair in exchange for an enchanted dagger that will free the Little Mermaid from the curse, if she kills the prince. | |
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Housepets!: In one strip, Bino sells all of his fur to buy an iPhone cover for Duchess. She responds with a $10 gift card and comments that the case doesn't even fit her phone. | |
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