And she was convinced that nobody would style her hair better than she could after an unsuccessful trip to a professional hairstylist whom she had asked to give her braids like those of the character Thelma Ann Evans on the 1970s CBS television sitcom Good Times. She remembered growing up coveting the database’s record for longest hair because some cultures have historically associated straight hair with beauty.īut by the time Dugas was in her 20s, she had come to admire the natural hairstyles that many Black women wore as an expression of identity and pride. Guinness, known for its database of more than 40,000 world record-holders, describes the 47-year-old Dugas as a resident of the community of Reserve, which is about 35 miles west of New Orleans.
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