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Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Tanakh's injunction against shaving the "sides" of one's head. Literally, pe'a means "corner, side, edge". There are different styles of payot among Haredi or Hasidic, Yemenite, and Chardal Jews.
The forbidding of shaving the corners of the head was interpreted by the Mishnah as prohibiting the hair at the temples being cut so that the hairline was a straight line from behind the ears to the forehead; [21] thus it was deemed necessary to retain sidelocks, leading to the development of a distinctly Jewish form of sidelock, known as payot.
It is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron The curls can also be achieved by hair rollers. [1] Loose ringlets can be created just by twisting wet hair as well. Many Haredi and Hasidic Jewish men wear payot, which may be curled as ringlets.
Payot: Sidelocks or earlocks, worn by some males in the Orthodox Jewish community. Perm: Hair that is chemically treated to retain curl (curly perm) or lie straight (straight perm). New hair is not affected by the chemical treatment and will grow out naturally. Pigtails
Self-image may be directed toward conforming to mainstream values (military-style crew cuts or current "fad" hairstyles such as the Dido flip), identifying with distinctively groomed subgroups (e.g., punk hair), or obeying religious dictates (e.g., Orthodox Jewish have payot, Rastafari have Dreadlocks, North India jatas, or the Sikh practice of ...
Besides, in the Jewish community Simmonim/Payot are not called "sidelocks", I have only heard non-Jews call them that, and I haven't even heard that many non-Jews say that since Peyot aren't locks. They are either free flowing, curled, or braided. If there is a non-Jewish custom of wearing something called "sidelocks" that is a different article.
In the case of the Jewish junior from Brooklyn, though, the bushy dark hair that is piled high on his head has been called an "Isro"." [ 19 ] Novelist Judith Rossner was described in a Chicago Tribune profile as the "grown-up Wunderkind with an open, oval face framed by a Jewish Afro."
A Jewish woman wearing a sheitel with a shpitzel or snood on top of it A shpitzel ( Yiddish : שפּיצל ) is a head covering worn by some married Hasidic women. It is a partial wig that only has hair in the front, the rest typically covered by a small pillbox hat or a headscarf . [ 37 ]