Tightly Tied   

Hair! I almost laughed out loud.

You know how you sometimes say a word too many times, and suddenly it sounds strange? Well, that’s kind of like what happened to me. I grew up frum, and sheitels were just sheitels —something married women wear. And then suddenly, in one moment, the whole idea became so strange to me. And I couldn’t go back to the way I used to think.

Once, a few years before, I’d walked under a tree that had low-hanging branches. I came out the other side; my sheitel didn’t. Whoa! Embarrassing!

So why, I wondered, are we all trying to copy that look?

If it hadn’t been Elul, I probably would have brushed the whole issue under my sheitel. But the more I thought about it, and the more I read up on the topic, the more my husband and I agreed that maybe it was time for me to move to tichels.