I will go back to lurking in just a moment but I couldn't resist commenting.

I come from a family of conservative mennonites.  Some of my female relatives have never cut their hair.  In the mennonite tradition, a womans hair is her pride and glory.  To cut it is shameful and/or prideful.  Thair hair reaches the floor (though you wouldn't see this as they keep it up in a bun on their head).  I have one relative who got in trouble with her church because she cut her hair to her ankles because she was tired of tripping on it at night.  Talk about long hair becoming cumbersome!