I was thinking about this thread, FSG....
I was sitting in a meeting, and there was a woman there with long dark hair, kind of like Barb's...
Every minute or so she would reach up unconsciously and flick her hair back out of her face.
Then I thought (as you do) that she'd not be able to do that if someone had nailed her wrists to some timber....
Poor Barb suffered the consequences of that bit of daydreaming in
'A Bloody Job'
She brushed aside her raven hair
She then resumed just laying there;
I gaped at her, then heard her say
“Well come on, man! Don’t take all day!”
Then, later:
We raised her cross, and so it stood
Between her bleeding sisterhood
And, as I watched her suffer there
The wind disturbed her long black hair.
It blew across her hazel eyes
But it could not be brushed aside;
Now tortured, too, by her own hair,
She hung and cried in bleak despair.
So I would probably not shave a woman's head!