TY  - JOUR
T1  - SUnlight, bareheadedness and baldness
Y1  - 2010/11/17
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.1639
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2185
EP  - 2185
VL  - 304
IS  - 19
N2  - 
During the past few summers there has been a widespread and growing tendency among young people to discard head coverings of all kinds, and to go about under the open sun bareheaded. Indeed in college communities, the bare-head habit has not been limited to summer, and it has apparently been considered modish to go about hatless in weather which caused older and less faddish heads to seek the shelter of furs and ear muffs. This custom has received not a little encouragement from the wide-spread belief, which is probably well warranted, that baldness is commonly caused by the obstruction to the circulation of the scalp by the pressure of hat-bands; therefore to escape this unwholesome pressure and at the same time to secure the stimulating effects of sunlight seemed an ideal method for insuring a permanent and luxuriant head of hair.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1639
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1639
ER  -