According to Cosmopolitan, the shag haircut of the 1970s has become all the rage in 2026.

That makes me grumpy because I’m still upset about the David Cassidy shag haircut my sisters made me get in 1973, when I was 11.

Mimicking a Teen Idol

As I explain more fully in my book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” Cassidy, the heartthrob star of TV’s “The Partridge Family,” was a huge star in 1973.

Like millions of teenage girls, my sisters had a major crush on him.

They told me I’d be the first kid at St. Germaine Catholic School to part my hair down the middle and feather it over my ears. They told me I’d be popular with the girls.

So I did the unthinkable. I pedaled my Huffy Spyder bike three miles to the unisex hair salon behind Murphy Mart, the Walmart of that era.

I set my crumpled bills and coins on the counter.

“Make me look like David Cassidy,” I said to the bun-haired lady, a smoldering Marlboro cigarette dangling from her bright red lips.

She clipped and she cut. She applied........

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