My hair is driving me CRAZY! Family on my mother’s side of the family are mostly Finnish, fair-haired dour, depressed looking, close mouthed, close knit, clannish, European peasant stock, whose aged men and women must by custom and necessity, dress very differently from each other, in order that a gender can easily be assigned to them by appearance alone. Upon meeting my maternal great-great-grandmother for the very first time, she wearing her hair tied into a tight white bun, and wearing her... Sign in to see full entry.