Grey hair – shades of opinion

Silver threads

Letters to the Editor. Illustration: Paul Scott
The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.

Sir, – Further to your recent feature “Rise of the ‘silver sisters’” (Magazine, June 1st), a grey-haired man is “distinguished” apparently and rarely feels the need to dye to conform to fashion or the notions of youth as applied to women. The difficulty that grey has to wrestle with is that it’s neither black nor white but is, strictly speaking, not a colour but a shade. A grey area in life and fashion. – Yours, etc,

TOMÁS FINN,

Cappataggle,

Balllinasloe,

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Co Galway.

Sir, – I seem to remember it was John B Keane who said that his grey hairs were like a sergeant’s stripes, every one of them earned. – Yours, etc,

TONY WOOL,

Ballincollig,

Cork.