from the Guardian:
"Hundreds of women and children have been removed by the authorities from a Texan cult accused of forcing underage girls into marriage and subjecting them to physical abuse. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has 10,000 followers, a $3m ranch called Yearn for Zion and a leader, Warren Jeffs, who is in jail.
What is not explained in any of the news reports so far is what membership of a polygamous cult could possibly offer its female members. Yet pictures showing the women and girls being bussed from the sect's headquarters have shed light on at least one unlikely advantage - great hair. As the women were taken into custody and investigators started searching their home, they each sported elegant quiffs, complicated plaits or multiple buns; hair so intricately woven that one hairdresser has called it "classic couture".
