[KS] pigtails

[David McCann]

An additional note on the subject of hair and politics?

  The phrase "Stuck a feather in his cap/ and called it macaroni" in the
song "Yankee Doodle" was a slighting, British reference to the hairstyles
of the American colonials.  A "macaroni" was a very fancy continental and
British "do."  By a nice performance reversal, that phrase, like the term
"Yankee," which also started out as a disparaging, British term, took on a
jaunty, defiant air in the song sung by the colonial troops.

David McCann