In the sixties we all had fringes that came down to our eyes and practically got tangled with our eye lashes. It was due to copying Cathy McGowan who was on the panel of a pop show (can't remember what it was called now) and was famous for saying, "Oil give it foive."
Our headmistress told us that having such long fringes would make our eye brows fall out and they would never grow again. She said, "You may think that when you are grown up you'll pluck your eyebrows anyway but it might not be the fashion by then." What she didn't realise was that we all plucked our eyebrows already and I remember thinking how much easier it would be if they fell out and I just had to paint thin ones in.
It didn't work. I still have bushy eyebrows. I just don't bother to pluck them now.