Young Blonde Girl With Cornrows Hairstyle And Green Stockings On The Wooden Swing On Ropes

In 2011, the High Court of the United Kingdom, in a decision reported as a test case, ruled against a school’s decision to refuse entry to a student with cornrows; the school claimed this was part of its policy mandating ‘short back and sides’ haircuts and disallowing styles that might be worn as indicators of gang membership, but the court ruled that the student was expressing a family tradition and that such policies, while possibly justifiable in certain cases (e.g. skinhead gangs), had to accommodate reasonable ethnic and cultural practises.
Braids pulled too tight or worn for considerable lengths of time can cause a type of hair loss known as traction alopecia.