Since the days of Jane Fonda in Barbarella and Brigitte Bardot in, well, everything she did, long and wavy hair has been the go-to style for anyone seeking feminine sex appeal.

Long waves have been an institution and a must-have for anyone who wants to look womanly — especially in recent years, thanks in large part to a certain reality TV family, whose members have a lock on old-school, über-feminine glam.

But this year, a sea change occurred when star after star cropped her hair. Jennifer Lawrence, Shailene Woodley, Emma Stone and more went for daring, tough and sexy short haircuts. Suddenly, long waves seem like a relic from the mid-2000s when Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan first made them compulsory.