Game of Thrones season 7: Cersei fan theory questions why her hair has been kept short
Character's style has changed drastically since season 1
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Your support makes all the difference.We've seen a lot of style updates in the past few series of Game of Thrones. Many of the characters in season 7 would have looked at home on the runway at Paris Fashion Week.
But it's one particular style choice from Cersei that has Game of Thrones fans talking.
In earlier seasons, her appearance was defined by her long, golden Lannister hair.
However it was shorn off before she was forced to walk naked through the street's of King's Landing by the High Septon.
This was a particularly powerful scene due to how women's hair has long been associated with sinfulness and temptation, traits that Cersei has always seemed to enjoy.
After she took back power, fans may have expected that she would have grown her hair to how it used to be - something which would also keep up with how much time has passed in Westeros.
Yet it has remained the same length.
Joanna Robinson points out in Vanity Fair that everything about Cersei's appearance is deliberate. As she was "reborn" after the deaths of her children, she has kept her hair short and worn darker, more warrior-like clothes.
Some fans are pointing out how Cersei could be copying her late father Tywin's way of dressing, trying to invoke his masculine strength.
If you've followed the series from the beginning, you should remember her cutting remark to King Robert: "I should wear the armour and you the gown."
Now she is seen wearing chainmail style adornments on her clothes, choosing dark grey and black as her preferred colours.
This harsher look could be a way to distance herself from being a "great beauty", as she was known in the past.
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Now she wants to receive the respect she has seen given to the powerful men in her life, and so is using her hair and clothes to outwardly reflect her own power and strength.
Meanwhile three other huge fan theories have been put forward for the final episode of season seven [spoilers].
You can read our review of the early-broadcast episode 6 here [more spoilers].
Game of Thrones airs in the US on HBO every Sunday where it is simulcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic at 2am. It is repeated that same evening on both Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.
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