Braids are becoming chic?

I was reading a piece on jezebel about how braids are getting popular(http://jezebel.com/whoa-have-you-guys-heard-about-this-cool-new-hairstyle-1443525210).  I had all my hair braided all summer and it was glorious.  Glorious!!  Freedom!!  Here's a story by author Anne Lamott about her dreadlocks, same sentiment (you have to scroll down a bit, that's not AL in the pic): http://bedust.wordpress.com/tag/anne-lamott/.  Anyway, I very much enjoyed having braids all summer, going swimming whenever I wanted, getting ready to go out in 20 minutes max.  But alas, the roots grow out and you have to remove them eventually.  The process of getting them was long, painful, expensive.  So I didn't have them re-done.  I miss them!  But I took some screengrabs from Requiem for a Dream of Jennifer Connelly.  I will print them and take them to my stylist to see if he can do me like this for an event, albeit temporary.  Meaning just for that night.  sigh