The regs appear in AP1358 RAF Dress and Appearance, and not in King’s Regulations.
Here is a link to similar:
https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles...ies-for-women/
Interestingly, it seems to automatically refresh the Twitter link to Sir Rich rather than Wigston who made the policy switch. Not great really, because that now means that Sir Rich is linked to previous policy announcements on Twitter!
As for the pony tail - sometimes it looks smart when platted or cornrowed - but as a bog standard pony tail it often looks scruffy and sometimes with a beret more like a Davy Crockett hat!
Pride in appearance needs to meet some basic standard. I would suggest that the photo of this NCO, in an ill fitting shirt with a fat back hanging over the chair, with their unkept beard and scraggy plaits half way down their back, falls below that standard that AP1358 seeks to set:
This is the link to the beard policy - they don’t appear to meet that either.
https://www.raf.mod.uk/serving-famil...l-hair-policy/