Inspired by the pacifiers thread, I have to ask what is up with the current trend among male teens for unkempt '70s style hair? Damn it, this the the twenty-first century! They should choose something quasi-futuristic! Seriously, where did this trend come from? Is it meant or originally intended to be ironic?
Thanks,
Rob
Don’t worry the disco styles are next. It won’t be long.
But it will be long. And feathered.
And why is Pete Wentz trying to look like Adam Sandler’s Little Nicky?
Well, Pete Wentz is Emo as is that Hairstyle.
As for the 70’s hair… I’m guilty of that. I have a T-shirt of the Beatles from the White Album era, and man… those guys look badass. I like them. That’s pretty much been the basis of my 70’s shaggy hair cuts. Blame the Psychedelic Beatles for me.
What is 70s hair? Is it just unkempt hair you never bother to cut (or wash)? Because that’s really not that hard to explain…
It looks naturally beautiful 
Hair gets longer during tough economic times? 70’s style hair, at least from what I’ve seen in old catalogs, etc., actually seems more “kempt” to me. I doubt that the 00’s male teen uses a blow dryer.
For the last couple of years, shaved heads have been fashionable, and the trend spread to much of the adult population. So, whatever the grownups are doing, the teens want to do the opposite.
Oh, but they do. They shampoo and condition and use anti-frizz stuff and blow dry and straighten and then pomade/gel/hairspray their hair to get it to look just the precise level of greasy and unkempt that they’re going for. Takes the boys I know longer than the girls to get ready these days.
Why? 'Cause Dad and Uncle Mike and their gym teachers have shaved heads and goatees. And 'cause the people putting together Cosmo and GQ and managing young singers and actors right now came of age in the late 70’s / early 80’s, and that’s the look they’re promoting as hot and sexy.
I’ve seen a lot of '70sish pineapple heads around these parts of late.
Is it a fad? I feel like many American high school kids gravitate towards the 1960s/1970s counterculture pretty easily. Pot, long hair, Doors, Beatles, Hendrix, Joplin, etc. Someone in your peer group is always learning guitar and playing covers on an acoustic.
A hedonistic, free philosophy is pretty appealing when youre 16. Kids were like this when I was in high school in the early 90s. Perhaps the fashion magazines are reflective of what goes on naturally.
There are a number of ways to style hair, but I mean really, there aren’t that many. If we were forced to choose new hairstyles every decade for all of human history, we’d have run out around the time of the pharaohs. Come to think of it, I wonder what the fad was in ancient Egypt…
Shaved heads and wigs.
If we are going to have 70s hair, why can’t it be the hair of, I don’t know, Johnny Rotten? I guess the execs at Disney wouldn’t regard that as nice and safe.
