Dating yourself? What are you, 250 years old? I SAID, WHAT ARE YOU, 250 YEARS OLD?
But yeah – the powdered wig has to be one of the worst coiffing decisions of all of human history. If we’re going back that far in history, might as well go all the way. The page boy and the Roman senator cuts were never a good choice.
Eh? You’ll have to speak up, you sprightly young thing.
I was trying to find a picture of the woman who had a complete model of a sailing ship in her hair, but failed. Though that might fall into the “so bad it’s good” category.
I never understood the puffy bangs phenomenon. The girl in the picture has a mild version of what was all the rage around here for an endless period of time. (And you still see women wearing their hair like this.)
The most popular version in this area was about six inches long and covered the entire forehead, much like a giant cottonball. Behind the puff, the hair was severely flat, generally parted in the middle. (Often, the rest of it was ornamented by a bad perm or crispy-fried dye job.)
It was probably meant to!
I think it’s a kid going to his coming of age celebration. In Japan all the kids who turn 20 that year are invited to their local city hall for a formal coming of age ceremony. Most of the girls wear kimono and the boys tend to dress up in a variety of ways, but recently there’s a large element of, how do I say it, “Goth” traditional Japanese wear. That is, they wear all the proper kimono and hakama etc but then they hike the kimono up short, wear dramatic make up and have bees-nest hairstyles, the boys will yank open their kimono to bare their chests or have them off one shoulder… I heard this year that some of the kids heckled the speakers which was really not on and it ruined those ceremonies.
I think the kid in this picture is one of the whacky participants but at least he has all his clothes on!
And the erect penis tassel is because it’s an auspicious occasion, so all kimono knots are tied so the ends go up. For funerals etc the knots would all be tied so the ends fall down.
I bring you Prince Valiant and his less well known brother, Chuck
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The worse hairstyle of all time…
meet the jheri curl.
Despite being horrible, the hairstyle has spawned two great movie songs: “When You Got that Glow” and “Soul Glo”.
OMG, you so win with this.
Class of 1986 here. The only thing worse than the jheri curl was sitting on the vinyl bus seats after an over enthusiastic jheri curl user had been there on a hot, sultry, Southern day.
You know, that stuff will so NOT come off your clothes!
And the memorable experiment of a really close African-American female friend of mine seeing what a white girl would look like in jheri curl juice. That didn’t go well, either. 
(I already had a perm, see, a spiral perm*, and she thought, well, what would that look like, and there were only ten white kids in my high school anyway, and you know…er…well…and there was Mad Dog 20/20 involved, and we…er…nevermind, it was just a bad, bad, bad idea.)
Cheers.
G
*Which, come to think of it, is not a good look, either. hair-styles.net
I did, see post #12!
Cheers,
Gleena
