I grew up wearing those ‘cute’ crewcuts with the front sticking straight up. (Often helped with ButchWax - a thick, reddish, sweet smelling wax one combed through the front hair to make it stick up.)
Then came the side part with hair slicked down by valvoline, or some other oily substance that make it dark, shiny and smell sweet. (Barber shops had shelves full of colorful, pleasant smelling hair oils that scented up the place and were fun to look at for a kid.)
The Ducktail, ‘hood’ look was in – along with packs of smokes in the far too tight jeans and biker boots. Then came the Elvis look. (Hairspray was for ‘chicks’, man.) Adults wore combovers with about 6 yards of closely trimmed hair around their ears so they looked funny. Ears stuck out and all their hair was packed close to the top of their heads. (The ‘Farmer’ look.)
Then came the ‘British Invasion,’ the Beatles with their semi-Moe-of-the-3-stooges hair cuts. Long hair was in. Little kids started getting that all-too-cute long sugar bowl haircut (still seen on 8 is enough reruns and many kid shows of today). Crew cuts were for football players.
The hippies created even longer hair, valvoline was out and either spray or no spray was in. (So was dirt. Guy hippies seemed to prefer long, lank greasy hair on their heads.)
Then came the Disco cut – longish, styled and tasteful, if not a bit flamboyant. That was followed by the Punk - odd, spiky, asymmetrical and often wildly colored. On the heels of that came the ‘whatever?’ where kids wore sugar bowl haircuts – thick on the top with a close shave all around their heads, ending above their ears, or half their head shaved and one half not. (That accompanied the rag bag ghetto hand-me-down-too-large-cloths look.)
O.K. I think I get it all. (Chicks, by the way, through it all, managed always to look cool. Perhaps there is something to the rumor that they’re more mature than men.)
Now, explain to me the current hairstyle of shaving your friggin’ head butt bald and being proud about it! We have two types, stubble or no stubble. Blacks prefer no stubble and Whites prefer stubble.
What maroons! What wackos! Not even flat tops but bald! Come on, ladies, certainly you don’t find this sexy? (No doubt, if you chicks started ridiculing the baldies, they’d stop.) The term for this is ‘gang or gangsta bald.’
Great. I’m overjoyed that our youth prefer to copy murderous thugs, random killers, rapists and abusers.
At least the Surfers still wear long hair, even if they are a little nuts from too much sun and sea.
I dislike the bald look. Do you?