# Id this recent men's hairstyle? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 17, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570 "2010-08-17T20:42:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/21 "2010-08-19T12:28:32Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > [Is it a [bowl](http://wonderfulworldofhair.tripod.com/bowlcut/bowl0.jpg) [cut](http://reocities.com/RodeoDrive/3696/bo06.jpg)? A modified one perhaps. It is a bowl in that it comes partially down and then terminates in a hanging ledge, but then it’s closely cropped from the ledge down to where the hairline ends. I looked through a number of the classifications in **Bridget’s** link but didn’t see it. Strange because it was everywhere in the 80s and 90s. ETA: That’s much closer, **Colophon**. Thanks, I was typing this while you posted. I’ll look under that. No biggie, it just never was for me so I was curious as to why it was for a time so prevalent. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/22 "2010-08-19T17:36:17Z")
I think Earl means kind of like this: [David Boreanez](http://fxpaper.fatalsystem.com/images/wallpapers/celebsm/david-boreanaz/david_boreanaz_5.jpg) from the TV show **Bones**. I’ve seen him on the show wearing his hair in the front coming to a kind of point and I don’t like it, I think it looks dorky. He looked better a couple seasons ago. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/23 "2010-08-19T17:40:08Z")
I call it the [meringue](http://kelseyhinton.com/?p=145). ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/24 "2010-08-19T17:53:41Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > I think Earl means kind of like this: [David Boreanez](http://fxpaper.fatalsystem.com/images/wallpapers/celebsm/david-boreanaz/david_boreanaz_5.jpg) from the TV show **Bones**. That’s pretty much it. Ed Grimley was an extreme case. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/25 "2010-08-19T18:19:53Z")
Wait, so you guys are saying that I _shouldn’t_ get my hair cut like that? Cuz I’m going for a cut in about an hour… ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/26 "2010-08-19T19:08:47Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Wait, so you guys are saying that I _shouldn’t_ get my hair cut like that? Cuz I’m going for a cut in about an hour… See post #14 ---
**Author:** ![dmatsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dmatsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dmatsch)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/27 "2010-08-19T20:39:00Z")
removed. wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![BG43214\_YAHOO.COM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@BG43214\_YAHOO.COM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BG43214_YAHOO.COM)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/28 "2010-08-20T15:01:26Z")
If I’m not mistaken, the 2nd photo is a style that’s been around for a while…personally I think it’s very nice…if I had that much hair at my age, I’d wear it that way, too!! It’s a casual, breezy style, and someone somewhere once said that it looks as if you are in motion when you are standing still!! 🆒 I hope it stays around for a long, long time!!! And it looks great on blonde hair!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/29 "2010-09-02T09:39:29Z")
**lieu** , do you mean a [mushroom cut](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://talk.hairboutique.com/uploads/20080719_140142_bc1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://talk.hairboutique.com/printer_friendly_posts.asp%3FTID%3D61783&usg=__WyJDBMV6rB3uE9eHZ8rsfZNFuIg=&h=384&w=376&sz=25&hl=en&start=45&zoom=1&tbnid=CdSFOkRnuExxxM:&tbnh=154&tbnw=161&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmushroom%2Bcut%2Bhairstyle%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D867%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C560&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=136&vpy=477&dur=844&hovh=227&hovw=222&tx=114&ty=136&ei=g3B_TP6gD4WasAOb0uW1Cw&oei=fXB_TNnQB4v2swOLz8T1Cg&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=35&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:45&biw=1680&bih=867)? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/30 "2010-09-02T13:06:07Z")
**Rilchiam** , it’s surprising to think back about now but I honestly don’t recall anyone ever saying the name of the cut, it was just hip and a whole lot of young guys wore it that way, again around the early 80s. The “mushroom” you link to is close but I don’t remember the crop being so 2 dimensionally flat. I guess the “curtains” probably comes closest to what I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/31 "2010-09-02T17:10:26Z")
Actually, I couldn’t find a link to what I was really thinking of, which is what you said: not so two-dimensionally flat. The hair was much fuller, giving a mushroom-cap effect. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570/32 "2010-09-02T17:47:59Z")
A [Dorothy Hamill](http://0.tqn.com/d/figureskating/1/0/o/W/-/-/wedge9.jpg) wedge haircut? heh heh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-recent-mens-hairstyle/550570.md?page=1)