Probably a funny question coming from me. I’m a black guy born in the mid-70s who essentially missed the afro fad. I don’t think I’ve ever had my hair more than two inches off my scalp. But perhaps that’s why you other people fascinate me so much. 
So, what’s the longest your hair’s been? My poll options are limited because my hair-length vocabulary is limited, but please feel free to be descriptive in your posts. Also, please include the era and/or age you were when it was at its longest.
Mine has been to the top of my bottom. I was so glad to get it cut!
Growing up I always wanted it to my mid back, but it never got much past my shoulders. These days I’m taking a cue from my mother’s side of the family and just shaving it all off.
I’ve been getting it cut pretty short, lately … every two or three months whether I need it or not. But through most of my life I wore my hair long. The longest I’ve had is probably a tie from when I was around 12 (1977) and it was just a mop past my shoulders (I have a picture of myself somewhere where I look like a 12 year old Peter Frampton) and just after I got married. I’d cut my hair for the wedding and vowed not to cut it again until the 1st year anniversary. I ended going about 18 months without a haircut and it was past my shoulders, but not to the middle of my back.
But it got to be where it drove me crazy so I lopped it all off and haven’t had it that long since. It’s just such a pain in the ass because, while I love to have my hair long, the getting there looks horrible. Medium length hair … just past short but not yet long … tends to make me look like Herb Tarlick.
When I was little, it was long enough for me to sit on. Then there was the razor-comb incident…
Well, anyway, it never got quite that long again. A few years ago it was down to my elbows, but I was annoyed at the feeling of my hair touching my lower arms. I always thought a bug was landing on me.
I think the perfect length is just an inch or so shorter than that, but whether I will actually allow it to get there again remains to be seen.
Funny, my nickname in high school was Frampton.
Now I look a little more like Corgan.
Sometimes I’ve grown it as long as I could, but that’s only down to mid-back. A couple of years ago I got it cut pretty short and liked it like that, but for the past year we’ve been broke so I haven’t paid for a haircut. Now I really need one, it’s getting longer than I want it to be now. It’s currently past my shoulders.
Back in '94 I had mine to my mid-back. Sadly, baldness precludes that now.
I once wore a pony tail down to mid-back.
It’s been almost down to my waist, but right now it’s about bra-strap length. I wanted to see if I could grow it long enough to sit on it, but my hairdresser and I both agree that when it gets waist length, it looks ratty, so I keep it its current length.
I’ve had hair to just about the bottom of my shoulder blades* for the last 11 or so years (since I was 21/22)…started growing it at 19, grew it as long as it’d go, and have kept it, since.
Same here. My hairline was receding so I shaved it off in early 95 and I’ve kept my head shaved since then, except for a few attempts at letting it grow for a month at a time.
Same here. And at that time my goatee was bellybutton length. ZZ Top jokes made me trim everything (along with upkeep being a pita).
Bunch of dirty hippies on this board. 
When I was around 18 I wore my hair to my shoulders, sometimes in a ponytail. Between that and the goatee, I kind of looked like Comic Book Guy, so I deep-sixed it after a short time.
Male here.
Growing up I had it a little past my shoulders. Cut it in 7th grade and have no intention of growing it back out. I keep my hair around 1 inch now.
I voted for entire back, but my hair is rather wavy and springs up a bit. At rest it appears to be a bit more than halfway down my back, but if I grab it and stretch it almost reaches the crack of my ass.
Guy here, BTW. I haven’t had a haircut in twenty years.
Hmm, I’m the first longer-than-back-length. For over a decade, my hair was 40-42" from root to tip. It was down to my hips. I wore it up in a bun all the time.
I think mine was longer when I was a little girl, but the longest I’ve worn it as an adult was mid-back.
I’d wear it longer now if my hair was thicker, but all I can get away with is shoulder-length.
What’s the longest I’ve ever worn my hair? My whole life!
But I’ve always cut it before it gets to my shoulders - usually long before that. I don’t like it over my ears.