# When Were Headbands Last In Style?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 12, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492 "2015-10-12T23:41:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/1 "2015-10-12T23:41:53Z")
Jor-El (Krypton) wore them… so did Wonder Woman. Has any fashion designer ever used them? Aside from some Southwestern USA Indian tribes, i haven’t seen them on anyone.
A cool look that deserves to come back
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/2 "2015-10-12T23:43:47Z")
You should be that first brave person who brings them back.
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### Author:  [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/3 "2015-10-13T00:19:55Z")
I still see them around, especially on women, but they tend to be a lot wider now than they were in the '80s. There’s a modern men’s version that kinda blurs the line between a headband and a do-rag.
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/4 "2015-10-13T03:15:00Z")
Do you mean a headband like the ones to keep hair back, or the kind that go around the forehead, like a headache band from the 1920s?
If it’s the former, I see them all the time. My junior high girls all wore thin elastic ones, and the actress playing Peter Florrick’s mother seems to wear one quite often.
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### Author:  [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/5 "2015-10-13T03:27:45Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smyJrUjlUds)
You got a treat here. Don’t thank me just pass it forward.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/6 "2015-10-13T03:43:34Z")
They are currently acceptable for business wear. Go ahead and wear yours to work.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/7 "2015-10-13T06:55:59Z")
In the 60s and 70s head bands were part of the hippie uniform. Everyone had to wear head bands to demonstrate non-conformity.
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/8 "2015-10-13T08:14:15Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> In the 60s and 70s head bands were part of the hippie uniform. Everyone had to wear head bands to demonstrate non-conformity.
Also, you have to wear a headband with a fringed vest.
Which may be why they won’t come back into style for another generation or so…
Before something can be cool again, people need time to forget how ridiculous it is. 🙂
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/9 "2015-10-13T11:53:22Z")
[This fashion icon wears them.](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/files/files/images/2014/9/09/140909_2811047_Chuck_Berry_Punched_Keith_Richards_in_the_Fa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/guest/keith-richards/11016&h=1080&w=1920&tbnid=STy0Ntarn3O10M:&docid=dzITRuP0vOM6YM&ei=cvAcVqH0CoXb-QGe56DAAw&tbm=isch&ved=0CHEQMyhKMEpqFQoTCKH1qJ-xv8gCFYVtPgodnjMIOA)
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### Author:  [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/10 "2015-10-13T13:07:57Z")
Currently in style: bohemian headbands, sporty headbands, slouchy headbands…the list goes on.
[Bohemian](https://img0.etsystatic.com/051/1/6593411/il_fullxfull.730621164_9lk5.jpg)
[Sporty](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PmAfL94VL.jpg)
[Slouchy](https://img0.etsystatic.com/052/1/5705968/il_570xN.667039198_merr.jpg)
[And men wear them too…](https://cdn-img-2.wanelo.com/p/67a/70a/488/958492a1dc2644ada092316/x354-q80.jpg)
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/11 "2015-10-13T16:12:58Z")
I was going to say when [Mike Reno](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b2/5b/18/b25b189d7e43f60ddba3610c22b51b46.jpg) was working for the weekend but apparently they’ve made somewhat of a comeback. Very hard look to pull of, IMO.
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/12 "2015-10-13T16:46:21Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> In the 60s and 70s head bands were part of the hippie uniform. Everyone had to wear head bands to demonstrate non-conformity.
The uniform was long hair. The headband was to keep it out of your eyes.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/13 "2015-10-13T19:58:40Z")
My favorites:
[http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/27/2769/3QJTD00Z/posters/jay-silverheels.jpg](http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/27/2769/3QJTD00Z/posters/jay-silverheels.jpg)
[ ](http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/killzone/images/6/61/Kamikaze.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140411233806)
[http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c\_fill,h\_360,w\_480/t\_mp\_quality/woonizwklsahz6hxbghp/bad-ninja-headbands-spliced-80-s-movies-of-joseph-lai-godfrey-ho-wear-white-and-ninja-455186.jpg](http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_fill,h_360,w_480/t_mp_quality/woonizwklsahz6hxbghp/bad-ninja-headbands-spliced-80-s-movies-of-joseph-lai-godfrey-ho-wear-white-and-ninja-455186.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/14 "2015-10-13T20:57:26Z")
Last time I remember them being in style was when Jim McMahon was QB for the Chicago Bears Superbowl team.
[ ](http://tireball.com/nfl/files/2014/06/jimmcmahon.jpg)
I’m sure I missed a lot post-1999…so
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/15 "2015-10-13T21:06:00Z")
Whoops! Forgot\*\* this guy:\*\*
[ ](https://rerunningfromreality.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/iamkirok.jpg)
D’oh! :smack:
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### Author:  [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/16 "2015-10-14T13:21:46Z")
Canadian band Loverboy knew how to rock a headband, and so can you - [Turn me loose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s).
Compare them to their fellow Canadian Neil Young. His scruffy, untethered hair did absolutely nothing for him, while my younger sister was quite taken with Loverboy’s lead singer.
Today’s learning: Head band = chick magnet
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### Author:  [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/17 "2015-10-14T13:34:55Z")
I think the rule is: if you can get away with leather pants, you can get away with a head band.
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### Author:  [@northporlarbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/northporlarbear)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/18 "2015-10-14T14:15:44Z")
Not that uncommon while working out. That sweat head band thingy. But I haven’t seen it on streets.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/19 "2015-10-14T14:53:06Z")
All I can picture is Cher, in the 60’s, in a fringed vest with an Indian headband. Maybe with some feathers in it.
I have some wire and glass bead headbands made for keeping my growing out bangs out of my eyes, the half-circle kind. They can give me a headache if I wear them too long, though.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/20 "2015-10-14T16:55:41Z")
> [@northporlarbear](#):
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> Not that uncommon while working out. That sweat head band thingy.
I always thought it was clever to label them “HEAD.” 🆒
I kept waiting for them to come out with ones that said “WRIST.” 😃
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