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OK, I started tying my hair back about two weeks ago... the first week I was at home the whole time, but this week I was in classes.
It's been incredibly hard to not play with my hair during class. I mean, my laptop's power cord is busted, so I can't take it into class with me. If I've got a boring lecturer, I have to distract myself somehow, or else I go crazy. Maybe it's just because it's new, but my pony tail keeps presenting itself as my best option. But I have no idea what I look like when I'm playing with my hair in class... I mean, I don't much care if I look like a girl: all my classmates have seen me in a skirt before. I just don't wanna look stupid.
Any advice?
Also also: a coupla times I've forgotten that my hair is tied up and gone to sleep with it that way... is this a problem? Does it do bad stuff to my hair?
I too play with my hair during class. I just cant help it. As for sleeping with your hair pulled back, I sometimes tie it in a low loose tail before i go to bed. Some people also tie their hair into a bun before bed, something i havent tried yet. As long as you dont pull it back too tight or high i dont see a problem.
peace
thanks, I'll try some of those :)
Congratulations! I feel that pretty much the same way. Don't worry, I sleep with tied hair as well, because otherwise it would tickle me on face. Also it may prevent tangling noticeably. I'd just put the rubber band it a bit down and more leisure, because it's diffcult to sleep on a bundle of hair.
Well, playing with hair...sometimes I can't hold myself as well, but classmates seems to not react anyhow. After I got through the most of the "awkward stage" and a lot of persecution by "fashion police" members, they obviously stopped to care about. Though, I don't play with my hair too much, I am one of successful psi-sphere ability-owners, so mostly I play with invisible (touchable only) energy constructs, which is less noticeable for others.
But I have to say, letting my hair free is something that makes my classmates laugh a lot, so be careful with that ;)
Yeah, unless I get tired and my ears start over-heating, I like my hair down, too... but I like to experiment, and I've decided this whole semester I'm gonna keep my hair tied back as much as possible and play around... maybe in a few months I can get the Willie Nelson twin-braid look. As of now, I'm having problems making *one* braid.
hi there,and welcome to the board :))
I don't think that playing with your hair makes you look like a girl,though I'd have to admit..it might affect your studies (especially if you are doing it in class,lol).I'd probably do the same thing if it weren't for the fact that I have to take a lot of notes (math classes are note-taking demandng,ya know?).
...play with my hair in public...especially in front of the guys.
It's up to you, of course, but some people find it annoying.
Anyway, over time you will get used to your hair and then you
may not be so tempted to play with it in public.
That's the thing about long hair: it's with you 24/7/365
Are you a member of the brotherhood of the kilt, too? I love going kilted, and it looks great on a longhair! I wear mine to work (I drive a bus in Tucson) on Halloween with a highland shirt, and my hair in a half-tail. It looked great, if I do say so myself! ;)
I can't stop running my fingers through my hair either. I love the way it feels when I look left and right for traffic. When it's in a half or full tail, it feels even better. The look of long hair is a big reason for growing it, but for me, the feel is more important. Short hair doesn't move, it feels dead. Long hair flows, sways, and swings, feeling full of life! Mine is going a little gray, but still full. My brother's is receding and he combs it over (back to front!). I count my blessings every time I wash it.
Why do I grow my hair long? Because I can! :)
Hey Lon - I've always wanted to do the kilt thing. I'm Welsh and in recent years been more interested in my ancestry. Would love to get to the British Isles someday. And, as I've said before here, I'm also interested in the Polynesian culture. I have several Hawaiian CD's where the men wear the tradition sarongs and tribal skirts. On a whim I did a search and found that sarongs and pareo pareo's are readily available and still worn regularly by men in many countries. So, I ordered a couple. Should be great for beach wear after surfing or lounging but don't know if I'd wear one in "public." I came across quite a few links for kilts too. Maybe I'll look into that as well. Can you tell me more about the brotherhood? (Robert the) Bruce'ster
P.S. I agree with you that the feel of long hair is even better than how it looks, and it looks great too.
There's nothing like being in a kilt in public! The ladies love it! (Be ready for an impropmtu kilt check!)
http://www.kiltsrock.com/
Then there's "the question". "What's worn under the kilt?"
- Nothing is worn, it's all in perfect working order!
- Socks and shoes!
- Mother always said a real lady wouldn't ask, and she was right, God bless her!
- (when a guy asks, 'What's under there?') Same as you, only bigger.
Long hair and a kilt, the true definition of freedom!
I love sarongs as well; in fact, I have five, including a kikoy/kikoi (a West African version of the sarong made out of cotton called kikoy), a pareo, and a kanga (another West African type of sarong). I also have a kimono, and I'm getting a kilt and a dishdash. Ebay rocks for good prices, as kilts can go for hundreds of dollars. Sarongs, conversely, can go from five to forty bucks, and they're one of the lovliest garments I know of. Curiousdesigns.com has some of the most beautiful sarongs I've seen, and the first time I wore one in front a woman, she was in love with it.
The traditional warrior image, or just the traditional male image, is a far outcry from most of today's western males - the traditional male was often a skirted, muscular being with hair to his shoulders or longer. I find it absurd how readily the masses will accept this image, but if we try to apply it to modern times, it's met with enormous derision, as if it's some piece of heresy. It's hypocrisy to the max. A lot of the run-of-the-mill guys today seem to be harboring vast insecurity complexes inside them, which is why they feel too afraid to wear the clothes they might really want to or to grow their hair as long as they really want. Not everyone wants to have long hair or traditional garments, but a surprisingly large (and growing) number of people DO. Besides, when you think about it, pants, at least the high-crotched varieties, don't fit the male anatomy at all. It seems like total opposition to what we in the West have been taught, but, in terms of functionality, women should wear the pants and men the skirts. Pants are great and even necessary for some activities, but to say that they're the only thing men can wear is absolutely ridiculous. And a lot of women agree with me on this, so don't be afraid to do what feels right.
It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think everyone should try out a skirt of some sort at least once (and without underwear. That defeats the purpose). A lot of girls will dig it, and anyone that gives you negative comments like "you're gay" is the kind of person you shouldn't be worrying about, anyway. So, yeah Bruce, give it a try. I honestly haven't worn these garments in public yet besides going down the college hallway and at home, but I sure plan to. Long hair plus men's unbifurcated garment = awesomeness. Rock on.
Peace
Wonderful post, Fallen_angels! Leave it to a longhair to know that limiting the clothing choices of men is just as outdated as limiting their hairstyles.
Elizabeth
It's my understanding that the reason pants came into the picture was because of travel. Men were usually the warriors in ancient Scotland(maybe the whole of Europe). Anyway, as they began having to travel longer distances, they began using horses instead of walking. The pants were a mere protection for the legs when riding a horse.
I heard this through the grapevine but it makes sense to me. Mike
I also heard that it was that pants were the symbol of the working class at the beginning of the industrial revolution, at a time when the rich men or nobles at the time were dressing in High Heels and skirts, yes at one time men dressed in hose, skirts, dresses,and all kinds of other clothes that men and women today take for granted that they are only for girls. Look at a uncensored portrait of Chistopher Columbus, the man that founded the North American continent. Not a picture of a traditional male today.
Alexander the great conquered the whole world in a skirt. Feirce Roman warriors though had short hair, but also were battle skirts.
Yeah, that's what I heard as well. A good example of this is a Japanese garment called the hakama - it comes in, I think, 4 or 5 different versions, but essentially in pants types and skirt types (they're those pleated skirts/skirt-like pants samurais wear). The pants version is called umanori hakama - horse-riding hakama.
The upper-class started riding horses and wearing pants while doing it, so since the lower-class wanted to mimic them, they adopted pants as well. Since the men rode the horses, pants became an emblem of masculinity.
That's not how pants started, though - I think the word "trousers" comes from Persia. They had pants long before the horse-riding days, although maybe they rode animals too.
Peace
Hey Fallen Angels,
I definitely agree with your thoughts on this. If women can wear whatever they like and call it Fashion, what's wrong with guys doing the same? I've got 2 Utilikilts that I wear in public quite a bit and a few skirts I wear mostly around the house and occasionally in public. Quite often when I'm playing in bands in the local area, I'll wear the kilts. I've never received any negative comments at all. Just about all of my friends know I like to push the 'envelope' a bit when it comes to clothes! :)
--Rick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Skirts
I was quite ignorant on this topic until the posts here and reading the above article.
"We're men, men in tights, tights, tights!" i.e. from a good movie!
Also I have no desire to wear skirts of any kind personally (although I support this movement after reading about it), but perhaps that is because society has conditioned me so well in this regard? (probably)
Hey Brah - I went to bed last night and hadn't realized there was a lot of further discussion about this topic. It seems a lot of us have and do wear a variety of skirts. Funny, I've just naturally been gravitating that way and, wah-lah, here it is! I really related to that warrior image you painted. In fact, it's when I've been working out with weights that I've felt most connected to it. Several of my polynesian CD's have native drumming and I often dance and/or lift to the rhythms. It gets me really energized and motivated. I think wearing a sarong, or skirt of some sort would feel comfortable and loose and enhance the "flow" of the movements; similar to the feeling of long hair when I run, do Yoga, dance, etc. I'm looking foward to giving it a try and think this may be the start of something new and BOLD. Thanks for the response. Bruce'ster
with the talk of defernt typs of skirt like
mens cloths just thought I would say I agree a c
man should be able to wear what he wants.
It happens that I like Thobes,the kind that
an arab would wear.
Very nice Ron - Reminds me of a full length Mexican garment I have. It's similar to a serape, buttons down the front and goes to below the knee. Love the way it feels. Yours looks great on you. Bruce'ster
My ansetery is direct scottish on my dad's side of the family
Check out this site! Get your free bumper sticker!
http://www.kiltsrock.com/
I have been known to rear a kilt.I have 4 Utilikilts.I wore kilts when I drove a truck.Only once or twice did anyone say anything about it and they were curious.
Arrick
Hi Lon,
Funny you should bring up kilts. I've got 2 Utilikilts and just recently took these pics. Kilts and long hair just go together nice! [hope the pics show up ok...]
--Rick
Hi there Rick,
You have a GREAT look going there! Kilts and long hair DO go together VERY well. Kilts are a VERY big thing in my home province of Nova Scotia, after all, Nova Scotia is latin for New Scotland and I believe Scotland is the original home of kilts. (AND, I would say belt length hair is less than a year away for you from looking at the back picture, that must be a record around the MLHH!)
David
Thanks for the comments, David. And also... thanks for the history lesson! I never knew that Nova Scotia is latin for New Scotland!
--Rick
Ha, awesome, dude. The black kilt looks great with the long hair. Winning combo, for sure.
Peace, man.
Thanks, FA! One thing about wearing black... it goes great with just about anything... including long hair!
--Rick
Naw, no kilt... I'm just a firm believer in wearing a costume at every possible opportunity. Last year for Purim (rough Israeli equivalent of Halloween that takes palce... actually, this weekend), I dressed up as "Melissa." Who's Melissa? I don't know, but she wore a shiny red skirt and a belly-exposing blue blazer to school that day. Her hair wasn't as long as mine is, though, so it took some work to get that looking reasonable. She looked even better in her evening gown later on that night.
Unfortunately, this year I've got way too much work for school to prepare any kind of decent costume.
I'm a kilt man too. Play tuba in a combination brass band/bagpipe band. It's great...we play at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, NC every year. I've only been in the group for a couple of years but it's really cool to go up to the mountain and see the kilted longhairs. Have been growing my hair out now since last June and have already gotten comments from ladies in the band about it. Real curious to see how things pan out this July when we go back to play.
We are also going to Scotland in August to play. It will be interesting to see how folks react over there as far as the long hair is concerned. I'm 6'8" so I don't get much if any grief about what I do with my hair. Except my wife. But she seems to be changing her mind. Hair's getting longer and she seems to like it. That's wonderful!
Have a great day with your kilt. I hear that the Utilikilt is getting to be pretty popular too...Mike
"We are also going to Scotland in August to play. It will be interesting to see how folks react over there as far as the long hair is concerned"
why would we react? we all look like this
http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/Photos/T100834_C15307.html
One thing, anyone intending to go to Scotland or speak to a Scot - please do not call a kilt a 'skirt' or you may well wake up with several broken bones. We Scots really do not like that. (major insult)
I've heard this before, and with the modern-day "feminine" connotation of the word, it's understandable. Nevertheless, hiding behind an alternate word doesn't change that the kilt is indeed a skirt. It irks me when people go, "It's a kilt, not a skirt."
Then again, "kilt" sounds cooler. :P
Peace
A KILT came from the original PLAIDS that Highlanders wore, as indeed all men and women wore (an ARISAID is the female version). It was worn around the waist and over the shoulder and head (when it was cold) and measured some 10Metres or more. A very heavy material.
A skirt, however, is a modern term. It has nothing and never has anything to do with Highland Plaids or Kilts.
have a look here
http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/sub_section.jsp?SectionID=3¤tId=87
I appreciate that some people outside of Scotland are very uneducated in our history but when we do try to inform you or educate you, please listen. And dont piss us off, especially if you are visiting.
rant fkg over!
Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, NC
Hey Mike - I live in NC (coastal) and have been to G'Father Mtn. It's a beautiful spot and I've heard of the Highland Games. Hope I can get there this summer. If I do I'll defineately be wearing a kilt and have the long hair flowing. Be bringing my banjo too...; Peace - Bruce'ster
May I just say to all you kilted men that I think it's a wonderful look on guys. I have several friends (longhairs) that go kilted at least on occasion, and I really have to say it's a very masculine style. I'm a Pagan, and often times at festivals and ritual gatherins there will be quite a few men in kilts and skirts. Especially at summer festivals, there are a lot of men in sarongs.
Mouse
Thanks Mouse...guess two guys that come to my mind are Sean Connery and Mel Gibson. Longhaired Mel sported a kilt on Bravehart and it seemed to work for him just fine. When I first joined the band, I was a little hesitant about wearing it but that has changed. As a matter of fact, it's really comfortable.
Thanks for your support along the journey. Have a great weekend :-) Mike