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Well, I just wanted to point this out: http://www.target.com/ (yaya, I know it's not exactly the most stylish place) but the model with long hair looks cool. That's the exact same type of hair I have, and I'm shooting for that exact length or just a little longer. Doesn't look bad for being smack in the middle of the awkward stage, eh? :D
Justin
What guy with long hair? Went to the site, only saw someone with
short hair. Where did you see a long haired person?
Sorry, the guy with the LONGER hair.. should be on the left in the main page.. brown hair.. I hope you're not being sarcastic and saying that "long hair" is only hair that is past your shoulders or whatever. In my opinion long hair is anything past your ears, that society for the most part shuns. I personally dont like hair any longer than shoulder length on guys, just not interested in having that. But I hate the short haircuts that have been so dominant for so many years.. I cant wait untill short hair becuase unpopular again.
Justin
that guy has short hair! and i'm not being sarcastic either. and yes long hair = past sholders
If you ask the average person on the street they would say that the guy has long hair. when men's hair starts to hang and get pass ears people consider it long, bc the average male has short short hair. This board is for people interested in growing their hair longer than the usual buzz cut, and not everyone is aiming for hair that reaches their feet.
Would you guys settle for "medium?" BTW mine is slightly "longer" - just about like the female model (that's the one on the right)...only mine is white...
Before hair is past shoulder length it is considered long, now that it is below the shoulder it is considerd long and all else is short. Its human nature to make those comparisions. However all of us go through the short, awkward and long stage. Anything past the awkward stage is considered long - its long enough to do what you want. PPR
There are a whole range of lengths between a buzz cut and shoulder length that allows for individual styles and preferences. One man's awkward stage is another man's perfection. I also welcome the fact that advertisers are promoting a more relaxed look.
I also welcome the fact that advertisers are promoting a more relaxed look.
Without commenting on if the guy has long hair or not i just want to point out that that "more relaxed look" took a lot of time and work to be achieved. It is not so relaxed has it appears.
I think this is a better style and this is how I hope to have my hair when it gets to this length.
One of the more strange aspects of the Taleban regime is the way they stop Afgan men in the streets to measure the length of the guy's beard. If it's too short, boy do you get into hot water.
I'm not suggesting that anybody on this list is as nutty as that, but some people are getting close. Surely a long-haired guy is a longhaired guy is HE thinks that he is?
Just a thought.
Saul (whose hair is 5 inches long, right in the middle of the dreaded awkward stage.)
"Long" is a relative term, so we each have our own sense of what it means. There is also the "collective sense" of a term's meaning - how a majority of society would define it. In this thread we've been touching on both our private and the public senses of the meaning of the word "long".
I saw a friend at a party on Saturday. He had lost all his long hair due to cancer treatments. He was showing his drivers license to people he met, saying "this is the real me". I told him a lot of being a longhair is what you feel in your heart. We both cried.
Amen to that.
My heart goes out to your friend.
Regards
Saul
I'd call it "borderline long" or "longish", but some people would see it as long. In any event, it's nice! Far nicer than so many models we see almost devoid of hair.
It's been my experience that people might say a man "has long hair" at a shorter length than they will call him a "longhair". When a man's hair buries his ears quite a few people will say it is long, but few would apply the label "longhair" to him until his hair has passed his shoulders to the point it is falling on them.
This probably speaks to the concept that "long", as an adjective, is just describing the relative length of the man's hair to some other standard in the mind of the speaker. "Longhair" as a noun, slips you into a perceived social group, and the public is more of a common mind when it comes to defining social groups. When your hair has gotten long enough to suddenly earn you one or more of the perceived stereotypes we talk and sometimes joke about, then you're a longhair.
Put another way and in less words: "In the awkward stage you have long hair already but you aren't a longhair yet." :-)
This is likely why men in the awkward stage get hassled the most about their hair. Yeah, awkward stage hair looks funky, but beyond that, you're seen as a member of the shorthaired men's club still, but with hair too long, so they hassle you over it. Once you become a longhair, your hair fits your perceived social group and a lot of people will then see no incongruity and leave you alone.
As for longhairs being a social group, most likely we're loosely several different ones, and some longhairs don't identify with any group in particular. But what counts is that to people on the outside, the ones appending the label, we're one of "those people" - a group in their eyes. And "those people" are "the longhairs".
Of course, I don't mind the label. When a stranger first applied it to me, I considered it a rite of passage!
Bill
Well, remember when the Beatles first stepped off of the plane in America? Everyone with short hair and white shirts was calling the Beatles (short) hair "long".
I'd have to say that longhair qualifiers are judged from 2 distinct perspectives: the "short haired person" and the "long haired person".
Personally, I'd feel more comfortable with the opinion of someone who is there or at least has been in the past. Who would know better?
We-e-e-ell-ll-ll.. I suppose in comparison to the rather shorn-back-n
-sides more-than-miltary look we often see amongst young'uns today,
that'd be long hair......relatively....
OM
That is short hair. For me to consider the hair to be long
I expect it to be down half way down the back or waist length.
Anything shorter I consider it short hair.
I know 'long hair' has a different definition for everyone, but middle of the back-waist length? I'd say that's a little close-minded considering not many people have that sort of length.
Long hairs and the label close-minded certainly don't go together.
For a good definition of what LONG hair is go to: http://hairreligion.com