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I've noticed that a lot of people in this forum are saying that they notice more longhairs and suggesting that it seems to be comming back into fashion. I'm not sure if this is the case in america but in England there are hardly any at all.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Cheers
I think I just notice them more now because my attention is drawn to it.
Well, Saturday, I went to South Beach and it was filled with long hairs. I thought it was pretty cool. But then again, maybe it's just that i'm noticing them more often now.
It's like the tide, it ebbs and flows.
I've visited The US (mainly San Francisco and LA) and Britain (mainly London and Manchester) a few time over the last seven years and I'd say I agree that there are much less longhairs in Britain versus the US today than there were in Britain back in the 1970's when I was a student there (which is regretable).
I still have fond memories of longhairs clad in faded flared jeans, long-sleeved tee shirt and denim shirt, denim jacket or black leather jacket.
However, back then, the longhair scene kind of ebbed and flowed. For much of the 70's longhairs were more hippie but towards the end of the 70's and into the 80's longhairs tended to be heavy metal rockers with even longer hair than the hippies.
Britain of course has always been more conservative than the US with regards longhair and except for students, factory jobs, manual jobs in the service industry and jobs in the music and entertainment industries it's almost impossible for longhairs to find work in the government or corporate sectors.
On the other hand Americans are generally more independent and entrepreneurial than the British and there are generally more opportunities to run one's own business in the US than Europe, so Americans are thus better placed to have an independent means of survival and thus long hair.
However, the question now is whether the 60's impulse which set off the current global longhair trend and subculture with its peace and love ethos has run its course and has been overtaken by events in a politically and culturally changed world, post 9/11.
Well, that's left to be seen.
Charles
I think the new fashion is very short hair these days. More and more people have buzzcuts. Even girls are starting to have shorter hair. Well, all I can say is that all these people are missing something!
Well, all I can say is that all these people are missing something!
yeah, their hair.
I live in UK and have noticed a definite trend of longer hair in men in the 20-40 age range. I have been growing my hair since last Oct and it will now tie back into 4" pig-tail (but I think I'll leave tying back until it's a fair bit longer!) A fair number of men seem to have hair that looks similar length to mine, and if you look through rock music mags there are long-haired men in photos of most groups. It's definitely on the way back in in SW England. There has been a reduction in the number of buzzcuts and total-skinheads, some of whom, no doubt, are now spiky-heads with flicked up points in the middle like Beckham. I would say the low point for long hair in men was probably around 1997. To me it's a men's rights issue, the right to be free from being pressurised by other men to get my hair cut. I think Women tend to prefer long hair on men anyway.
Cheers, Roller