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These students would have benefited from having long hair imho!
I grew up on the 60s and started my long hair journey when the Beatles started growing their hair.
It happened because our generation decided to fight the Status
Quo.
It was not an easy road, there was much resistance,
especially from school administrators. I had to endure
numerous suspensions from school to earn the right to
grow my hair.
But when I look further down on this board, in particular at the
schools in Texas, it becomes painfully obvious how far we haven't come in the area of freedom to grow your hair long..
I was also one of many that immediately started combing my hair differently after that Sunday evening in Feb. of 1964. My hair had been trimmed in the popular "Princeton cut" Long on top and front but neatly trimmed at the ears and collar. It did not take long and a few refusals to go to the barber. for me to have a full fledged 'Beatle' haircut. That coupled with a slight Brit accent (Develpoed earlier when my patternal grandmother insisted I have dicrion lessons as a wee lad) made me quite popular with the young ladies (I was 12 at the time, so were they) My hair continued to gorw as the 60s wore on. Had some issues with school admin. but my GPA kept them at bay. My parents were bemused at first. but gave surprisingly little resistance, other than the initial "get a haircut" tirades. Lucky, I suppose I was. By the ebd of the 60s it was well below my shoulders and grew ever longer as the 70s dawned. There were times and places in that period where it truly was dangerous, to life and limb, to be a long haired male.
HOLY S**T. That's the worst hair I've ever seen on girls. It's bloody disgusting. What were they thinking, going to school looking like that. As for the guys, they all look like the average working class male nowadays only without the wrinkles and hair plugs XD. LOL, nice find. I agree they really do look lame.
I wonder if they had some sort of hair length code for the girls back then because I don't see any long hair on any of the girls.
mostly short and poofy hairdos.
yes, but it could have been because of the dress code. most of these kids probably were fans of the Beatles and would've preferred to wear their hair differently.
You are so right. That was my era and definitely the way it was at my high school. The guys would get sent home if their hair even thought about overlapping any part of the ear. The way the Beatles wore it when they first came out was about two or three inches longer than our dress code would allow.
As far as clothes go, girls were made to wear dresses only--and even then, they had to be at "regulation length" or they would be sent home to change clothes, One awful day in the winter of my Senior year, a girl's mother dared to send her to school in thick cordouroy bell-bottoms because it was so cold outside. She was in first-hour MAYBE ten minutes before she got sent home to change.
The kids didn't have any choice at all--we were all under the jurisdiction of what they said the students had to do, if we wanted to stay in school at all. Things have changed a little over the years, but not nearly enough.
Steve
Yikes! Even the girls had relatively short hair! Not one of the girls (with the single exception of row 3, far left - and maybe a couple more if it wasn't all curled up) has hair as long as mine!
As for the boys ... how on earth could people think they looked good like that. What were they trying to raise? Cyborgs?
No wonder they thought the Beatles had long hair - though their hair at that time (1964-5) seems quite short to us now.
Damon
Damon, that is wxactly what "they " were hoping to raise, Mindless cyborgs, programmed to do what is needed for the cold war military /industrial complex. Fortunately, There were free thinkers, myself included, that flat refused to hew to that line. And today, in spite of all the mucking about that has been done. I dare say we are all better off for it.
I would guess that this was a private religious school with a very
strict dress code.
The kids probably had very little latitude in how they wore their hair.
Well in the mid 1960's at the time this was the hair fashion for the mainstream kids and adults. Looking back from a 2010's perspective the high school kids do have the appearnce of being very dorky and could be have been prime candidates as film extras in Revenge of the Nerds.
And remember those mullet hairstyles from the 1980's period. Well I sported that hair cut for awhile in my teenage years and at the time thought it was cool. Now 20 years later I cringe when I see old pictures of that era with that awful haircut that makes the wearer look a complete moron/hick/neanderthal. It is a truly a haircut that almost nobody wants to wear these days but was really hot back then.
Just my two cents worth. Maybe in the distant future people may look back at our time and laugh at the short hair that most men have at present.
I'm willing to bet that by 1969 many of those boys had long hair.
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