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...SO MANY definitions and pictures...don't know WHAT to think anymore...
...IS THERE a definition?
...Then WHAT is IT?
...Some think it's any hair length covering the ears...
...Others say 'NOSE length'.....'chin length'...
....'TO the SHOULDERS'....
...'Just beyond the shoulders'.....
....'SHOULDER BLADES'....say others....
....NO! ....'mid-back'....
....HA..HA....'it's WAIST-LENGTH' (if THAT's your terminal growth)...
...and SO....a 'WAIST-LENGTH' looks at a 'SHOULDER-LENGTH'...
....and thinks WHAT?
....GUIDELINES ...
..... PLEASE
I think the best answer is that it's all subjective.
Everytime I see somebody with hair to their shoulders or
longer I think to myself, 'cool, long hair'. However,
I never truly thought of my hair as 'long' until it got
to the middle of my back. I still feel like it isn't
long enough, but hopefully it'll keep growing...
I guess long hair is whatever you think it is. I
suppose you could categorize lengths if you wanted
to, but I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Everytime I see somebody with hair to their shoulders or
longer I think to myself, 'cool, long hair'."
....personally I think shoulder length IS what ANYbody would
consider long hair....beyond that...
....it's all icing on the cake.
Anyone with any lenght of hair would be a longhair to someone who has the misfortune of being bald...he..he.
I am.
The Rev
I think you should post a pic so we can SEE what one looks like!
I wish I had one. The only pix I have that I could post are back in the buzzcut days of yore when I was at the Police Academy.
The Rev
Your hair should be considered long when *YOU* think it is - whatever that length.
I've seen some post here that (whoever) really doesn't have long hair because it isn't below his shoulders - or down his back - or whatever. That is as much a form of bigotry as those who say that there is something wrong with someone who has long hair. If you like it and consider it long - then it's long, regardless of the opinions of others.
I think that the definition of "long" has been determined by society which is adjustable from decade to decade. If the majority of men in a society has hair that is kept cut above the ears (50s or so), then anything longer is considered "long hair". If most young men have taken to wearing their hair to the top of their shoulders (popular current style) then as a new adjusted norm "long" would be past the shoulders. In the 80's when many a rock band was sporting "long" hair, I would see someone with hair to their butt and say "wow, now that's long hair". I got used to the shoulderblade lenth hair that was quite common in those circles and considered it the "norm".
I think that we already have models of what really long hair is. If it touches the ground (Crystal Gail, etc.) then that is pretty much the extreme side of long where it won't get walked on when wearing it down. We already know that a buzzcut is just about as far as you can go to the other extreme without going bald, so find the middle ground, call that "long" and any hair that is longer is really long and hair that is shorter is not so long.
Of course no one will agree with me on that but it is a guide where the confusion of this question keeps coming up.
If someone else's hair is longer than yours then their hair is a better definition of what long is. It doesn't mean that yours isn't longer than someone else's but in an extreme enviroment like "the longhair hyperboard" you must take into consideration that attitudes toward hair will be extreme. Don't do the I'm-being-discriminated-against thing because that really doesn't apply here. We really don't even know who most people here are.
Considerably longer than average, thats' about all you vcan say!