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I am interested to hear from any men who lived through the 70's in the UK. I am 21 and a first time long hair grower. I have been interested in the 70's styles for a while. I wanted to know the different stages of the 70's. I believe hair was worn longer in the early 70's, true? When did hair styles start getting shorter? Was it in about 1976 with punk beginning? Also, was long hair still seen in the late 70's early 80's or was it beginning to become unaccepted?
A question to long-hairs of all ages, I have only now started observing what hair lengths men have in the UK because I now grow my hair and before I was too young to even care; but do you think long hair has become even rarer since 2000's began or is it more common than in the 90's?
And does any one ever see a time when long hair will be in mainstream fashion again like in the 70's? I don't believe we will see it for many years yet! But you never can tell with fashion.
Guilty - had Northern Soulie hair for the second half of the 70s (Skiii-iiing in the Snow bah bah bah bah-bah-bah)! Complete with curled under/blow dried ends, layering, the lot. Grotesque really. Check out the link below for a terrible reminder of those wilderness years. I seem to remember that in the mid-70s there was no such thing as conditioner (well not in Coalville, Leicestershire anyway)and I must have had hair the quality of a Brillo pad.
http://www.thisoldsoul.net/wigov.htm
I'm waiting to see the impact David Beckham's hair will have on mainstream fashion - it's beginning to look like 'proper' long hair now from the pictures in this weekend's papers.
I'm waiting to see the impact David Beckham's hair will have on mainstream fashion - it's beginning to look like 'proper' long hair now from the pictures in this weekend's papers.
It is REAL long hair, or will he go MAD and get RID of it!!
I’m betting its extensions. Either that or exceptional growth rate. From buzz to that in 6 mths? doubtful...
MAN U gotta be kidding! :)
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I think that Beckham's hair looks slightly daft... He achieves his more longhaired look, by wearing headband, and it works - His hair isn't really that long, but you wouldn't realise that from a quick glance. However, i think in the end it looks a bit weird, as his hair seems to sprout from the head - Pushed up by the hairband. I doubt whether Beckham wouild grow his hair properly long - I get the impression that he will stick with medium length "trendy" styles.
I think David Beckham's hair looks cool and i think it suits him,everyone says that it looks horrible etc but its upto him how he does it hair no matter what other people think!
Hey kid! Punk was never so popular that it got long haired guys (rockers mostly, I guess) to cut their hair. Besides, the Ramones had long hair. And, in America at least, punk got influenced by metal so much that it mutated into grunge, while more oi influenced music broke off and stayed short haired. Also, in some parts, punks went goth, and grew their hair out. Last time I saw FEAR, Lee Ving had a head of long white hair! Dick from the Subhumans has some kind of hair deal going too. You can be a long haired punk!
Anyway, to get back on the short hair topic.... I think that short hair came back, in the US, with Ronald Reagan and the conservative revolution. The liberals were given the boot, and people got into dressing very conservative and having short hair. Overall, though, I don't think really long hair has ever been the fashion. Slightly longer hair has, at times, but even then I don't think it was too popular except with young guys.
have fun growin it out.
To me it seems long hair is actually more common nowadays among men. Around where I live at least, I'd say that about 40% of men around here have long hair. And people who believe that men are supposed to have short hair generally accept people without ridicule.
I think long hair for men reached its low point in the mid 90's, when head shaving was at its peak. Since then it's been slowly on the increase. In the 70's the 'mainstream' non-hippie long hairstyles tended to be layered, or feathered, giving a different look from today's long all-over style. Even suited businessmen and politicians combed their previously slicked-back sides down over their ears, including British Tory PM Edward Heath!
Cheers, Barry