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Nightwish is my favorite metal band in the world. I visit their site almost every day. Tonight, they posted a pick of a few members of the new generation of Nightwish fans that is just too cool not to share with everyone here.
These are Antto, Niro, and Luna! Longhaired toddlers! How cool is that!
Very nice! I wonder if they will keep the long hair
when they get older?!
Really neat photo! And to think, in the US, (20th Century up until around the 20's or so) boys hair wasn't cut until they were about 5 years of age! For the most part (of what I was told from my own parents) this was a common practice. Then the "locks" were cut and kept as a "keepsake!" (I speak of the New England area.) But, the "locks" were not a scalping by any means.
Thanks Justin, I recalled that in the past boys kept their baby hair but did not know it was left for more time than toddlerhood. That might explain a photo I found on the link's page at Rapunzel's Delight. They have bangs cut though so maybe their mother simply liked long hair and these brothers kept their hair beyond five.
Lovely find Nyghtfall, those kids are endearing.
Elizabeth
Actually from the information I have, it wasn't just the hair that was kept long on young boys in the early 20th Century, during the toddler years apparently it was customary to dress boys and girls in the same way, so boys under 2/3 were dressed like girls.
I don't think it was so much a case as dressing them "as girls", but more that preschool fashions were unisex, though they are more recogniseable as feminine by todays standards. My mom has a photo of her father aged 3 and you'd think he was a girl. But aparently this was "the way" back then. (circa 1918-1920)
Sorted
Hey Sorted-
I of course am only speaking of what I knew when very young........and it could have only been a New England thing? My parents are now both deceased. I have a few photos of my Dad with Long Hair and dressed as a little girl. NOBODY thought I thing of it back then except probably "cute?"
I can well imagine from what I have seen of my own Dad, as well as photos spotted every now and then in Antique Shoppes. (Some of which have been photographed on Tin!) This would date the practice even earlier. I have never seen a Dagarotype(sp?) Photo which is the earliest dating back to the discovery of photography in 1832 with a long hair boy.
Now to a more "grim" remembrance of the "olde." When a person died, a lock of hair was cut and kept in a box as a "keepsake" of whoever the beloved (or disliked) was. YIKES! And to think, in my dresser draw when I was not even 10 years of age were kept several of these "keepsake" boxes of ancestors I never even met. A Grandfather, Great grandfather, and one box with a missing lable!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps an original Pilgrim? lol
Hope you have a great weekend Sorted!
Justin~
I had shoulder length hair until I was about 3 in the mid 1950s - ther used to be a photo, but I've not seen it for ages.
By the way, It's Daguerreotype after Louis Daguerre who invented an early form of photographic printing.
Yes, it was he that discovered around 1832 that by coating (copper I believe) with silver, (most probably Silver Nitrate) that an image could be affixed of what his invented primitive Camera was aimed at. The lense was uncapped for his 1st photo and left that way on a windowsill for about 10 mins. as I recall before the lense was capped again. The result was the 1st photograph of a street view somewhere in Paris France. (It was quite indistinct compared to what he soon improved upon.)
Of interest is that the Daguerreotype images were extremely accurate and equal (in their own way) to what the finast camera made today is capable of achieving in detail. But, because of the great shine to them caused by the Silver, one had to hold the photo just right to see it. Early experiments were to hand-apply colour. Quite striking.
That is totally cool and it brings back memories. Back when I was growing my hair out I remember a couple who had 3 small boys from 4 to 8 years old with nearly waist length hair. They were an inspiration for me to grow my hair to my waist and beyond. Sadly, they begged their parents to let them get haircuts, and the parents finally gave in. At least for a couple of years it was really cool to see these 3 small boys with nearly waist length locks. Absalom
Very Cool! and if they're metal fans and stay metal fan there's a good chance the locks will stay. I love the bandanas too.
That is most awesome! They are going to be so happy when they're older, they won't feel the need to conform so heavily to other people's fashion examples.
Nightwish ROCK! I like 'em too. Have you ever heard of Dream Theater and Symphony X? They're a similar type of progressive metal and very cool.
That picture's really cool by the way!
