Old Fashioned ??

[dick]

I don't get out a great deal and watch cricket and football on TV . Why are modern sportsmen adopting the hairstyles they do ??
Their hair is long on top or on one side. The rest is near enough shaved ! They remind me of the New Romantics on the pop scene a few years ago!My mother would have been saying, How can they see to play with their hair flopping in their eyes ??

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Latest style seems to stem from the fifties when people like the Everly Brothers , James Dean all had similar cuts but they now have sides cut with either a number 1 or 0 comb on the trimmer

 

[Pearl]

David Beckham wearing an Alice band was a step to far! And what's with man buns? Men need to look like men!

 

[dick]

My brother -in-law still sports a D A style Just like the Everleys!

 

[Pearl]

Not a lot you can say about without swearing.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Well the !"£$%^&*()_+ characters offer you the opportunity to imply swearing , give it a go Pearl

 

[dick]

Not a lot you can say about without swearing.

!"£$%^&*()+ tells you how much I think of my brother in law.

 

[RickAns]

Don't think I have actually seen those you are referring to Dick but think I know what you mean. I heard about Beckham and the hair band, not impressed. Same as with the man buns, not impressed. Even 'the Hound' from Game of Thrones made fun of a guy with the man bun.

Some of those type of less extreme styles I do not find too bad, but those are on TV shows and they make sense for their context. Like Ragnarok's on the show Vikings - enjoyed the first few seasons of that. The group called Belters (they live in the asteroid belt) in the awesome sci-fi show called The Expanse. I like the hairstyles in the great show Peaky Blinders. Would like to get a proper Tommy Shelby style haircut but have yet to find a place that has heard of the show, let alone seen it. Taking in printed pictures does not always help...

 

[Adanor]

A hairdo that is long on top and shaved sides is called a Mohawk, which were American Indians who were depicted in the movies, riding horses at top speed and war whooping at they fought the American troops.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

I think an atypical Mohican haircut is slightly different to what Dick is referring to see below.

 

[barmpot]

Since so little grown the top of my pate I think I can safely say I shall not be following this trend! there again if anyone saw my sartorial approach would know - fashionable is not the word. I perfected my style about 1966 and have stuck with it. Even the gentlemen's EDT dates from 1966!