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Professor Melon:
 ;D On the aesthetics front. My daughter, a New Yorker but presently living in LA, where she's learning filming-making, has requested the official NYFD calendar for Christmas since 9/11. So I went to Barnes & Noble to pick one up. Of the 12 hot firefighters, four are totally bald (two by nature, two by head shaving). Only one firefighters is black, so the bald look is no longer a largely black phenomenon. The guys are in great shape, so, now that we've mastered the art of shaving, it's time to get back to the exercises and workouts to complete the look. Professor Melon

PigPen:
As always, well spoken Professor. We would probably exude even more confidence with the bald look if we were in shape as well.

Guess I can tell my wife she's wrong, I am a pillar of fashion...and stuff.
Ah hell, nevermind...she wouldn't buy it anyway.    :D

marshd1000:
Professor Melon, you are right about getting in shape.  I really need to do that and my doctor says so!  But that reminds me of a commercial I recently had seen for Bowflex.  This commercial shows a really buff 49 yr old guy.  He seems to have it all.  A great career, great body (via the Bowflex) and a gig in a rock band.  He even performs shirtless and shows those abs of steel.  But while he is in great shape, it also shows that bald, specifically shaved, is very in and acceptable!

MC HammerHead:
I have been shaving my head now for 7 years.  It was a functional thing for me not a fashion thing.  Like many of us I was thinning at my crown and my forehead but I was also participating (and still do) in sports  that require putting on and taking off a helmet several times during an event or a practice session.  I began like most of you probably did, using a trimmer (at the barber), working my way down to a 1 blade and then no guard and finally taking the shaving plunge.
For me I was NOT trying to create a particular look or style. 

What is interesting to me though is over the last three years in particular it seems as Pro. Mel has pointed out,  become a fashion style that is getting a great deal of acceptance.   As early as only 1O years ago you could only name a small handful of celebs that had the shine going on: Teli Savalis (sp?) and Yul Brenner.  Now there are bunches of them.

Headblade made its debut around 2000 I believe.  They saw the trend coming and helped promote it.  They also made it easier in many peoples minds to actually maintain the look. 

I have never been one to follow trends.  Being an old extreme sport guy my casual style has always basically been reflective of my sports.  Being a former rugby and soccer player I also trended toward european styling when it comes to dress clothes.   It seems now that my shaved look has me smack in the middle of a growing trend.

I will be 44 years old on Saturday....it has taken this long to finally be COOL!  I am STOKED!!  (ok..I know..stoked dates me but stoked and dude removed from my vocabulary would be like taking the phrase "Get er dun" out of Larry the Cable Guy)

Professor Melon:
 ;D ;D Happy Birthday, Hammerhead! I've got twenty years on you  but agree that chossing total baldness has put me where I never thought it would, in the middle of a cool fashion trend. And, yes, I think the bald look goes better with Euro than American clothes. I was indifferent to clothes until the first head shaving. I just plugged along in the traditional, conservative Ivy League (Brooks Bros.) style I grew up with, and really old jeans-and-pullovers on weekends. To my wife's delight, I have now noticed turtlenecks, silver or stainless jewelry, black leather jackets, and shades. It's a mode I never had before baldness; call it "casual cool," for lack of a better phrase. This new awareness, she tells me with sly hints, has made her and my daughter's Christmas shopping for me easier than it has ever been. So, while it's still "academicals" for teaching, there's a whole new persona for playtime. Professor Melon

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