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Title: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: DoberDaddy on March 18, 2023, 01:39:37 AM
I was thinking about this the other day.

It was a major battle between myself and my dad me. Threats of "if you don't go to the barber, I will shave it off myself," etc.

Of course, once I started shaving it, that was never an issue, and it became the opposite, "when are you going to grow some hair" until he realized I couldn't.

I think the fight over hair length went out with the 8-Track player in cars.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on March 18, 2023, 05:29:29 AM
I definitely remember it! I was fired from my job in 1973 for refusing to get a haircut.

A few years before that, when I was about 13 yo, my mom picked my brother and I from school to go to the barbershop. The Beatles were getting popular then so we had longer hair growing over the ears. My dad ordered crewcuts for us, and we weren't happy! So my brother went first, and with his light colored hair, looked nearly bald. When it was my turn, I bolted out of the barbershop and refused to get it cut. Well, my dad was furious, and took me back the next day. I got the crewcut and it wasn't that bad, just got ribbed a little at school the next day.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: clint902 on March 18, 2023, 02:28:53 PM
Oh I remember the term "hey hippie!"  Back then I thought long hair was cool(at least according to my friends).  Well, turns out it wasn't really that cool.  I just went with the flow then a couple of my friends got bald on top.  There's no way I can describe the shift in attitudes.  I guess it was just a "peer" thing.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: slybeard on March 20, 2023, 07:30:55 AM
I never really got into the "long hair" thing that was going strong in the 70's, so it was never really an issue for  me.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razorhead on March 21, 2023, 05:23:55 AM
Yeah I remember those days! I hated getting a haircut. I had that classic 80s look with the center part and hair over the ears. Dad didn’t like it at all. For my one haircut, my dad told the barber to “sandpaper” the sides. I went from having the longest hair in my class to Army short. Going to school was brutal.  I grew it back out though.

Once I got into my 20s, it was a different story. I wanted my hair short and eventually worked up the nerve and got my first flattop. Eventually, I started getting high and tights, then clipper shaved.  I was getting a haircut every 2 weeks.

In hindsight, instead of teen rebellion with my Dad I should have just fallen in line and kept that sandpaper short haircut.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on March 21, 2023, 06:32:53 AM
When I hit the 1980's, I started going a little shorter, and I liked it. Then I married a hairstylist, and she hated short hair. I went though several hairstyles, including perms! I was the guinea pig for everything new my wife was trying out. I did convince her to let me get a long flattop once, and she hated it.

It was great to get to the point where I didn't care what anyone else wanted, and I discovered how awesome it was to sport a shaved head.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razorhead on March 21, 2023, 12:24:27 PM
@reddog  Ugh perms. I had a teacher with poker straight hair and his wife talked him into a perm. What a mistake!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on March 21, 2023, 01:37:28 PM
I trusted her, she was the best stylist. It didn't look bad, I kinda had a mullet thing going on. I always hated the smell from a perm, made me gag!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: slybeard on March 21, 2023, 02:05:46 PM
I trusted her, she was the best stylist. It didn't look bad, I kinda had a mullet thing going on. I always hated the smell from a perm, made me gag!

OK, you have got to find us an old photo of the perm/mullet hair!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razorhead on March 21, 2023, 03:07:37 PM
If you are going to do a mullet, you might as well go big and do it right. That’s awesome.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on March 23, 2023, 08:24:31 AM
I was thinking about this the other day.

It was a major battle between myself and my dad me. Threats of "if you don't go to the barber, I will shave it off myself," etc.

Of course, once I started shaving it, that was never an issue, and it became the opposite, "when are you going to grow some hair" until he realized I couldn't.

I think the fight over hair length went out with the 8-Track player in cars.

Oh yeah!

Is my forelock  got anywhere near my eyes I got told to get a haircut or my mother would grab a pair of shears  and she would cut it!  And that was always a fate worse than death!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on March 23, 2023, 01:24:52 PM
The 70's and 80's must have been devastating for traditional barbers! Then in the 80's and 90's guys were all going to salon stylists.

Remember when there were basically only two guys with shaved heads? Yul Brenner and Telly Savalas were way ahead of their time! I wonder why shaved heads didn't catch on back then? Just too radical I guess.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on March 24, 2023, 09:44:48 AM
The 70's and 80's must have been devastating for traditional barbers! Then in the 80's and 90's guys were all going to salon stylists.

Remember when there were basically only two guys with shaved heads? Yul Brenner and Telly Savalas were way ahead of their time! I wonder why shaved heads didn't catch on back then? Just too radical I guess.
Yes it was definitely radical but I remember even then thinking that those guys were  “way cool”! But it wasn’t until the 1990s and the advent of head shaving fundraisers that I had the balls to try it myself.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: BaldBlindAt20 on March 25, 2023, 08:56:20 AM
I was fighting with my parents in 2010s because I never wanted to go to hairdresser so I had an abhorrent mullet for 3 years haha

I bet kids today also fight with their parents because of their hair
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razor X on March 25, 2023, 09:17:06 AM
The 70's and 80's must have been devastating for traditional barbers! Then in the 80's and 90's guys were all going to salon stylists.

Remember when there were basically only two guys with shaved heads? Yul Brenner and Telly Savalas were way ahead of their time! I wonder why shaved heads didn't catch on back then? Just too radical I guess.

60 Minutes did a feature on Yul Brynner shortly before he died. It included some brief footage of him shaving his head with a razor just before going on stage.  I remember being simultaneously fascinated and appalled.  It was something I could t imagine anyone ever doing but at the same time I did wonder what it would be like to do it. It didn’t occur to me then that I’d ever try it myself.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on March 25, 2023, 02:28:45 PM
I was fighting with my parents in 2010s because I never wanted to go to hairdresser so I had an abhorrent mullet for 3 years haha

I bet kids today also fight with their parents because of their hair

They absolutely do!  And sometimes they are still fighting with their parents tell them to get into my barber chair1

These days the late middle schoolers that early highschoolers like to let the whole forelock long and curly and falling down in front of the rise and some of them their hair is so long that they have to wear a baseball cap or false in front of their faceS!

On the flipside ——-  About 10 years ago or more my nephew kept wanting to shave his head and his mother refused to let him do it.  She finally Allowed him to try it when he was 14.  After that she fought with him about it until he was 16 and she just gave up fighting and he’s kept that shaved clean ever since he was 16 years old right through high school college and everything and still to this day in his 20’S!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Barbero Pelón on March 26, 2023, 07:06:59 AM
I was fighting with my parents in 2010s because I never wanted to go to hairdresser so I had an abhorrent mullet for 3 years haha

I bet kids today also fight with their parents because of their hair

They absolutely do!  And sometimes they are still fighting with their parents tell them to get into my barber chair1

These days the late middle schoolers that early highschoolers like to let the whole forelock long and curly and falling down in front of the rise and some of them their hair is so long that they have to wear a baseball cap or false in front of their faceS!

On the flipside ——-  About 10 years ago or more my nephew kept wanting to shave his head and his mother refused to let him do it.  She finally Allowed him to try it when he was 14.  After that she fought with him about it until he was 16 and she just gave up fighting and he’s kept that shaved clean ever since he was 16 years old right through high school college and everything and still to this day in his 20’S!


Wow,so young and already chose the cueball life.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razorhead on March 27, 2023, 05:01:19 AM
On the flipside ——-  About 10 years ago or more my nephew kept wanting to shave his head and his mother refused to let him do it.  She finally Allowed him to try it when he was 14.  After that she fought with him about it until he was 16 and she just gave up fighting and he’s kept that shaved clean ever since he was 16 years old right through high school college and everything and still to this day in his 20’S!

Yeah there was definitely a generation that was the opposite. They didn’t want any of their hair! I worked with a guy who clipper shaved his head since high school. So he’s going on 25 yrs.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razor X on March 27, 2023, 02:22:17 PM
In the early 2000s a lot of kids were asking their parents to let them have their heads shaved, but it was just a passing fad.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Cave Dweller on April 11, 2023, 04:21:28 PM
In the early 70’s I was in the Texas Boys’ Choir which required us to keep our hair cut in the extremely unfashionably short style of the early 60’s. As soon as my voice cracked, and I was “retired”, I grew it as long as I could to make up for lost time. My dad only stopped me when it got to my jaw line.
Then the Saturday Night Fever disco feathering thing came around. I am so glad I got over that one quickly and very few pics exist to remind me of that period.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: clipped on August 09, 2023, 12:26:09 PM
I have not visited in a while, but this post caught my attention. I never had hair longer than bottom of my ear in the ‘70s but do remember dad saying, “get a haircut”.  In the ‘80s as I entered a conservative profession, I adopted a “businessman’s regular” around the ears and quite liked it. in the ‘90s, my barber once suggested a “High & Tight” but didn’t explain that it would look better with my advancing thinly covered dome.  I wish he had been more forceful. In the mid-2000s, a new barber suggested a crew cut. I was hesitant. He surprised me one day with a 3-2-1 Ivy League which I liked. We moved onto to buzzcuts and eventually a #00000 clipper shave (he didn’t do razor head shaves). That’s when I found this site, which was very helpful.   He also did a few H&T flattops for me but eventually said that I didn’t have enough left for him to do that.  I switched to doing my own buzzcuts and first head shave in 2004, alternating between buzzcuts and occasional razor shaves.  I had to do my over version of the 30-day rule (mine was a-365-day rule) to totally accept being shaved &/or clipper shaved bald.  I love the look now and it fits with my conservative profession.

Now I am struggling with the idea of being bald and bearded, which doesn’t exactly fit with my conservative profession.  I have grown my beard a few times, but never more than 11 weeks.  After getting past the first 3-4 weeks, I quite like the look. My hair is all white and I am pale. My wife is not fond of my having a beard. She thinks it makes me look older.  It does.  But I am in fairly good physical shape, not overweight and I think being bearded I look “age appropriate”. I am not obsessed with looking younger although most people think that I am about 5 years younger than my 71 years. However, I am fortunate in having a wife who looks quite a bit younger than her age; she is 6 years younger than I am.

I also have tried a solo mustache, which I had for 5 years or so in my early 20s.  But now, I would like a larger casual handlebar style. Again, not exactly very conservative.  I find that accepting the changed appearance of being bearded or having facial hair of some type is similar to the process of accepting shaving my head and accepting being bald. it can be a long process.  Negative reactions of friends and family doesn’t help.   Any advice would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: slybeard on August 09, 2023, 12:47:55 PM
@clipped I am a similar age and had a similar experience. Consultative family, consultative job and lifestyle. As such, I always wanted a beard and a "more aggressive) hairstyle, but never dared anything beyond the business man haircut, with a solo mustache, or close trimmed circle beard (mustache with goatee).  in the 80's, I wanted a mullet but did not dare to try it.  In the 90's, I wanted the high-n-tight, but again did not.   By the time I turned 50, I finally told myself i no longer want to just please others.  It was too late for my hairstyle wishes as I had started headshaving around age 49.  But it was time to let my facial hair go, and grow.  Since then it has been big full beard and handlebar length mustache (sometime styles as a handlebar, mostly not).  I have been having fun with it for nearly 12 years.

My wife and mother were not fond of my style choices for the first 6 to 12 months, and after that accepted it, and maybe even liked it a bit.  But I also learned the in my profession and life in general, no one really cared about my hairstyle or facial hair choices.  All the years I spent holding myself back from what I wanted due to my own perceived restrictions were wasted.

So my advice, ignore the negative reactions from friends and family.  They will accept your style, or at least stop commenting once they see that their comments have no effect.  Even if they do bother you, keep it to yourself, or make a joke out of it.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on August 10, 2023, 12:55:22 PM
@clipped I am a similar age and had a similar experience. Consultative family, consultative job and lifestyle. As such, I always wanted a beard and a "more aggressive) hairstyle, but never dared anything beyond the business man haircut, with a solo mustache, or close trimmed circle beard (mustache with goatee).  in the 80's, I wanted a mullet but did not dare to try it.  In the 90's, I wanted the high-n-tight, but again did not.   By the time I turned 50, I finally told myself i no longer want to just please others.  It was too late for my hairstyle wishes as I had started headshaving around age 49.  But it was time to let my facial hair go, and grow.  Since then it has been big full beard and handlebar length mustache (sometime styles as a handlebar, mostly not).  I have been having fun with it for nearly 12 years.

My wife and mother were not fond of my style choices for the first 6 to 12 months, and after that accepted it, and maybe even liked it a bit.  But I also learned the in my profession and life in general, no one really cared about my hairstyle or facial hair choices.  All the years I spent holding myself back from what I wanted due to my own perceived restrictions were wasted.

So my advice, ignore the negative reactions from friends and family.  They will accept your style, or at least stop commenting once they see that their comments have no effect.  Even if they do bother you, keep it to yourself, or make a joke out of it.

I have to absolutely agree with this advice!   You really must do what makes you happy and what makes you feel good about the inner man inside of you.  Please don’t waste a single day of your life compromising your true self because of what you “think”
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: chuck63 on August 11, 2023, 07:34:00 AM
I was told to go get a haircut many times as a teenager.  I never would have done it at the time, but looking back, I should have asked for a head shave. 
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on August 13, 2023, 07:29:09 PM
On a related note:   Does anyone remember their parents getting fed up with their long hair and sitting them down and chopping off their hair?

My mother chopped off my forelock once and my father a few times threaten to shave my head- But I knew that was an idle threat!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on August 14, 2023, 05:20:49 AM
My dad cut our hair up to about 10 years old. He wasn't very good at it! It was a tradition in our neighborhood that the day after school was out for the summer, our dads would give us a "heinie" haircut. Basically it was a no guard clipper shave. It was the late 50's, so short hair was the norm.

One time, my mom tried to trim our bangs, it was a disaster.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razorhead on August 14, 2023, 08:16:18 AM
I was told to go get a haircut many times as a teenager.  I never would have done it at the time, but looking back, I should have asked for a head shave.

If we only knew then what we know now. I would have stayed with a short military haircut with sandpaper sides instead of fighting with my dad over wanting longer hair. Missed opportunity on my part. After college I started cutting my hair super short. It would have saved everyone a lot of aggravation.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on August 14, 2023, 09:54:44 PM
My dad cut our hair up to about 10 years old. He wasn't very good at it! It was a tradition in our neighborhood that the day after school was out for the summer, our dads would give us a "heinie" haircut. Basically it was a no guard clipper shave. It was the late 50's, so short hair was the norm.

One time, my mom tried to trim our bangs, it was a disaster.

Red dog:  How old are you that you brought up the term; “Heinie” haircut.  When I was a kid we called that Haircut the same name ——AND ——- One of our neighbors down the street or a family with the last name; “Heinie”!  They had two boys and their family just like we did one my age and what about four years older who was my brother’s age.  Mrs. Heinie was a real tyrant.  She dictated every aspect of life in that household
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on August 14, 2023, 10:08:21 PM
My dad cut our hair up to about 10 years old. He wasn't very good at it! It was a tradition in our neighborhood that the day after school was out for the summer, our dads would give us a "heinie" haircut. Basically it was a no guard clipper shave. It was the late 50's, so short hair was the norm.

One time, my mom tried to trim our bangs, it was a disaster.

Red dog:  How old are you that you brought up the term; “Heinie” haircut.  When I was a kid we called that Haircut the same name ——AND ——- One of our neighbors down the street or a family with the last name; “Heinie”!  They had two boys and their family just like we did one my age and what about four years older who was my brother’s age.  Mrs. Heinie was a real tyrant.  She dictated every aspect of life in that household
My dad cut our hair up to about 10 years old. He wasn't very good at it! It was a tradition in our neighborhood that the day after school was out for the summer, our dads would give us a "heinie" haircut. Basically it was a no guard clipper shave. It was the late 50's, so short hair was the norm.

One time, my mom tried to trim our bangs, it was a disaster.

Red dog:  How old are you that you brought up the term; “Heinie” haircut.  When I was a kid we called that Haircut the same name ——AND ——- One of our neighbors down the street or a family with the last name; “Heinie”!  They had two boys and their family just like we did one my age and what about four years older who was my brother’s age.  Mrs. Heinie was a real tyrant.  She dictated every aspect of life in that household

Mrs. Heinie gave both of the boys their haircuts .  They We’re both blonde guys.  The one who was in high school was allowed to have a short back and sides with a side part comb-over.  With the one who was my age hated getting his haircut and always gave his mother a bad time about it.  Sooooo….. She always made short work of it and every Saturday gave that kid a zero buzz cut!  With that blond hair that kid looked positively bald!  Even for the 1960s that was pretty extreme for a kid to have what looked like a shaved head.  The kid absolutely hated it but she kept doing it to him until he got to be a junior in high school.
My dad cut our hair up to about 10 years old. He wasn't very good at it! It was a tradition in our neighborhood that the day after school was out for the summer, our dads would give us a "heinie" haircut. Basically it was a no guard clipper shave. It was the late 50's, so short hair was the norm.

One time, my mom tried to trim our bangs, it was a disaster.

Red dog:  How old are you that you brought up the term; “Heinie” haircut.  When I was a kid we called that Haircut the same name ——AND ——- One of our neighbors down the street or a family with the last name; “Heinie”!  They had two boys and their family just like we did one my age and what about four years older who was my brother’s age.  Mrs. Heinie was a real tyrant.  She dictated every aspect of life in that household
My dad cut our hair up to about 10 years old. He wasn't very good at it! It was a tradition in our neighborhood that the day after school was out for the summer, our dads would give us a "heinie" haircut. Basically it was a no guard clipper shave. It was the late 50's, so short hair was the norm.

One time, my mom tried to trim our bangs, it was a disaster.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on August 15, 2023, 06:11:14 AM
@Semi-Sly , I'm 69. I think hienie  was a term for a German.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Semi-Sly on August 16, 2023, 10:50:25 PM
@Semi-Sly , I'm 69. I think hienie  was a term for a German.
Yes you’re right “heinie” Was a slang word for someone of German origin. 
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on August 19, 2023, 06:24:32 AM
I was thinking about Yul Brenner and Telly Savalas wearing a shaved head back in the 60's. I wonder why headshaving didn't become a trend? While they got a ton of publicity for choosing to stay completely bald, it never caught on with men. I guess it was because that's when long hair was becoming the new hot trend. Darn those Beatles!
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: Razor X on August 19, 2023, 10:21:26 AM
If you were significantly balding anyway, you might have gotten away with a shaved head back then, but it would have been considered a real oddity for anyone to shave a non-balding scalp.  Yul and Telly were notable exceptions.  Other than them, I can’t think of any time prior to the mid-1990s, when a shaved head was considered desirable or fashionable.
Title: Re: Anyone one old enough to remember being told "Get a haircut" as a kid/teen?
Post by: reddog on August 21, 2023, 01:21:42 PM
I just watched an old rerun of Dean Martin's celebrity roast of Telly Savalas. There were several jokes about his shaved head. Someone also mentioned that women were nuts about him, and his bald head made him a sex symbol.