Modern Hair Styling - 1950s that is
Sep 27, 2022 10:26:01 #
UHH has a slew of old timers, like me. Have you ever had any of these modern hair styles in the 1950s?
Sep 27, 2022 10:40:04 #
maxlieberman
Loc: 19027
I remember that poster. I always wanted a flat top, but couldn't get my hair to stand up, even this all that wax.
Sep 27, 2022 11:18:11 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
UHH has a slew of old timers, like me. Have you ever had any of these modern hair styles in the 1950s?
Somebody back then didn't proofread very well - there's the Forward-combed Booggie and the Flattop Booqqie.
Sep 27, 2022 11:33:29 #
Sep 27, 2022 11:41:43 #
SuperflyTNT wrote:
The Hollywood is a poor excuse for a DA!
Yeah! I do remember the DA....short for "Duck's Ass." I never had one, but remember the "cool dudes" of the day had one.
Sep 27, 2022 12:58:44 #
maxlieberman wrote:
I remember that poster. I always wanted a flat top, but couldn't get my hair to stand up, even this all that wax.
Chapstick
Sep 27, 2022 14:10:46 #
Dad's crew cut - a crew cut with the shortest guide he had - he gave us one every Saturday night so we looked our best for Sunday church. It was so short you had a hard time pinching it with your fingers - but the boot camp haircut still took some off 
Sep 27, 2022 15:14:38 #
In the '50s I got my hair cut occasionally but I don't recall ever specifying a style.
Now, no problem. Not enough hair to consider styling it.
Now, no problem. Not enough hair to consider styling it.
Sep 28, 2022 03:13:10 #
Dad was a flattop. My brothers and I were too, at least until 8th grade. Who knew the Butch would be popular today?
Sep 28, 2022 07:31:33 #
Remember this poster at Lou’s barber shop in Joliet, I’ll. I had the Flattop hair cut for many years.
Sep 28, 2022 07:58:31 #
Yup. Had the flattop with wings. Used some kind of goop to keep the wings up.
Sep 28, 2022 08:25:51 #
Sep 28, 2022 09:48:52 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
UHH has a slew of old timers, like me. Have you ever had any of these modern hair styles in the 1950s?
Yes. It makes me glad I was a teen in the *late 1960s through the mid 1970s!*
Those are some of the most ridiculous men's hair styles I've seen. I think so ESPECIALLY because my parents made me get a butch/crew cut until 1967... I was teased mercilessly at school. A girl at the desk behind me ran her hair through it in class one morning and said, "EEEWWW, feels like the back of a theater seat!" I put my foot down that evening. There was a rather loud shouting match, but I won. NO guy wanted hair like that poster after about 1964. Beatle mania put an end to it. The girls in our schools enforced it.
Sep 28, 2022 10:00:48 #
Sep 28, 2022 10:49:29 #
My grandmother would send me to "Red, the Barber" on the corner to get crewcuts so that she could do "tick patrol" when I would come in from playing around in the fields and woods.
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