Worst haircuts? (1 Viewer)

[Combat]

When I was in college we had these barbers on campus who were all about 80years old. They would slick your hair down in witch hazel and gap it up something awful. You would leave looking like Alfalfa from the Little Rascals or a survivor of the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The humiliating part is that you would have to walk across campus to get back to your dorm looking like a future serial killer.

 

[4th Hussar]

And you went back a 2nd time ?

 

[Alexdakar]

When I was twelve my mom took me to the salon and I got a perm. I came home and all my cousins and brothers laughed at me. I cried and my mom said that she would buy me that toy soldier jeep that I wanted. I told her "No, I want four of them!" I got them and went to the barber to fix my hair.

 

[Warrior]

"When I was in college we had these barbers on campus who were all about 80years old. They would slick your hair down in witch hazel and gap it up something awful. You would leave looking like Alfalfa from the Little Rascals or a survivor of the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The humiliating part is that you would have to walk across campus to get back to your dorm looking like a future serial killer."

Doug, thanks a million for the laugh, I really need it at this point as I just found out the MORONS from HMGS East are moving Fall In from Gettysburg to Lancaster in 2010.

Incredible.

 

[theBaron]

My dad took me to the barber, where I got a crew cut, until I was around 10 (1974). Boy, did I hate that, when I was a kid. By the time I was 10, one of my cousins had just become a hairdresser, so she would cut my hair, and that was the start of the unisex cut, until 1982 and college, where I started getting........crew cuts. Now I let it grow out a little, but in the summer, I'll still get buzzed.

BTW, I'd rather go to a barber, than a "hair stylist". First of all, men go to barbers, women go to stylists. And so, men pay five bucks, and women pay tens of dollars. At the barber's, you talk sports, or gardening (mine grew all kinds of vegetables), or hunting (this is PA, after all). At the hairdresser's, it's a hen party. But the barbers are slowly dying out. Mine pased away, it was too bad, he was good. He learned his trade in the Army, and opened a barber shop after he got out, and he ran that shop for something like 30 years. Here's to Merrill Clemmer and his Franconia Barber Shop, avid skier, gardener, grandfather, a heck of a barber, and a veteran, too!

 

[Peter Reuss]

It's sad that barbers are a dying breed. Where are the young ones??

Our local barber, good old Rod, retired earlier this year because of colon cancer. He graduated from barber school in 1946. 62 years later, he finally had to hang it up.

Talking to Rod was like having my finger on the pulse of the town. He knew everyone and everything.

After he retired I ended up at a 'unisex' place and asked for a flat top. They looked at me like I had 2 heads...

 

[theBaron]

Yep, when the biggest buck in the Commonwealth that year was brought down in my home county, I met the guy who bagged it and heard the story, right there at Merrill Clemmer's.

He used to give away combs every year at Christmas, too, with his name and number. I had one for every sport coat that I own.

And he used a straight razor for detail trimming, too, sharpened on a strop. He didn't do shaves anymore, though, I can't remember if it was because of liability, or because of diseases communicable through blood. But he would shave and taper at the back. I don't know what that means, and neither do the cosmetology school graduates I have to go to now. Don't get me wrong, they're all very nice, but it's just not the same. I know exactly what you mean, Peter!

It wasn't quite a Rockwell painting, going to the barber, but close enough that I can appreciate the old school barbershop.

Boy, do I sound like an old man!

Prost!
Brad

 

[Spitfrnd]

Interesting perspectives. I think my worst haircut was my first service cut. After that, I just kept pushing the envelope. Personally, I have no regrets to transistioning away from barbers to stylists. IMHO, men go where ever they like.

 

[Peter Reuss]

And he used a straight razor for detail trimming, too, sharpened on a strop. He didn't do shaves anymore, though, I can't remember if it was because of liability, or because of diseases communicable through blood. But he would shave and taper at the back.
Boy, do I sound like an old man!

Prost!
Brad

Ah, warm foam and a straight razor sharpened on a strap. Haven't had that in 5 years...since I went to a different old-timer back in Illinois.

 

[bromhead]

Post basic training while waiting to go on a short leave I was selected with about a dozen others as "needing a haircut" first,having enough sense at the time to never question a drill instructor I again had my head shaved for the second time in days,having my head inspected I was told again,with half the troops we were asking for problems by not having a proper haircut still ,I entered the valley again emerging with scrapes I almost expected to have to be polished. The only family member understanding and laughing was a former jarhead uncle.

 

[sammy719]

Some of my fellow football teamates back in high school (1985)decided we would all get crew cuts before our first game, well I went and got my crew cut on my lunch break, and the other players thought it looked so bad they all chickened out!!!!!! I was the only idiot of the bunch that got one, but all the cheerleaders thought it was cool ha!!! so I got the last laugh!!....Sammy

 

[gk5717]

Speaking of haircuts, I think the best opening scene in a movie was the one for Full Metal Jacket. With the recruits getting their haircut and the song "hello VietNam" playing.
Gary

 

[thebritfarmer]

It's sad that barbers are a dying breed. Where are the young ones??

Our local barber, good old Rod, retired earlier this year because of colon cancer. He graduated from barber school in 1946. 62 years later, he finally had to hang it up.

Talking to Rod was like having my finger on the pulse of the town. He knew everyone and everything.

After he retired I ended up at a 'unisex' place and asked for a flat top. They looked at me like I had 2 heads...

Nowadays guys are more into there looks than they were a few years ago, I doubt the local barber could give you a faux hawk or give you highlights etc.... and that is why more men are going to salons now.

Peter I believe the "new" term for your flat top is now called a caesar.

 

[Gideon]

I was a bowl head victim till the age of 8 when my stepdad would "style" my hair and wind up clipping an ear - every time.

Later on I had long hair and various buzz cuts.

For a few years before I left NYC, I used to go an old school Italian barber shop in Greenwich Village. Sometimes I would be turned away because of some infamous "local wise guys" getting their weekly straight-edge shave and trim. But, I would wait patiently and return. A good cut in NYC for 15 bucks. Rare.

Now, in Philadelphia, I go to Sulimays on Girard - in an old brownstone type building and it's great. A real guys place and kind of like a club type feel.

Always remember, your barber knows you best.

 

[1879fanatic]

Well,
I've got to say the best in the business was Mr. Sneed at 8th and I St., SE in DC across from the Marine Corps Barracks. $4 bucks. Sam's in Scranton was the same, and you could smoke in the chairD)
Now I've had a Wahl Pro for the last ten years or so with a tri-mirror medicine cabinet. Real High and Real Tight... Stylists have no clue what you're talking about. For me it's free, just have to clean up or the wife will come in, puke, carry on, scream and run out, leaving me with the kids. I've got it down to 5 minutes now.
Try it and you'll never go back to a barber or stylist, except before weddings.
Mike

 

[Lewey Gun Vick]

Having my banes cut evenly and my ears evenly before school pictures. But my brothers hair turned up worse, so it wasnt all that bad! I am more efficient these days and just do a number 1.


Vick