i prefer 0 lead time for haircuts. from my experience this is mostly achievable if you go to a salon or an old school barber that does not use any clippers. the latter is much harder to find nowadays so i find myself opting for salon cuts. i get a sb&s every three weeks if my schedule permits. a few things that have worked for me to achieve a classic cut with a side part is that i never have my hair thinned and i never allow clippers to be used.

Interesting.
When did clippers come in?

I've had all sorts of haircuts in my time and I like a clipper cut at the sides & back, if not also on top. It gives a look which I doubt scissors could produce - Who could get the layering that fine with scissors?

ito, how does your SBS work out without thinning/layering & being a purely scissor cut?
Makes me think a little of a 'Wedge' cut (a fine soulful option, btw).

My Grandfather bobbed my Grandmother's hair with hand (ie, not electric) clippers in 1927, giving her a 'shingle', as she called it, up the back of her neck. He borrowed the clippers from his barber. My Great Grandmother had a fit.

Even with a scissor cut I find that the hair still needs to 'settle'. You?

j.

Last edited by AQG (2007-08-26 18:34:02)

I think we all got a  public school lack-of-education.
The English "Grammar" schools were far better places.

The worst thing about Latin is having to pretend that learning it wasn't a colossal waste of time unless you intended to go into the Law, Medicine or The Church. I've always found the smattering of it I picked up entirely useless apart from really trivial applications like reading the inscriptions on war memorials. Even more useless was memorising the Periodic Table...

I'd far rather they'd taught me better French or how to smoke & drink at the same time whilst dancing...

What I meant was, for years my sideburns were this length:

http://haircutsformen.org/buzz/graphics/termgraphics/business.jpg


Now, they are more like those of Molly Ringwald's romantic interest Michael Schoffling in the 80s brat pack film Sixteen Candles:

http://www.mariegryphon.com/archives/sixteen29.jpg


I figure so long as I keep them narrow like Schoffling's and not past the ear lobe, it's a pretty good look.

Last edited by Coolidge (2007-08-27 14:23:45)