Haircut makes the difference!

[swisslet]

I went for a haircut this afternoon. It's only been a month since I last went, but I'm pretty thin on top these days, and my remaining hair is pretty thick, so I like to keep it short to stop if padding out. As usual, I went for the clipper option.....down to grade 1.5.

...and when I got home, I found that my fedora was noticeably bigger on my head. Certainly big enough that I needed to slip some foam under the sweat.

I know it's not rocket science that this should be the case, but I'm quietly amused this evening that even my pitiful hair made such a difference.

You gotta love hats, eh?

How the hell do you people with proper heads of hair manage?

ST

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Hair Guage

Yup, that's when I know it's time to go for a trim; when the old hat starts fitting just a little too snug. Yet another practical reason to use as an excuse when satisfying the compulsive hat collector within.

 

[frijoli]

I have very thick hair. When I first started looking at hats, I measured myself at a heavy 7 3/8. I was on a diet and got a haircut while shopping for a couple hats and now I can get a 7 1/8 on my head snuggly and comfortable with a 7 1/4. I have 4 oversize hats now!

see my sig.

Clay

 

[DrSpeed]

Being bald has advantages

Having very little hair left, I just shave my head, so no problems there.
My main hat excuse is that, without hair, I need protection from the elements .

 

[bolthead]

Having very little hair left, I just shave my head, so no problems there.
My main hat excuse is that, without hair, I need protection from the elements .

I hear that......

 

[swisslet]

Well, I went for a good long walk in my hat today, and sweated a whole load into the leather sweatband, and I can already feel the hat fitting a lot better on my head - haircut or no haircut!

DrSpeed - I'm very much in your club, brother....

ST

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

Almost cut my hair, just happened the other day... let's say I'm a "longhair". Alas, grey. But long. I have also, at times, had a skinhead type haircut and, yes, it makes a big difference for the hat which, in that case, is too big.
My hair is thin and un-curled, and usually I make a pony tail (for work, as well as comfort: no loose flying hair tickling my face, a real nuisance that is). My hats fit well, with the pony tail. When I don't do the pony tail, the hat has a tendency to "slide" upon the layers of hair, and doesn't stay put snugly at all.
I guess hats go best with short hair.

 

[Roadrunner]

Well I'm in the Air Force Reserve, so my hair never gets too long. I have noticed that my hat gets loose when I get the sides trimmed, but not so much that it no longer fits.

 

[Stan]

It's a problem that isn't a problem

Hi,

Oh, dear. How to say this? I guess just blurt it out!

I have too much hair! :eusa_doh:

I really hate to say that, since so many others have the opposite problem....

I wear it in a crewcut 3/4 of the year. Otherwise, it gets to be too hot most of the time. However, with it cut so short, the sun is bad, so that's the main reason I wear a hat.

In the winter, I let it grow into what is known as a 'regular'. I still get it trimmed quite often, though.

Anyway, the point here is that I get to mess with padding in the sweatband on a regular basis. I have to put some in when I wear the crewcut and take it out when I wear the regular.

Since I'm now growing my collection, I'm beginning to split my sizes - 7 1/8 for the regular and 7 1/16 for the crewcut. I get the 7 1/16 by stretching a size 7 a bit.

Notice that this means I need *two* sets of hats. That's a great explanation to have handy for the wife when yet another box shows up!

So, you see that it's a problem, but not really a problem!

Later!

Stan

 

[GI Joe]

Since I'm now growing my collection, I'm beginning to split my sizes - 7 1/8 for the regular and 7 1/16 for the crewcut. I get the 7 1/16 by stretching a size 7 a bit.

Notice that this means I need *two* sets of hats. That's a great explanation to have handy for the wife when yet another box shows up!

Stan,

As we say in the software racket, "That's not a bug, it's a feature!'

 

[VetPsychWars]

Finally starting to get thin enough, especially with my fine hair, that it was clear there were empty spots with the previous hair style.

No point in fighting nature, got a buzz cut like I used to as a kid in the summer (every boy did back then).

Funny how hats I thought were too tight fit pretty good now!

Gotta love it.

 

[Zombie_61]

...No point in fighting nature, got a buzz cut like I used to as a kid in the summer (every boy did back then)...

I can honestly say I've never had a buzz cut in my life. Not yet, anyway.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Butch cut/"Mecki" is good for Philishave and bad for the barber.

 

[GHT]

I can honestly say I've never had a buzz cut in my life. Not yet, anyway.

Me neither, although when, aged 17, my below shoulder length tresses were cut off and my hair resembled a more military looking short back and sides, I did have a Sampson moment.

 

[Rmccamey]

On that note, does anyone wear a flat top anymore?

 

[1961MJS]

Hi
Never had a flat top when they were in, I've always had a part until college and my barber said to pull it straight back. At Damn near 60, I have a comb over. My hair started to part again, then the hair under it started to leave..... I always thought you were supposed to comb it over to hide the bald spots, not comb it over to prepare for them.
Later

 

[Frunobulax]

On that note, does anyone wear a flat top anymore?

Not since Drew Carey let his hair grow out.

I usually had a "Burr," what is commonly called a buzz-cut. I had a flat-top at least once, as I wanted to look like Dad (and Pete Rose). I remember the barber at one time trying to talk me into a "Pineapple," Which was a burr, but he'd leave a shock of hair longer at the front.

 

[GHT]

In the fifties the young men in the UK, all wanted to have the look that the actor, Tony Curtis sported: So popular did it become that barbers started calling the style: "Tony Curtis." Not for me though, I thought that quiff at the front resembled a tricorn hat from the seventeenth century.

 

[Trenchfriend]

View attachment 286251

In the fifties the young men in the UK, all wanted to have the look that the actor, Tony Curtis sported: So popular did it become that barbers started calling the style: "Tony Curtis." Not for me though, I thought that quiff at the front resembled a tricorn hat from the seventeenth century.

I think, he looked great in the private matter.

 

[hatsRme]

View attachment 286251

In the fifties the young men in the UK, all wanted to have the look that the actor, Tony Curtis sported: So popular did it become that barbers started calling the style: "Tony Curtis." Not for me though, I thought that quiff at the front resembled a tricorn hat from the seventeenth century.

Bernie Schwartz was a talented man of style. But when he changed his name to Tony Curtis, everything fell into place for him.