Figure 1.--School portraits in the 1970s show many boys with long hair. Most boys wore their hair down to or over the ears like this American boy. ome other boys had shoulder-length hair. |
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Hair styles at the beginning of the 1960s were quite short. They began to grow longer in the mid-1960s. Cuts in Europe were not as short as they were in America. But boys on both sides of the Atlantic participated in the movement toward long hair. It was in the 1970s, however, that really long styles for boys appeared. Long hair reached the peak of popularity in the 1970s. Most boys wore their hair over their ears and many wore shoulder style hair. An English reader, Jonathan, remember the long hair that he and his brothers wore during the 1970s. We have developed some information for the United States. The long cuts scandalized adults with traditional values. Younger boys tended to have moderate cuts because parents were still in control. For teen agers it was a different matter.
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