![]() (Which is what The Art of Vintage Manliness is all about: taking what you like the best in vintage manliness, and making it fit into your modern life.) High & Tight Clearly some of the pictures below are very modern twists on the vintage “short back and sides” style. This basic vintage cut is the same for most hair types super curly, curly, wavy, straight…they will obviously look different, but you’re still telling your barber the same details.Īlso, please note my use of the word “vintage” is speaking more about the general spirit of the hair cut. Where the variations mostly come in is how high, how tight, how long on top, and how dramatic the fade you want between the sides and top. ![]() However, one should know that there are still a lot of variables at play. Luckily, most styles of the 1930s to 50s have these basics in common: a short back and sides (also known as “high and tight”) and a longer top, especially near the front of the head. Thankfully, men’s vintage-ish haircuts are coming back into mainstream fashion - whether through the influence of Mad Men, or the indie fashion of people like Arcade Fire front man Win Butler, or European soccer/football stars, or Justin Timberlake- and so it should be easier for stylists and barbers to know what you’re talking about when you say you want a men’s vintage cut. The main reason was I didn’t know how to communicate exactly what I wanted, and during most of that time my stylists had hardly ever done a vintage men’s haircut. This took me quite a lot of trying to explain what I wanted and produced mostly mediocre results. I spent a great deal of my mid-teens to late 20s trying to get a good vintage 1930’s/40’s men’s haircut, first à la Swing Kids, and later à la the kind of haircut the swing kids had before they grew it out. This article will be updated as new tips & photos come in.
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