Were You A Long Haired Hippie?

I never had truley LONG hair as a teenager, but it was longer than most people thought appropriate. At the age of 17 I joined the Army where I stayed for the next 12 years, so no long hair there. All those years I kept telling myself that if I ever got out of the service, I would grow my hair down to my behind, but alas, it was not to happen. By the time I got out, my hair was making a strategic withdrawel from my head (otherwise known as a retreat).
Now I have no hair on the top of my head and so there is little point to growing it long in the back. <sob>

Guilty as charged also. In college it was the "in thing". Later in life as a member of a biker group it was a full beard and long hair, also an "in thing". Now, I'm where I want to be and its a great feeling with long hair, thigh-hi's, suspender belt and red baby-doll as I type to all of you. What an exhilirating feeling. Life is GOOD!!!!

"Were" a long-haired hippie?

Still AM a long-haired hippie. :)

While my hair was always long by some standard, even when I was a kid in the late 60s, I didn't really start growing it 'ponytail' long until the early 90s... and haven't cut it since.

Honestly, I think it is less about style and more about ease of maintenance. Except for the washing and drying time (basically FOREVER), I never have to do anything to, or even think about my hair. Just run my fingers through it, pull it into a ponytail and go!

My freak flag was flyin throughout the 60's. Nonconformity was middle name. It's what got me in all that trouble with the "authority" figures.

I had hair to the bottom of my ear lobes in the mid 70s after the service for a while. Always been in conservative fields of work so short hair was the norm for me and still is. As it's pretty well gone on top now, no hope for the future. If I had a full head of hair now, I'm afraid it'd be hard not to grow it long.

ChanDelle

Carla, many of the biggest freaks I ever knew were vets. I'm sorry you had to put upwith that name calling stuff back then, but honestly, most of us ol' hippies didn't really feel that way. You guys were our brothers and fathers and best friends. The minority of hyper-politico types made most of the noise. The rest of us ignored them for the most part. The long hair wasn't always on the head, it was in the spirit.

Peace, dudes & chicks!

deja

All those stereotypes that some may have of hippies? Well, that was me. Then I grew up.

I had long blonde hair to my waist, and often dressed like a male in tailored suits. We could get away with anything back then, almost. Of course, I was the first to defend my male friends who had long hair. There were a lot of conservative PHOBES back then, too. I suppose, in the natural scheme of things, they are "essential" ? perhaps to promote the full blossoming of people like ourselves. "Low key" is okay, but socially imposed "repressing and boring" are best avoided. I was also VERY fond of feminine clothing, and I did protest the war. When the soldiers came back, I was invited to a "Viet Nam Veterans Against The War" gathering. It's a lot like today. The fashions are very unusual. (but then, I am close to Las Vegas The variety show). And the current social climate is agitated, so we are clamoring for a way to offset the mundane agony of every day life. Celebrate the gift of having a body to decorate !

Yes!!!!

Nobody knew the real reason for my luxurious wavy waist length hair. Unusually, I have kept my long hair right through from the 60's although it now only grows shoulder length and I'm sporting a shiny monks pate.

Although what is left of my hair is no longer good for crossdressing I just can't bear to have it cut after 40+ years. I tie it back in a pony tail and tuck it under wigs when I dress.

Oh Gawd!, girls... I'm having flashbacks after all these years! If I still had my van (you know, the one with the Indian bedspread curtains) I'd drive to Berkely! Again! Far OUT!!!

deja

i was a long haired heavy metal guy(girl was the benefit) it was a great excuse to have my hair long enough to curl and style and it was great! got a perm once from my mom and then curled my hair and dressed up and went out( as she watched) she asked me as she was crying did i want to be a female and of all things i said no!! she told me i would have been a beautiful girl! ( of course i said i know thats right!just kidding) but i did look good and didnt have to wear base, i was thin and did not have any masculine features that were apparent! many who saw pictures of that time( family portraits) remarked that my parents had three beautiful daughters( my two sisters were and are very pretty the youngest was a beauty queen type) actually one guy ( looking at our house to buy) said this youngest girl is gonna be the reason for you having to buy a shotgun! to my dad! i was actually there and heard it i guess he thought i was a girl in person, kind of made my perception of things a little awkward, btw my dad just agreed with him and looked into the next room at me (sitting at a table) to see my reaction, yeah i was red faced but in my mind i was happy!, so, yeah being a "hippie" had its perks for suzanne!!

Had shoulder length hair from 16 until 19 years, when balding made it look ridiculous.

Had a lovely body wave which turned my mousy hair golden.

My Social Worker asked me some funny questions. I realized she thought maybe I was effeminate or gay.

I realize now that I just loved looking that way, and didn't think for a minute that I looked like a girl. In the mid 70's, the rocker look made us all look like girls, didn't it ?

I only have a few pictures of that long hair.....now I wanna go find them !

:rose: Roberta :rose:

Yes, I let my hair grow long when I went off to college, and I was sometimes mistaken for a girl (not often enough!).

It wasn't a repressed desire, I was pretty conscious of having a girl's hair. Girls seemed to enjoy stroking it an saying that I looked pretty. I loved it!!

:happy: chrissie

You can add me to the group...My hair was below my shoulders from HS into my twenties. It was fairly straight then got really curly toward the end. My sisters hated it because theirs stayed perfectly straight with no curl.

I was a hippy also...tie dye, work shirts, sandals....wait a min....I'm looking in the mirror...except for the tie-dye. In fact my sister and I are a year apart and grew at about the same rate. She had a pair of tie dye jeans that I would wear...she had a couple of minis that I liked also...but only in the house.

My hair gets long still before I cut it, but not below my shoulders...I love it when I go for walks and feel the wind blowing it. I will probably try to let it grow below my shoulders again at some point...

I used to get the same comments about my hair..."girly", "faggot", etc., simple minds make simple comments (I've made my share). Too bad for them.

Katie

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amber 07 Wrote:
Later in life as a member of a biker group it was a full beard and long hair

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Hey Bro!! :thumbsup:
Or is it
Hey sister now? I'm so confused!! :confused:

I was a teenager through the late sixties and early seventies and had grown my hair to shoulder length . It's all kind of funny now thinking back even before long hair was becoming the style I so hated to have to get my haircut. Now you have me really thinking about the "timeline" of my 1st intrest in secretly playing in my Moms closet and the correlation of the hate associated with getting my haircut. I'm guessing that my masculinity was beginning to wane at that time. I remember fighting tooth and nail to be able to let my hair grow, having to tuck it all behind my ears when I was around the house until one day I think everybody had long long hair so mine being at shoulder length was actually short for that time, but I was satisfied. BTW it is still kind of long today and so far plenty of it . THANK GOD.

Great thread !

Hair only went to bottom of my neck but I had a beard all through college. My mother refused to pay for my senior yearbook 8x10 potrait because she said I looked like "abie the ragpicker". For those younens that never lived through the sixties, especially the last half '65-'70 it was a magical, wonderful time unlike any other. There will never ever be another age ( of Aquarius) or generation of young people like us again. To go through the multitudes of what we experinced in those tumultuos mind boggling years. We KNEW we were living through histoiry as it happened. Fond memories to think back on, but sadly gone forever.

Wow, you guys! I really didn't mean this thread to turn into a tranny Woodstock nostalgia fest, but I'm kinda glad it did. It's good to think back to times when we thought everything was gonna be okay because the 'love generation' was gonna be in control any year now. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Many good things came out of that era, that still resonate today. The battles against the War in Vietnam, the beginning of the fight against racism, tackling poverty and illiteracy with new methods. Many things were left undone, too, no doubt. But you're right Megan, it was, overall, a glorious time.

I noticed that very few here actually said anything about their feelings concerning their CDing. For most of us the memories we keep from the past are usually the pleasant ones. We always tend to forget or block out those moments of anguish and pain, don't we? That's a good thing, I think.

I hope we've had some of the young 'uns in here reading, even if they don't feel they can contribute to this thread. Many are our children's age. Some could even be our grandchildren! Scary, huh?

Nice to see the family all together, though.

respect & love

deja

While my hair was long and being mistaken for a girl, my draft board was processing my papers. I told myself that if they called me up I would walk in there with a dress and high-heels on and say, "I'm planing on having my equipment changed, do you still what me?"

It was such a sick time, my friends were going off to Nam and not coming back, I was fighting with my father, I wanted to be a girl and my girl friends were burning their bras. Just a very confusing time in my life.

Yep, I was a long haired hippy in school, it all fell out since then!

Yes I did and it had nothing to do with dressing as that time. how it does :hugs:
Angie

i have had long hair sence seventh grade
i think it go hand in hand with CD

I have had my hair at or below shouder lenght except for service
time since high school days. Was in the biker scene then and still
ride now. The harley is sitting in barn now just waiting for some
warmer weather. miss the 50.6ties now
Diana R.

Looks like I'm in the minority again.

Was a straight-laced conservative anti-hippy
in those days. Now I just wish I could grow
hair...:tongueout

Funny thing...I was in Circut City and looking for the Nintendo DS and an Associate came up to me and asked "Hello MA'AM can i help you" so i replyed in a deeper tone then usual WHere are your nintendo ds...he was really suprised, oh being called a girl:daydreaming:! it made my day so much better, that day was about one of the happiest days of my life, cause i also bought a nintendo Wii, and a whole bunch of other happy things happened too!