LOL....mine falls out no matter how long it is!Originally Posted by Pythos
Fact is, throughout history, men have worn long hair. And then, many (not all) cut it shorter when it began to fall out. It's the curse of male-hood. Same sort of thing with clothing. Men used to be clothes-horses. Take a look at any historical figures before the 19th century. Men wore elaborate lace-trimmed blouses under velvet waistcoats, ornate overcoats with fancy shoes, and perfumes (to cover the smell from not bathing a whole lot).
We can thank a man by the name of John Stuart Mill for the agonizing and depressing lack of variety in our modern men's fashions today. He was the purveyor of Utilitarianism, a doctrine of stark recititude and bland conformity, lacking variety in fashions in favor of the black coat and tie. If it served no more function than to clothe oneself, it was considered frivolous. He was a philosopher and parliamentary member, considered a great thinker in his time, but seemed to have little time or patience for pleasures in his life. He was oxymoronic in that he was quite liberal in his thinking, yet made utilitarianism his main theme in his life, quantifying his pleasures on a scale of moral value. So he cared little for individual statements in his clothing choices, and largely influenced the growing industrial proletariat of pre-Victorian England.
Men, as always in history, were soon emulating the successful people in their society, and began wearing black suits and ties rather than the colorful and vastly more individual styles that had dominated the centuries prior to then. We still suffer from his influence even today.
