| The Buzz | The Engineer | |
|---|---|---|
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| Popular with military and ex-military types. | A.k.a. "The Republican". The most popular men's do. A straight, standard guy cut. | |
| The Mini-Mullet | Whole-Lotta-Hair | |
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| Favored by good ol' boys (and often worn in conjunction with The Southerner). Was quite popular two decades ago, but its habitat has dwindled in recent years. | Bountiful and architectural, it requires an extensive use of hairspray. Mostly worn by females, but also found on one male coworker (who also has a Neat 'N Tidy and wears double-breasted suits with floral ties). |
Once again, this is merely a work in progress, and we have only scratched the surface. The world of hair is a marvelous and mysterious place. We can never hope to fully understand it in all of its magnificence, but we must start somewhere.
Update:
Billy has rightly pointed out that The Buzz, while popular with the military set, is also big with the gay crowd. There are a lot more examples of the former than the latter at my current location, but the one obviously gay coworker does, in fact, sport a flat-top fade buzz cut.
Billy adds that his own barber, who is an old-school type and is quite expert at the flat-top buzz, does big business with both police officers and gay men. That's a curious market niche to be in.
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