Is the comb-over becoming fashionable?

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― Robert Manne, Friday, 2 September 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't see why it couldn't or shouldn't. i think it's a bit sad that men chop it all off at the first sign of balding. people act like it's the only way you can go but the cue-ball look is "just" fashion after all. no one did it 15 years ago.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

That's because it's only been in the last fifteen years that a generation which grew up disgusted at the sight of a combover has realized "OMG, I'm balding now -- but I'll be damned if I look like THOSE assholes."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I comb over the pubes so it looks like Jimmy Durante.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I want a weave! I will have a weave!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, I think the comb-over is back. It has always been seen as laughable because it's so transparent, such a pathetically feeble way of hiding baldness. But actually I don't see why the cue-ball is any different, since it also is trying to hide the male-pattern look by chopping it all off. The difference with the new, hip comb-overs like the guy from Maximo Park, is that there is no pretence that they're really hiding anything, it's just another hairstyle.

― R_M, Friday, 2 September 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

true, Ned, but why did that only happen in the last 15 years? men have been coming-over for generations before then. i suppose i might be slightly appalled if the comb-over came back in a big way but at the moment i think it's good to see a few comb-overers challenging the cue ball hegemony.

xps

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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There’s no competition.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Mmmm...I want to run my fingers through your comb-over. Hot.

― jxnx, Friday, 2 September 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

My Japanese friend called'em barcode men. It's great fun when the wind blows it to the other side. Especially when it's in *one piece*.

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

If you hold your head just right in the mirror it looks like you still have a full head of hair.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck, you guys are on to me

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I've seen quite a few comb-overs in gay bars and clubs. Which means the trend will break through to the hetero world in about 18 months' time.

― R_M, Friday, 2 September 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe the Norwegian word for a combover is "hentesveis," (hente="collect"+sveis="hairstyle"), not to be confused with "hockeysveis"- hockey hair.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

200 CALORIES AND 12 GRAMS OF FAT PER DOGNUT.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

OOPS WRONG THREAD. HAHA.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Why the comb-o anyhow, and not perhaps the more radical brushed-forward mullet?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

A friend was telling me about a new vaginal fashion popular in S&M circles called the comb-over; girls grow their pubic hair long enough so that they can reach it into their vagina, so it looks like the hair is being eating by their vadge. Once it's been in there a while you can take it out and re-style it with the juices into spikes and shit.

― rio natsume, Friday, 2 September 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan Perry OTM

Combovers: Dud.

What lengths will our nation's hipster go to to look like total douchebags?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.fancymag.com/fashionnablecombover.html

― jz, Friday, 2 September 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 3 September 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

ya, um, would you twist that hair into about 8 spikes that appear to undulate?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 3 September 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

TEH HORROR.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 3 September 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, you're a funny one Trace! You'd think I had described something that comes from outer space or somethin'

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 3 September 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Dear Donald Trump, it's better to be bald than sport a comb-forward

This article is surely ridiculously late in the day for a so-called fashion section?

― Bob Six, Monday, 28 May 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

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