It’s 1984, I’m a freshman in high school, and we’d just moved to an NYC suburb from the sticks of Oregon; I don’t know nuthin’ about nuthin’ in terms of style. Totally oblivious. But I was also absolutely percolating with hormones, well into the final stages of puberty, and my childhood baby fat was working [...]

As posted in response to yesterday’s “Ultimate Hair Risk: White Boy Afro”, a Dethroner reader wrote in with the following quandry. We suspect that there may be many among you facing the same dilemma, so it merits its own post.
ML asks:

So, is there any hope for those of us white guys with [...]

Undeniably, one of the hardest hitting and unapologetic looks a caucasoid can rock is the white boy afro. It’s one of those all or nothing moves, seeking the big payoff in the respect of your fellow men and the adoration of women everywhere. Guys who win with this thing are viewed as hip beyond mortal [...]

If Star Trek: The Next Generation had any lasting cultural impact, it was in reminding us that a bald man could still be a sex object. Seriously. I recall sometime around the second or third season when it became clear that Jonathan “Riker” Frakes wasn’t going to be able to contain his expanding gut; after [...]

This submission came in last week, but we held on to it to keep the sender in suspense. Or maybe it’s just cos I was slackin’. Either way, read on, with images following the jump. Josh writes:
“Saw this week’s theme and thought I would throw my hat (or lack thereof in this case) into the [...]

If you haven’t seen this book around, you haven’t been in a bookstore for the past five years; it was ubiquitous. If you’ve seen it but never bothered to pick it up and flip through a few pages, you’ve done yourself an unspeakable disservice. If you did bother to pick it up, I’ll bet hard [...]

An increasingly popular alternative to the standard scissor cut you’ll find in most salons and barbershops is the razor cut. Like it sounds, it’s essentially a slashing approach, most often done with a single edged blade on a stick, though there are tools that fit the double edged blades the likes of which you see [...]

One of the reasons we’re talking about hairstyles is because I am a longtime amateur hairdresser. I was giving girls mohawks back in my freshman year of high school, and I haven’t quit messing with hair ever since, both on my own head and on those of my trusting if foolish friends. I’ve gotten very [...]

Chronic bathers among us and those fellows who keep particularly close-cropped hair may not know this, but the heavy product users sooner or later figure it out: your hair generally looks better, is easier to (re)do, and holds its style much better on the day following a washing. It’s kind of like a home made [...]

Born from emo devotees, the new short hair often includes a part down the side. That’s right—we’re back to using combs. About.com, from whom we’ve stolen these images that they in turn have stolen from someone else, tends to be a pretty fantastic place to get a basic overview of the broad strokes of modern [...]

I grew up in several small towns before moving to the suburbs of Kansas City right before my teens, so I’m neither charmed by nor resentful of them—they are what they are, with their own ups and downs. I am, however, amused by small town newspapers, which offer insight into a world too banal for [...]