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Subject: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: 90s Guy on 03/27/15 at 4:07 pm
Fall 1989:
http://s30.postimg.org/maiqlviu9/ryanspics75_3.jpg
My father has (in the calendar behind him) a very in 80's look--a thick mustache and a mullet-ish hair. This look was very common toward the end of the '80s; long enough to not look short, but not quite a mullet yet. By this point, he had shaven his mustache to suit my mother.
1990:
My father began to grow his hair, with a very Full House-esque mullet by November 1990, pretty popular image then.
http://s22.postimg.org/tji7hby41/November_1990_4.jpg
June 1991:
http://s21.postimg.org/8hsdk9ph3/image.jpg
By this point, my father had a very Full House mullet
1992:
http://s13.postimg.org/73gt3t5mv/Untitled_39.jpg
December 9th 1993:
http://s3.postimg.org/3tzy51wpv/November_and_December_1993.jpg
By December 1993, my father's hair was no longer a mullet; it was long hair with simply slightly shorter bangs.
December 30th 1993:
http://s13.postimg.org/r04ctsuyv/image.jpg
My father suddenly decided to cut his hair much shorter to ring in 1994, adopting a mid '90s version of "short hair" which today would be considered slightly long.
1994:
http://s10.postimg.org/b3s8301nd/July_1994_39.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/aes1pbx8p/10_02_14_16_11_03.jpg
By this point, my father had abandoned a mullet and had taken on a very grunge inspired long haired look
However, by '95, due to work, the hair was cut to a mullet again and was longer then ever, and more subdued colors in clothes had set in
http://s9.postimg.org/jb8kjo6q7/Untitled_481.jpg
Fall 1995-Summer 1996:
Around late 1995 and into 1996, he had shifted the mullet to a bob. The first picture was taken in the late summer of 1995, the second in June 1996
http://s18.postimg.org/p1xlkql8p/Untitled_13.jpg
http://s15.postimg.org/mqp5p6uvf/10_02_04_03_43_10.jpg
September 1996:
Sometime around early September 1996, he cut his hair to a very corporate look, radically altering the style:
http://s23.postimg.org/vsvt1huyj/September_1996_6.jpg
June 11th 1997:
http://s17.postimg.org/4gyg3nyfz/June_1997_1.jpg
http://s21.postimg.org/fk4jv2e5z/early_1997_44.jpg
By early June 1997, he had let his hair grow again, but this time to a very youthful, medium length shaggy look rather than a mullet or even truly long hair
Summer 1997-December 1997:
http://s12.postimg.org/yfta5wizh/July_1997_3.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/mxrivsh6x/10_02_14_22_31_05.jpg
By the end of June '97 however, the hair had been cut again, becoming even more proper, more corporate, with short bangs, though.
1998:
http://s1.postimg.org/y0f3isxjz/October_1998_1.jpg
http://s17.postimg.org/ng1sfk84f/10_02_14_22_40_35.jpg
In '98, to reflect the ever more conservative times, his hair was cropped very short, with no bangs, and he traded his very Hippie, very mid '90s eyeglasses in for a pair of much more mature, conservative frames
1999:
http://s24.postimg.org/ay92ydf3p/April_1999_1.jpg
http://www.thesalesside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/lumbergh_office_space_lg.jpg
He had grown his hair slightly to take on the very conservative "Office Space" look of the same year, but by year's end (pic taken 12-31-199), his hair was short as could be.
http://s28.postimg.org/e3vktswr1/December_1999_2.jpg
Thus ends a decade long journey.
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: Arrowstone on 03/27/15 at 5:09 pm
My dad had your dad's '97 hair throughout the 90s, but it grew balder every year. And he had a thin moustache the whole decade.
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: Howard on 03/28/15 at 7:04 am
Those were very nice pictures of your Father throughout the years. :)
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: 90s Guy on 03/29/15 at 2:44 pm
Would you say the range in the hairstyles reflect what was popular throughout the '90s?
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: MarkMc1990 on 03/29/15 at 2:53 pm
I don't think long hair was the dominant trend among men tbh. Sure a lot of guys had it, but I think men's hairstyles in the '90s tended to be much shorter than that. Especially in the second half of the decade.
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: ArcticFox on 04/01/15 at 9:45 am
Nice pictures man but I don't think your dad is the best source as to determine the hairstyle trends of that year. If you had cousins who were in high school and college back then, you could post them here too.
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: 90s Guy on 04/01/15 at 10:07 am
I don't have year by year shots of them sadly.
I figured he was a guy between the ages of 36 and 45 between 1990 and 1999 and thus a good pick, and the only member of my family with consistent year by by year shots.
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: GH1996 on 04/02/15 at 8:06 pm
A lot of my cousins were in their teens in the mid-late 90's.
They usually had something similar to a bowl cut or spiked up, with the girls it was straightens hair with bangs. My dad had that office space/chandler bing season 1 style of hair throughout the 90's
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: ArcticFox on 04/02/15 at 11:48 pm
A lot of my cousins were in their teens in the mid-late 90's.
They usually had something similar to a bowl cut or spiked up, with the girls it was straightens hair with bangs. My dad had that office space/chandler bing season 1 style of hair throughout the 90's
Cool. Pics please?
Subject: Re: A history of '90s hair (using my father)
Written By: GH1996 on 04/03/15 at 3:13 pm
Cool. Pics please?
I'll take a look or them, most of the men in my family today still have the same hairstyle they did 20-40 years ago
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