How to Give a Flat Top Haircut
The flat top is a short hairstyle that became very popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is still very popular among men who need to keep their hair short, such as those in the military. While not seen as often today as in the past, it is still important for barbers and individuals to know how to give a flat top haircut.
In order to give a flat top hair cut, one must first cut the hair on the sides and back of the head very short, no more than a quarter inch in length. The next step is to start at the top of the head and work outward. The hair at the very top of the head will be cut to about a quarter inch in length, like the sides and back. This is done with a comb and scissors.
As one works out from the top of the head, the hair will be left in increasing lengths, though still short enough to stand straight up. None of the hair should be left at a length over a half inch. When the haircut is completed, the top of the head should have the appearance of a flat surface.
One important key to cutting a flat top properly is the person receiving the hair cut must not move the head. If he does, a bad cut can occur that spoils the effect and forces the hair to be styled differently, probably in a true buzz cut. Many people use a straight edge, such as a ruler, to check the way the hair stands and verify that it ends in a flat surface on top of the head.
The flat top is a haircut that requires little effort in the area of grooming to prepare for the day. Basically no products are needed to style the hair as it tends to stand up on its own when cut this short. It is, however, considered a high maintenance hair style because the hair must be trimmed at least every two weeks in order to keep it short enough to stand up and form the flat tabletop surface.
This entry was posted on Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
As Short as it Gets- the Shaved Landing Strip
Just yesterday, when I was getting my FT tightened up for the week, I told my RB (regular barber) when he started to cut the top, "Cut it as short as you can up through here," pointing with my finger to the "landing strip area" at very top of my head. Rubbing those hairs, I said, "Get it bald right there."
My RB complied as best he could with his clippers, and at the end of the cut, he asked me if it was short enough. The cut did look great, and I left it at that. My RB is happy to whip out the lather and razor for a back-and-sides shave, but I've never seen him go for shaving the "strip" - perhaps someday I'll ask him and see if he would try it.
I've gotten a lot of flattops over the years from a lot of barbers all over the country. I've had only two who would actually use a razor and lather to shave the landing strip. One was at the Beachcomber Barbershop in Oceanside, CA, (that barber no longer works at that shop - I wish I knew where he went, I think his name was Frank) and the other was at U.S. Cavalry near Fort Campbell, on the TN/KY border.
Both of these barbers shaved my landing strip without me asking specifically for that - it was part of their service interpretation when I asked for a "flattop as short as you can cut it." Man, that was my favorite part of the cut - feeling the barber lather up the entire back and sides of my head with warm cream, plus the very center of the top. It's truly as close as you can get to a shaved bald head with some real barber cutting artistry left on the noggin. When I walked out of those shops, I was 100% convinced that those barbers had truly given me the shortest possible FT that any barber could possibly cut.
Let me step back a second for anyone who may be confused about the use of the term "landing strip" here. Commonly, the term refers to a shaved style of women's pubic hair. However, it also has a different meaning with men's flattop haircuts. To me, other than the horizontal flat plane of the haircut, there is nothing that more distinguishes a flattop cut than the landing strip. When I'm walking around in public and see a guy who I think might have a FT - but I'm not sure if it might actually be a high-and-tight, butch cut, crewcut, etc. - I look for the dude to tip his head so I can see his landing strip. If it's the shortest at the very top, I know he's got a flat.
This is really what we call a "horseshoe flattop" (my personal favorite type of FT) - meaning that, if you were to look at the haircut from above (or on a tilted down head), you'd see nothing more than a horseshoe-shaped ring of hair on the man's head with the rest being either shaved bald or a few days growth of stubble.
When I'm wearing a flattop, it's almost always a horseshoe, and I'll write about that in another post. But amazingly, the U.S. Marine Corps has explcitly banned a shaved landing strip. Sadly, this has been misinterpreted as a ban on all short flattops (more on that later).
Texan gets FT every week for 30 years
Friday, July 31, 1998
Surviving wacky hair trends, barber shop celebrates 50 years
By NORA GARZA / The Monitor
PHARR, Texas -- Carlos Vargas walked out of Serda's Barber Shop with a fresh flat top.
"No one else puts up with my type of haircut," said Vargas, 36, as he ran a hand through his thick, shiny black hair on a recent Saturday.
Vargas has been going to the small white frame building in Pharr each week for the past 30 years. He likes his hair cropped short on top and shaved at the sides.
He is in good hands at Serda's. Its founder, Gabriel Serda, was known as the "Flat Top King" in the late '40s. He learned the technique by trimming a friend's crew cut. Pleased with the results, his friend gave up his weekly trips to Brownsville and let Serda groom his head.
With his quiet nature and easy smile, Serda, 78, has been winning over customers for nearly five decades.
His 14-by-22-foot shop on 132 E. Bell has changed little since it was built in 1948 on a foundation of old-fashioned virtues of family, mutual respect and hard work. Since then, the business and the business owner have become beloved Valley institutions.
On Sunday, family and friends will honor Serda and his wife, Coleta, with a reception celebrating the shop's 50th anniversary. Among invited dignitaries invited to pay tribute to the Serdas are U.S. Rep. Rubn Hinojosa, state Sen. Eddie Lucio and Judge Ruben Ramos.
During the festivities, 11-month-old Brendan Michael Palacios will get his first haircut, becoming a fifth-generation Serda's customer. Brendan's grandfather, Oscar Palacios, lived in the neighborhood. Now a San Juan attorney, Palacios still comes to the shop for a $6 haircut.
Palacios used to pick cotton with Serda's children.
"I always felt comfortable with them," Palacios said. "You have to understand, we're old families here. My mother was born in the house she lives in now. I was, too."
Gabriel Serda, 78, knows the neighborhood and its people well. He was born four blocks from the site of his future barber shop. Serda and a friend, Joaquin Barrera, son of a barber, used each other to practice cutting hair. At 16, Serda got good enough with his father's old hand clippers to set up shop under an orange tree and charge 5 cents a head during the Depression.
The enterprise planted the seed that perhaps he could do something other than seasonal migrant work for a living.
Later, Serda joined the Civilian Conservation Camp and during World War II was drafted into the Army. In 1942, he was captured by the Germans in North Africa and spent 26 months in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany. He was selected to be one of the barbers for the camp.
After the war, he attended barber school under the G.I. Bill and got his barbering license. He and Coleta married in 1946 and settled in San Antonio. They moved to Pharr two years later, building the barber shop across the street from their first home.
In the beginning, Coleta Serda helped with the business by washing the towels. She stayed home to raise their children -- Angel of McAllen, Javier of Pharr, Gabriel Jr. of San Antonio, Esperanza Garcia of Pharr and Patricia Garcia of McAllen.
"It seems to me if you work, you have more problems," Coleta Serda said. "You don't know where your kids are."
The Serda children often could be found at the barber shop, usually working. The family laughs at the story of Gabriel Serda chasing his sons through Bell Street waving a strop, or leather band for sharpening razors. But they got away with "no mas una nalgada (a spanking)," Javier Serda said.
Javier and Gabriel Jr. eventually became barbers. While Javier, 50, has been in the family business for 30 years, Gabriel Jr. left for a teaching career.
Wearing a starched blue smock, Gabriel Serda is particularly proud of his immaculate shop, where bright orange and lime painted cabinets hold supplies. The shop is decorated with antiques. On the walls are pictures of customers, and a map of the United States dotted with colorful push pins to mark the home towns of his customers.
The shop is homey, usually filled with a steady stream of customers and genial conservation, and very often, live music. When the Winter Texans are in town, the shop becomes a mini recreation center. Javier Serda keeps a guitar handy for jam sessions to accompany a visiting accordionist or fiddle player.
The shop survived the '60s hippie era and the '80s high-styling trend. Isreal Rebollar, 41, was one of the long-haired teens who took the roundabout route to school to avoid Serda's admonitions. "One of these days," Serda would tell him, "I'll grab you guys."
"We wore our hair long," Rebollar said recently, as he waited his turn at the shop. With the exception of his hippie days, he has been coming to Serda's since he was a boy.
Serda's specializes in the kind of services older men prefer. They shave around the ears and the back of the neck, and give facial massages. Gabriel Serda also makes house calls to disabled customers.
Angel Serda marvels that his father became a successful businessman, despite discrimination directed toward Mexican-Americans by both Anglos and wealthy Mexican-Americans. With only a sixth-grade education, Serda built his own business and owns property.
Angel Serda called his parents his idols.
"They've instilled the work ethic, and very strong and sound moral values," Angel Serda said. "They're the wind beneath our wings, they really are."
They set the example for family togetherness, taking care of the elderly, the importance of education and living within their means, Angel Serda said.
"God has given me so much, more than I deserve," Coleta Serda said. "My children are always there when I need them. They spoil us a little more than I deserve."
The Serdas met in the San Antonio zoo, by the monkey exhibit.
"It's been a nice marriage," Coleta Serda said. "It's been a long time."
Garbriel Serda has cut his work week to three days, though he works full time when his son is on vacation. But he still shows up each Sunday to clean the shop. He cannot even begin to estimate how many customers have filed through his door.
"Whew, I'd go crazy if I tried to count heads," he said.
But he knows for certain that becoming a barber was divine destiny.
"That's what God wanted me to do," Serda said. "To be good, you have to like what you're doing. I like to cut hair and talk to people."
It was in the Army that he learned how to talk to others, for the first time seeing that people of different races and ethnic backgrounds were treated with equal respect.
He took with him the lesson that "I'm the only one keeping myself down."
He developed tolerance for his customers, who represent all walks of life, from professionals and blue collar workers to field hands and clergymen. They come from all corners of the United States, as well as other parts of the globe.
"I hear different ways people think," Gabriel Serda said. "I'm going to let people live the way they want. I respect the opinion of every individual.
"If you want to live a good life," he said, "mind your own business."
That he has lasted this long in the business impresses even Gabriel Serda.
"When I worked in San Antonio, the barber told me he had worked there for 30 years. I thought that was too long," he said.
His longevity may be explained by his philosophy on how to treat customers.
"You have to be nice to them," Gabriel Serda said. "They're the ones who put the bread and butter on the table. Every man who sits in this chair is my boss."
Exercise and staying away from food that disagrees with him keeps him healthy, he said. He gets up at 5:30 every morning and walks one to one and half miles, and does push-ups.
"Thanks to God I lived this long," Gabriel Serda said. "The people have treated me right. I have no complaints."
He prefers working to traditional retirement hobbies like golfing and fishing.
"I'm not ready to retire," he said. "In the first place, I'm not sick. You have to keep moving or you go down. But, 78, that's getting pretty close to old-timer."
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The public is invited to attend the event, set for 4-8 p.m. A special ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m., including a special presentation by the Pharr Chamber of Commerce.
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Distributed by The Associated Press
The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut#
The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut#
The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut
By Paul Edmondson
The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut76
rate or flag this pageBy Paul Edmondson
Best Flattop of All-Time
Who had the better flattop
Jack Nicholas in a Few Good Men
Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
Kid from Kid N Play
Chris Mullin from the Golden State Warriors
Grace Jones from View to a Kill
Flattop (Flat-top) Crewcuts
If you aren't familiar with flattops or flat-top haircuts, they are cut very short on the sides with an oh, so slight taper until you get to the top of the head. Then the perfect flattop is about 3/4 of an inch long in the front, but may be a 1/8 of an inch long at the pinnacle of your scalp depending on the shape of your head. The skilled barber will make it perfectly flat with a landing strip that comes down the middle and fades into the front hairline. The landing strip is the hair on the top that is cut shortest and runs from the front to the back. The whiteness of the scalp has less of a shaddow from the longer hair on the sides and looks like a perfect place to land a toy plane.
Don't confuse flattops with a punk style cut (http://hubpages.com/hub/All-About-Punk-Hair-Styles). These are pure clean cuts. Although, nothing screams March Maddness like a freshly cut flattop. A flatop is a very special haircut that few barbars have mastered. In fact, I've only found one. For $7 in San Luis Obispo you can get the world's greatest flattop at Ray's Barbershop. I've been going to Ray and his daughter Page since I was a little kid. He's worth the trip to San Luis Obispo alone.
The flattop became popular in the 1950s and remains popular with the Marines and midwestern basketball players. We all saw hoosiers and I think a perfect flattop is a prerequisite to a smooth as butter jumper.
The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut
By Paul Edmondson
The Art of the Flattop (Flat Top) Haircut76
rate or flag this pageBy Paul Edmondson
Best Flattop of All-Time
Who had the better flattop
Jack Nicholas in a Few Good Men
Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
Kid from Kid N Play
Chris Mullin from the Golden State Warriors
Grace Jones from View to a Kill
Flattop (Flat-top) Crewcuts
If you aren't familiar with flattops or flat-top haircuts, they are cut very short on the sides with an oh, so slight taper until you get to the top of the head. Then the perfect flattop is about 3/4 of an inch long in the front, but may be a 1/8 of an inch long at the pinnacle of your scalp depending on the shape of your head. The skilled barber will make it perfectly flat with a landing strip that comes down the middle and fades into the front hairline. The landing strip is the hair on the top that is cut shortest and runs from the front to the back. The whiteness of the scalp has less of a shaddow from the longer hair on the sides and looks like a perfect place to land a toy plane.
Don't confuse flattops with a punk style cut (http://hubpages.com/hub/All-About-Punk-Hair-Styles). These are pure clean cuts. Although, nothing screams March Maddness like a freshly cut flattop. A flatop is a very special haircut that few barbars have mastered. In fact, I've only found one. For $7 in San Luis Obispo you can get the world's greatest flattop at Ray's Barbershop. I've been going to Ray and his daughter Page since I was a little kid. He's worth the trip to San Luis Obispo alone.
The flattop became popular in the 1950s and remains popular with the Marines and midwestern basketball players. We all saw hoosiers and I think a perfect flattop is a prerequisite to a smooth as butter jumper.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Haircut - 2010-X01
Note: My intention with this blog is to document every haircut I get with a post written as soon as I can get from the barbershop to a computer - about that particular experience, before I forget. I have an A+++++"regular barber" but when I'm traveling, I love to sample local barbers. I research them via the Internet or the hotel yellow pages. When I was a kid, I used to try to compare how often I got my hair cut to other boys, so with this idea, I'm going to document how often I get my hair cut on this blog. It's ususally either once a week, once every ten days, or at the longest, once every two weeks - NEVER any longer. Anyway, I hope to continue this blog and see exactl how many cuts I get per year, but for this year - since I'm starting in the middle - I'm going to just label this "haircut posts" with the year, plus an X and a number. In other words, this post is about the first haircut I've gotten in 2010 that I've blogged about, but certainly not the first cut I've gotten this year - hence, "Haircut 2010-X01" (the X stands for nothing except to distinguish this post from future years' cuts, which I plan to write about sequentially and should be labeled something like 2011-01, 2011-02, etc., as I get cuts throughout the year).
I spent most of the week away from home at a work-related event - a place I had visited before and gotten GREAT cuts nearby but not in this specific city. Although I'm always open to getting a cut in a new city, I was also due for my bi-weekly flattop last Friday, so I went ahead and got clipped from my regular barber (I think I'll call him "RB" from now on). It was awesome, as usual. Tight flattop with back/sides shaved to the skin - good for at least another week, if not two.
Anyway, traveled across the country and got into my hotel room. As I always do, I peruse the local yellow pages to get a flavor for the local community, one stop is always the "barbers" section (you can tell a a lot about a place if the names of most of the "barber shops" begin with women's names). Anyway, I found a shop that interested me and researched it online. Reviews were great - it seemed like an ideal traditional shop with great customer experiences (a couple posts specific to flats). So I walked by the shop and saw that, although there were 3 barbers in a very traditional (if not retro) shop, one was a woman. I've gotten some great cuts from women, but their mere presence kind of destroys the concept of a traditional "barbershop." Is this thinking "sexist"? Yes. So is the entire concept of a "barbershop" [i.e., a place for men]. Yes, it's sexist (with the caveat that "sexist" isn't necessarily undesireable). A barbershop is every bit as sexist as a gynecologist's office - "partners" are allowed, but somewhat unwelcome by most of the clientele. (BTW, I'm totally fine with butch lesbians in barbershops- they are one of the guys). Even still, I was tempted to get a cut at this barbershop, so I called them just to see if the recommended barber was even working that day - he was and said he could cut my flat short, flat, and shaved sides/back.
My other problem was that I didn't have much hair to cut, although weekly haircuts are my preference when I'm wearing a short summer flat. Which I am at this time, but would a new barber understand that? I gave one last chance to the vacation barbershop, and although I wanted to try out the recommended Internet barber, the shop seemed to busy and I just wasn't that excited about the atmosphere. Plus, the parking was nonexistent. So I ultimately passed - but it's a shop I will remember and perhaps try someday when my travels bring me there again,
However, before I drove away, within a block of the barbershop I've been talking about, I saw a "flattop stud" walking around. Let me define that term:
FLATTOP STUD: (noun); a gentleman of any age who confidently wears a flattop haircut, usually cut to a very short length or in an unusually stylish shape, who impresses (or causes envy in) another man sheerly by the act of wearing his haircut publicly.
This stud had a FRESH flattop - cut HIGH on the back, bald back/sides, short/shoed top. I felt certain that he had gotten it at the shop I had considered (given their online reviews), but he was walking in a direction that made me wonder (he was going both towards and away from the shop - as if he had not just left it, but was also trying to leave it to get back to work, etc.). I lost the FS, but I would guess that he was in law enforcement (he had the goatee, not military). Still, this was a very short and very inspiring haircut - it was cut HIGH in the back and very SHORT on the top.
To make a long story shorter, I didn't get the chance to ask the FS (in a long-sleeved, salmon-colored dress shirt and tie) where he got his flattop cut (something I often do). So, I flew home with "long" hair (to me, but nobody else) and conveniently was able to visit my RB.
Some guys have commented (on other sites) that once you find a good barber - espeically a flattop barber- you never leave him. I agree 100%, but sometimes like to sample other barbers when I'm traveling. More often than not, the cut is not better than my RB's, but I enjoy the experience anyway. This time, I chose certainty over potential experience - but, inspired by the FS I saw, to go even shorter (as I often do in the summertime).
My RB is a one-chair shop - popular, and often crowded (I've just left a few times rather than stick out the wait, which my RB says has gone to as late as 10 PM). Today there were a few cars, more than I prefer (and one that I asummed was one of his young clientele, parked over two spots). However, when I walked in, I was shocked to see an empty barber chair and a middle-aged guy paying and leaving. As my RB said, the chair was ready for me - "perfect timing," he always says when there's an empty chair. I jumped into the chair, RB caped me, put on the neck strip, etc., while I waited patiently for him to attach new blades to his clippers (he later told me - perfect for a sharp new cut).
It was a great FT experience - just my RB and me. RB always cuts the back and sides first, to the skin as close as he can with clippers. Then he applies hot lather shaving cream and skins the sides and back with either a Bic or straight razor. (I happen to love the feel of a straight razor, but the Bic actually seems to do a closer and cleaner job, with fewer nicks - my goal is to walk out with a slick bald back and sides).
When it seemed like my RB was ready to cut the top, I stopped the converstation and said, "Are you about to do the top?," to which RB affired, and this time I said, "I want you to cut it even shorter on the top - cut it as close to the skin as you possibly can" and RB said "I gotcha" or something similar.
Anyway, great cut - almost to the skin at the very top, clipper-shaved (but not razor-shaved, which I've actually had done a few times by different barbers).
Walked out with a really short flattop and super-smoooooth sides and back. Smoothness with last through the weekend, top should stay flat a week or two. Until next time.
I spent most of the week away from home at a work-related event - a place I had visited before and gotten GREAT cuts nearby but not in this specific city. Although I'm always open to getting a cut in a new city, I was also due for my bi-weekly flattop last Friday, so I went ahead and got clipped from my regular barber (I think I'll call him "RB" from now on). It was awesome, as usual. Tight flattop with back/sides shaved to the skin - good for at least another week, if not two.
Anyway, traveled across the country and got into my hotel room. As I always do, I peruse the local yellow pages to get a flavor for the local community, one stop is always the "barbers" section (you can tell a a lot about a place if the names of most of the "barber shops" begin with women's names). Anyway, I found a shop that interested me and researched it online. Reviews were great - it seemed like an ideal traditional shop with great customer experiences (a couple posts specific to flats). So I walked by the shop and saw that, although there were 3 barbers in a very traditional (if not retro) shop, one was a woman. I've gotten some great cuts from women, but their mere presence kind of destroys the concept of a traditional "barbershop." Is this thinking "sexist"? Yes. So is the entire concept of a "barbershop" [i.e., a place for men]. Yes, it's sexist (with the caveat that "sexist" isn't necessarily undesireable). A barbershop is every bit as sexist as a gynecologist's office - "partners" are allowed, but somewhat unwelcome by most of the clientele. (BTW, I'm totally fine with butch lesbians in barbershops- they are one of the guys). Even still, I was tempted to get a cut at this barbershop, so I called them just to see if the recommended barber was even working that day - he was and said he could cut my flat short, flat, and shaved sides/back.
My other problem was that I didn't have much hair to cut, although weekly haircuts are my preference when I'm wearing a short summer flat. Which I am at this time, but would a new barber understand that? I gave one last chance to the vacation barbershop, and although I wanted to try out the recommended Internet barber, the shop seemed to busy and I just wasn't that excited about the atmosphere. Plus, the parking was nonexistent. So I ultimately passed - but it's a shop I will remember and perhaps try someday when my travels bring me there again,
However, before I drove away, within a block of the barbershop I've been talking about, I saw a "flattop stud" walking around. Let me define that term:
FLATTOP STUD: (noun); a gentleman of any age who confidently wears a flattop haircut, usually cut to a very short length or in an unusually stylish shape, who impresses (or causes envy in) another man sheerly by the act of wearing his haircut publicly.
This stud had a FRESH flattop - cut HIGH on the back, bald back/sides, short/shoed top. I felt certain that he had gotten it at the shop I had considered (given their online reviews), but he was walking in a direction that made me wonder (he was going both towards and away from the shop - as if he had not just left it, but was also trying to leave it to get back to work, etc.). I lost the FS, but I would guess that he was in law enforcement (he had the goatee, not military). Still, this was a very short and very inspiring haircut - it was cut HIGH in the back and very SHORT on the top.
To make a long story shorter, I didn't get the chance to ask the FS (in a long-sleeved, salmon-colored dress shirt and tie) where he got his flattop cut (something I often do). So, I flew home with "long" hair (to me, but nobody else) and conveniently was able to visit my RB.
Some guys have commented (on other sites) that once you find a good barber - espeically a flattop barber- you never leave him. I agree 100%, but sometimes like to sample other barbers when I'm traveling. More often than not, the cut is not better than my RB's, but I enjoy the experience anyway. This time, I chose certainty over potential experience - but, inspired by the FS I saw, to go even shorter (as I often do in the summertime).
My RB is a one-chair shop - popular, and often crowded (I've just left a few times rather than stick out the wait, which my RB says has gone to as late as 10 PM). Today there were a few cars, more than I prefer (and one that I asummed was one of his young clientele, parked over two spots). However, when I walked in, I was shocked to see an empty barber chair and a middle-aged guy paying and leaving. As my RB said, the chair was ready for me - "perfect timing," he always says when there's an empty chair. I jumped into the chair, RB caped me, put on the neck strip, etc., while I waited patiently for him to attach new blades to his clippers (he later told me - perfect for a sharp new cut).
It was a great FT experience - just my RB and me. RB always cuts the back and sides first, to the skin as close as he can with clippers. Then he applies hot lather shaving cream and skins the sides and back with either a Bic or straight razor. (I happen to love the feel of a straight razor, but the Bic actually seems to do a closer and cleaner job, with fewer nicks - my goal is to walk out with a slick bald back and sides).
When it seemed like my RB was ready to cut the top, I stopped the converstation and said, "Are you about to do the top?," to which RB affired, and this time I said, "I want you to cut it even shorter on the top - cut it as close to the skin as you possibly can" and RB said "I gotcha" or something similar.
Anyway, great cut - almost to the skin at the very top, clipper-shaved (but not razor-shaved, which I've actually had done a few times by different barbers).
Walked out with a really short flattop and super-smoooooth sides and back. Smoothness with last through the weekend, top should stay flat a week or two. Until next time.
Mission Statement
First post. Although I've read blogs for years, I've never tried to write one myself. So this is my first attempt and I'm posting this just as an experiment. I hope to make it more sophisticated over time as I learn how to use Blogger.
The Internet is full of pages about niche subject matter. Anyone who ever wanted to write a book about a subject that passionately interested him -- just for the joy of writing, not for profit - can now do so for free in a blog or personal website.
The flattop haircut is a niche subject that interests me, and has done so since I was a child. I've worn one off and on since I was a young teenager. There are many "men's short haircut" websites and discussion forums on the Internet (yes, I've searched on this subject) but I wanted to create my own personal forum to share about this specific haircut - although I've found at least two other sites on this particular subject (PathGuy's and The Flattop Crew). I don't have anything other to offer the Internet except my own personal experiences and point of view.
I suppose my purpose is purely personal - I'd like to (1) document my personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences with and about this haircut, and (2) to document my specific, individual haircut experiences (I just got back from the barbershop and will write a second post about that shortly) for my own recollection - kind of like a haircut diary.
I am writing this for myself, but since I have chosen to publish it in a blog form, I wonder if anyone else will ever read it. Perhaps - we'll see, it would surely be a ultra-niche subject matter, but I've gathered there are a few others out there who are interested in flattops. I have thought about the subject a lot, have gotten the cut a lot over many years in various forms (in about 20 U.S. states and a few foreign countries), and I have a lot to say about this haircut - which I will do over time.
The Internet is full of pages about niche subject matter. Anyone who ever wanted to write a book about a subject that passionately interested him -- just for the joy of writing, not for profit - can now do so for free in a blog or personal website.
The flattop haircut is a niche subject that interests me, and has done so since I was a child. I've worn one off and on since I was a young teenager. There are many "men's short haircut" websites and discussion forums on the Internet (yes, I've searched on this subject) but I wanted to create my own personal forum to share about this specific haircut - although I've found at least two other sites on this particular subject (PathGuy's and The Flattop Crew). I don't have anything other to offer the Internet except my own personal experiences and point of view.
I suppose my purpose is purely personal - I'd like to (1) document my personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences with and about this haircut, and (2) to document my specific, individual haircut experiences (I just got back from the barbershop and will write a second post about that shortly) for my own recollection - kind of like a haircut diary.
I am writing this for myself, but since I have chosen to publish it in a blog form, I wonder if anyone else will ever read it. Perhaps - we'll see, it would surely be a ultra-niche subject matter, but I've gathered there are a few others out there who are interested in flattops. I have thought about the subject a lot, have gotten the cut a lot over many years in various forms (in about 20 U.S. states and a few foreign countries), and I have a lot to say about this haircut - which I will do over time.
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