Why is the Waffen SS haircut so fashionable lately?

Azwaldo55

Everywhere I go I see young men with shaved back and sides and extreme partings with long hair on top.

This was the most popular hair style among Hitler's elite Waffen SS.

http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/24699-8/Junger+SS-Grenadier

http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/32761-5/ssmann

http://i.imgur.com/JR1GB.jpg

Ash.J.Williams

Stylish chaps the SS

endacl

I presume a footballist got it, and then the Jungfellaz just had to get it to?

comongethappy

Hugo Boss uniforms too.

Stylish as fook.

KungPao

They are all obviously Holocaust deniers!

Sick basterds.

BeerWolf

Got to admit - the Germans had style back in WW2, be it uniform or their vehicles and so forth.

entropi

I blame the hipsters.

ScumLord

They're the new wave of fascists. I shout "Nazi scum" at them every time I see them.

Zombienosh

well you can't gas people wearing any old rags

Richard Hillman

The hair Nazi's are out in force........ literally

dutopia

If only the SS had 'messy hair', we wouldn't have had that style the last few years.

urabell

Just because someone played an active part in trying to erase a race of people doesn't mean they aren't worth emulating with regards tk fashion

desultory

Say what you want about the Nazis, they were stylish as f*ck.

RikkFlair

It goes in cycles. The mullet and perm is next up.

KKkitty

RikkFlair wrote: »

It goes in cycles. The mullet and perm is next up.

The mullet, business in the front, party in the back. Really hope that doesn't rear its ugly head again.

wretcheddomain

Azwaldo55 wrote: »

Everywhere I go I see young men with shaved back and sides and extreme partings with long hair on top.

This was the most popular hair style among Hitler's elite Waffen SS.

I'm guessing you're bald and jealous?

anncoates

As there is a only a finite amount of hairstyles to be cannibalized by subculture's serial - and ever tightening - dance with itself, it's merely the random turn of the George Orwell short back and sides.

Plus it's also quite a nice style I think.

It's a style trend that I did Nazi coming

The_Captain

You gotta love the Gareth Bale

fuzzle

just an example of how society is becoming more feminized.

either that, or there's LOTS of gays around these times..

Azwaldo55

The Macgyver style mullet survived for a while into the early 1990s until Keanu Reeves popularized the shaved head in the movie Speed in 1994. Around 1996/1997/1998 longer hair came back due to the popularity of the Oasis with a fringe combed forward into the eyes. Around the early 2000s men started gelling their fringes upward into a pyramid shape. Around 2008/2009 they started parting their hair at the side with a mop over the forehead. Then the short back and sides came back and now everyone looks like an SS recruit.

wexie

fuzzle wrote: »

just an example of how society is becoming more feminized.

either that, or there's LOTS of gays around these times..

they're catching it from the fluoride in the water

or sumthink

KungPao

The big upper body with puny chicken legs and hitler haircut is in these days. That's for sure. Crazy kids.

Irishcrx

I have it , I like it , I'm keeping it....

Now where's that SS aplication form..

Reekwind

fuzzle wrote: »

just an example of how society is becoming more feminized.

either that, or there's LOTS of gays around these times..

Yeah, nothing says 'effete homosexual' like driving your Tiger tank across frozen corpses on the Eastern Front.

Azwaldo55

Irishcrx wrote: »

I have it , I like it , I'm keeping it....

Now where's that SS aplication form..

You would like this song!

A Greedy Algorithm

Gareth Bale has a similar hair cut, cue everyone has a similar haircut.

Irishcrx

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

Gareth Bale has a similar hair cut, cue everyone has a similar haircut.

To be fair , who in the name of god would want to look like Gareth Bale he has a face like a chizzled Gorilla...

Sgt Hartman

ScumLord wrote: »

They're the new wave of fascists. I shout "Nazi scum" at them every time I see them.

That's a bit rich coming from the Lord of Scum himself

Cienciano

After this world cup all the kids are going to want Hitler Youth haircuts like Neymar

Azwaldo55

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

Gareth Bale has a similar hair cut, cue everyone has a similar haircut.

Or was it Tom Hardy or Joseph Gordon Levitt?

A Greedy Algorithm

Azwaldo55 wrote: »

Or was it Tom Hardy or Joseph Gordon Levitt?

Probably all of them gave it the exposure.

Son Of A Vidic

Looks like it's time for....

Azwaldo55

Cienciano wrote: »

After this world cup all the kids are going to want Hitler Youth haircuts like Neymar

Just a few years ago you would have been laughed at for wearing your hair like that. Very odd.

1970s style shirts with wide collars and boot cut trousers with bell bottoms legs were fashionable for a while during the early to late 2000s.

Combats were all the rage about 15 years ago.

FunLover18

Déja vu

KungPao

I'm going to try to set a trend of wig wearing. Like really obvious cheap syrups that you'd find on a mannequin in Michael Guineys.

I'm hoping it'll be en vogue for Spring/Summer 2015.

FunLover18

KungPao wrote: »

I'm going to try to set a trend of wig wearing. Like really obvious cheap syrups that you'd find on a mannequin in Michael Guineys.

I'm hoping it'll be en vogue for Spring/Summer 2015.

Donald Trump tried that(still is), failed miserably

Marhay70

"Short back and sides" was a popular hairstyle worldwide both before and after World War 2, not just in Germany.

burstbuckle

You can say what you want about the SS but when they marched into your town,my how they could turn heads

Amirani

fuzzle wrote: »

just an example of how society is becoming more feminized.

either that, or there's LOTS of gays around these times..

Or people just like to have their hair cut in a certain way?

But I'm sure your suggestions are much more likely...

MRnotlob606

Ah I remember my days in the ol Schutzstaffel phase

Dyr

It's a bit unfair to compare the SS to the **** going around in this day and age with that hair cut

Maximus Alexander

OP, the young people are doing things you don't understand and this scares you. Worry not, this is a normal part of getting excruciatingly old,

Azwaldo55

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

OP, the young people are doing things you don't understand and this scares you. Worry not, this is a normal part of getting excruciatingly old,

I'm not old.

I find it odd when I see teenagers with haircuts that their grandfathers and great grandfathers wore but their parents rebelled against by wearing their hair long.

Alf. A. Male

He was some style icon old Adolf, they didn't call him Hair Hitler for nothing.

Reekwind

Azwaldo55 wrote: »

I find it odd when I see teenagers with haircuts that their grandfathers and great grandfathers wore but their parents rebelled against by wearing their hair long.

And now their children rebel by wearing their hair short and adopting retro hair. Not sure that you should be greatly surprised by this.

Maximus Alexander

Azwaldo55 wrote: »

I'm not old.

As the reality of loss is hard to face, one of the first reactions to follow loss is Denial.

EazyD

I thought this particular monstrosity we speak of was called the "walnut whip"?

The Diabolical Monocle

Why ? Well anything that they think might help in even the least way in the desperate pursuit to get their hole.

SS haircut so be it.

KungPao

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

He was some style icon old Adolf, they didn't call him Hair Hitler for nothing.

That's so bad

Dyr

BeerWolf wrote: »

Got to admit - the Germans had style back in WW2, be it uniform or their vehicles and so forth.

I always assumed they had some sort of secret design consultant bureau that made sure their weapons and vehicles were cool as f**k looking in comparison to the gauche stuff the allies produced

" I don't care if it fires a 1000 rpm, it hurts me just to look at it!! get back to drawing board"


I mean the MG44, the Mg42, the FW 190, the Jagdpanther They all can't just be happy coincidences/