Culture

There have been three epochs in my hair history. I don’t count grooming as an infant in the discussion mainly because I can’t remember any of that. Rather, the following recounts commence when I was about seven or eight years old and conclude a few days ago in my 64th year. However, there are important background facts that require illuminating right from the start, namely, 1.       I am extremely hairy and have always been extremely hairy. I can grow hair in places and at densities that would alarm most anthropoid primates. I’ve exhibited this characteristic from a very early age. Adolescence wasn’t a major portal to hairy manhood for me but a small and already familiar garden gate with its latch broken. 2.       In terms of any measure of fashion awareness, knowledge or observance that you may be familiar with, I routinely trail the pack by about a decade……….. and that’s in a good year. My first recollection of ...