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bookerdana Really?
I saw no evidence for that; but hairdressers did realise they had to learn more than the "traditional", boringly uniform, military-style "short-back-and-sides" given to boys and men since at least the early-20th Century.
I do though remember the huffing-and-puffing from the Disgusteds-of-Tunbridge-Wells about "long-haired layabouts". This epithet applied to any and all male teenagers and young men who dared let their hair touch their collars while listening to this new-fangled "beat music".
It was a long time before I realised the complaining was most likely from sheer envy.
The "Disgusteds" had been born in the 1920s and 30s. Some even before that, possibly far enough back to have served in World War One. They had lived through the Second World War, through depressions and shortages, long periods of drab uniformitty and conformity - some had served in the Forces, seen and done appalling things.
Then they saw all these youngsters from the 1950s, enjoying opportunities, clothing and music fashions, leisure pursuits, freedom from National Service* and personal choices they (the elders) had never known. So were simply jealous.
Why "Disgusteds-of-Tunbridge-Wells"?
It was a catch-all lampooning of the moaning letters to the newspapers. You could live anywhere to be "Disgusted" that "the youth of today" with their long hair and 'orrible pop music, were nothing like your own youth you might have lost in the front-line muck and bullets or the icy seas; or at best in following Dad, Grandad, Great-Grandad into the same boring work for poor pay and conditions.
Tunbridge Wells though, is a "leafy suburbs" Kent town, a dormitory for commuters to London's ever-so-respectable money-trade, and retirement-spot for the military officers who had survived war.
*National Service in the UK was post-War army conscription whose only purpose seemed to have been wearing out thousands of pairs of Boots, Square-bashing. Some conscripts were used in active service in Korea.
