Do you like dreadlocks?

[leftyladyfrommo]

I can't get used to dreadlocks. I'm trying. But I think they look awful.

Does that make an old fogey?

I feel the same way about pants that hang down to knees and show your underwear. I just hate that.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Does that make an old fogey?

Pretty much.

:shrug:

Either reject it, or embrace the fogeyness, I sez.

[billyskank]

2. Are you a TOG?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wogan/togs.shtml

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I knew I was a WOG - but I am also a TOG?

I'm not old before my time - I'm just plain old.

[Montauk6]

16. I don't know about this Terry chap but I'm MY OWN geezer, thank you.

[RollergirlVT]

45. I suffer from perpetual childishness

tee hee

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Only on primate1. He's adorable.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Haha...

:blush:

[buddhamama]

5. it depends on who's sportin' `em

on this guy, hell Yes!

[ghostsofgiants]

6. I have them.

[RetroLounge]

8. Only on Lisa Bonet...

RL

[William Bloode]

9. The dreads i've seen, no.

They were nasty, and the style wearers did not properly wash their hair, and it STUNK! I was told you can't wash them. I'm all for freedom of expression, but if ya got nastiness goin' on you can stay far from me.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. You were told wrong.

You can definitely wash them. You can't use normal shampoo, but you can defnitely wash them.

[William Bloode]

15. Most of my experience comes from prison.

And they sure as hell didn't wash them in there. To worried about them falling apart. If someone washes them fines by me. I honestly don't care if the don't wash them either, just stand back a few feet so i don't have to smell it.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Yeah, something tells me getting the proper shampoo in prison...

Is a bit of a hassle.

[William Bloode]

20. Yes that is true.

Not to mention many of these guys were real Jamaicans and Haitians who held a very traditional view on the care of their Dreads. I saw some who had to have their's cut off because the developed large ulcerations in their scalps.

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Why type shampoo do you need? I never knew this. I thought

you could use regular shampoo the way a person with super curly hair could.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. You need a shampoo that contains no conditioners/whathaveyou

Regular shampoos act to detangle hair, and basicaly, dreads are just very tangled hair, haha.

This is what I use: http://www.knottyboy.com/shop/dread_shampoo/knotty_boy_shampoo_bar/

[Midlodemocrat]

29. *smacks forehead* Well, that should have been obvious to me.

My eldest is constantly straightening her hair with conditioners, the straightening iron, etc., so I appreciate a glimpse into the other side.

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. I don't personally care for them.

However, I don't judge anyone who has them. :) I do, however, judge the crotch-to-the-knees pants wearers... :grr: PULL THEM UP!!!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. Those pants make me nerfvous - keep thinking they are just going

to fall off.

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. I worked with a woman once who was the motherly type...

...and she would see guys walking around campus (at a community college) like that. She knew most of them, so she had no problem whatsoever in walking right up to them and giving them hell. "Does your mama know you walk around town like that? What if your drawers fell down to your ankles? Pull them UP!" She was half-joking and half not, but those guys knew to pay attention to her. They'd pull them up and kept them up all day. If she saw them again like that, she'd give them hell again. She actually broke most of them of the bad habit. :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I was told to pull my pants up so many times in high school.

Now I can't stand baggy pants at all.

[Haole Girl]

17. Yes

I like them. I have no idea why....just do!

Maybe it has something to do with my early fascination
with Cobi Jones, the soccer star:

[leftyladyfrommo]

26. I th8ink they look fine on black hair - it's blond hair that I think

looks bad. They always look dirty to me.

But, hey, what do I know?"

[Haole Girl]

27. Well, I think it is a bit

icky, for lack of a better word momentarily, not to wash them!

[Montauk6]

19. For me they're the Island Mullet

[Shakespeare]

22. Yes, but not on white boys.

Marley? Kravitz? Yup. White reggae surfer wannabees? Nope.

[seemunkee]

24. Most of them

There is one guy in my town that I see a lot. He has one single dread that covers the entire back of his head. Its about 4" across and is now down to his waist. It is quite bizarre looking and looks like a raccoon or fox tail. I did hear from my son that he has some mental issues that after having been in a bad car accident he won't get in any type of vehicle. He runs everywhere.

[bridgit]

25. seen a white guy going into the safeway here in town with blond...

dreads down past his ass, and his beard was dreaded down to his belt buckle, front & back dreads tied/arrayed in a form, or style...it seemed to work for him just fine kinda cool :)

[Shine]

28. Some people can carry it off better than others. It just depends.

On the whole, though, I think they're fine.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. You're not an "old fogey" if you don't like 'em. They're just not your thang...No biggie.

But hey, I can relate with regards to the underwear showing. That just looks soooo lame to me. :eyes:

[leftyladyfrommo]

30. I'm an old hippy - used to be people that had dreads back then, too

and they were dirty - but those people were dirty all over. I think that is where I go so I didn't care for them.

[pscot]

31. They make me wonder what degree of vanity

it takes to maintain the look. Clearly a major portion of your life has got to be about hair. That can't be good.

[leftyladyfrommo]

32. Huh? I thought you just never touched your hair and it would just

eventually go like that.

Not true?

[ghostsofgiants]

33. I spend ridiculously little time at my hair.

Wash every day, tighten/wax 'em maybe twice a week.

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. You wax your hair?

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Dread wax.

http://www.knottyboy.com/shop/dread_wax/

It's explained in the product description.

[ContraBass Black]

38. That's a lot more than I do to my hair.

I cut it off to save myself the trouble of combing.

[idgiehkt]

41. wrong.

only a man would say that, lol.

If you knew what kind of time (and money) my mother and sister spend on their hair...and probably half of the stuff they put on it is toxic as hell. Your statement about vanity probably applies to at least 50 percent of women walking around, though I'm sure you didn't intend to insult people with 'styled' hair, which is a heck of alot of females and plenty of men, too.

I don't have dreads, but I think they are gorgeous...I love the way they look. I've had them in the past, but my hair is really too fine to keep them, I'd have to have extensions to really make them look good. When I had them I just wore a bandana, and didn't mess with them.

Right now I rarely brush my hair more than twice a week, at the very most, because I just hate doing it. I just wear it wrapped up in a bun. I think people get dreads because they don't want to fool with their hair, not because they do.

[RevolutionaryActs]

36. I like them.

I would never have dreadlocks, but I like them on the right person. I've known people who didn't take care of their drealocks, and they looked like shit. But if you take care of them, then they can be hawt.

[jonnyblitz]

37. Old fogey's have dreadlocks, too. "like or dislike" is a matter of

personal taste, it has nothing to do with age or shouldn't. I am "old" and I love them.

I can't picture Primate1 without them, quite frankly! he wears them, well. :thumbsup:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

39. I almost got them, but decided it would be too much trouble to do

and I thought it might conflict with school dresscode

[trof]

40. Since you ask...no.

And that's all I'm, sayin'.

[tigereye]

42. I think dreads look cool

I don't know that styles which are popular today are any more or less disturbing to our elders than they were in days past. Except that we are now the "elders! I try to remember that when I see the guys tripping over their over-sized pants! ;)


people used to hate when we wore those giant elephant bells when I was a teen, so there you go.

[bicentennial_baby]

43. as long as they're not on a Trustafarian...

it's ok by me :)

[ghostsofgiants]

46. I am definitely not one of those.

[bicentennial_baby]

48. Oh, I know that!

But you know what I'm saying, eh? :)

:pals:

[ghostsofgiants]

52. Indeed I do, indeed I do.

[idgiehkt]

54. the town I used to live in was full of

dreadlocked trustafarians.

I understand they are privileged, but I still find them aesthetically pleasing, you know?

Can't help it, I just love texture.

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. On the right person I like them.

:hi:

[last_texas_dem]

47. They're cool with me

I tend to support long hair on guys in general just 'cause it's become such a rarity in recent years. I do think people with dredlocks should wash their hair as often as is reasonable to keep their scalp from being overly oily or smelling bad, but that's true for anyone with any sort of hair. But overall, they seem like a more manageable style for guys with curly hair who want to keep it long.

[Blue-Jay]

49. I used to wish that I could have dreads.

My hair is too fine, though.

Luckily, it's still all on my head with no sign of leaving, so I guess I still win!

[hippywife]

50. Absolutely love them!

I would love to let my freak flag fly and have them but it really wouldn't fly to well at work at all.

[bigwillq]

51. Sometimes

Depends on who the person is.

[ikojo]

53. I like dreaddies and would love to have some

but since I work in an office, I'd need nice looking dreads. To get nice looking dreads means I'd have to get my hair twisted every other week and it's expensive. Tried it and had to quite because I ran out of twisting funds.

[Heidi]

55. Oh, yes. They look _excellent_ on primate1 and

Lenny Kravitz.


This isn't primate1. primate1 is cuter.