The secret of the waves

[Sydney Grew]

I have often wondered, what gentlemen have to go through to get waves in their hair?

Oddly enough I have not yet come to know such a man well enough to ask him personally, but it is clear that there are plenty around. Do they move in certain circles?

[french frank]

I suppose in most cases it is naturally wavy. Here is a simple explanation from the Big Site of Amazing Facts. HTH (an abbreviation for "Hope This Helps").

[scottycelt]

I suppose in most cases it is naturally wavy. Here is a simple explanation from the Big Site of Amazing Facts. HTH (an abbreviation for "Hope This Helps").

I am somewhat loathe to contradict the Big Site of Amazing Facts but my father had thick, wavy hair and that did not seem to determine the direction of my own thin, straight-flowing locks.

So the inheritance factor is not quite cut and dried, as it were.

[french frank]

So the inheritance factor is not quite cut and dried, as it were.

It couldn't be strictly accurate, as you might have one parent with wiry wavy hair (my father did) and the other with fine silky hair (like my mother's).

[amateur51]

It couldn't be strictly accurate, as you might have one parent with wiry wavy hair (my father did) and the other with fine silky hair (like my mother's).

There again, perchance scotty's mother's milkman had a bicycle ... but that's too unChristian a thought for a Sunday

[Sydney Grew]

Here's another, if that helps:

[gradus]

Having one's mum admire and draw the attention of others to a son's curly-haired bonce must in some way be involved but so far, neuro-scientits are at a loss to explain it. By the way, historians now believe that Bernard Levin attended the same hairdresser as Benjamin Britten.

[gradus]

..... and Larry Adler.

[gradus]

ahem, scientists.

[LeMartinPecheur]

ahem, scientists.

"Neuro-scientits are at a loss to explain it." But neuro-scientists have had all the answers for years I expect

[amateur51]

"Neuro-scientits are at a loss to explain it." But neuro-scientists have had all the answers for years I expect

[Thropplenoggin]

I am somewhat loathe to contradict the Big Site of Amazing Facts but my father had thick, wavy hair and that did not seem to determine the direction of my own thin, straight-flowing locks.

So the inheritance factor is not quite cut and dried, as it were.

Oh dear. Somebody needs to relearn their Mendelian inheritance theory. Words you might like to investigate include dominant, recessive, allele.

[amateur51]

Oh dear. Somebody needs to relearn their Mendelian inheritance theory. Words you might like to investigate include dominant, recessive, allele.

Are you taking the peas, Throppers?

Mind you, Mendel was an Augustinian friar so scotty might listen

[Thropplenoggin]

Are you taking the peas, Throppers?

Mind you, Mendel was an Augustinian friar so scotty might listen

<sundry backslapping emoticons>.

[Ferretfancy]

I've noticed that a lot of male movie stars in the 1930s had wavy hair, Dick Powell was one. His career continued long after those Busby Berkeley extravaganzas he appeared in as a young man, and in his late films the waves disappeared. I suspect the attentions of the studio hair stylists were responsible.Wavy hair was certainly a young man's fashion before WWII, but I think Britten's was a natural product.