WI : (Male) US President with Long Hair (past shoulder length) after 1970's

ASUKIRIK

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Let's say that due to having different personal grooming choices, at least one of US President post 1970 end up in office wearing his hair long. And by long, I meant past shoulder length.

What is the likely effect of one of these Presidents sporting long hair when they sit at the Oval Office (let's say they still become President despite having long hair styled in ponytail or longer?):
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George HW Bush
Bill Clinton
George W Bush
Barrack Obama
Donald Trump

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What is the likely cultural effect of having long hair back in the white house? bonus points if there is logical POD where Long Hair (shoulder length or more) is back as formal style for men in 1980-2010s.

You could pick an alternate President of US too... but the rule is said president must be Male, due to simple facts that women with long hair are already very acceptable.
 
Bill Clinton would be the most likely candidate. He could keep his hair from his years at Yale, apply his affability and knowledge, and still become governor. Reagan, Carter, and HW didn’t come from an era where long hair would be acceptable or even the norm. Bush was a product of a conservative era that rejected long hair and the hippish lifestyle.

Barack Obama is a different story altogether. For a black candidate with Obama’s hair texture, the closest you’ll get to long hair is Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988, and even that was tame for an Afro.

Can’t really speak to the cultural effects. Flat long hair is quite boring to me.
 

ASUKIRIK

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Ah, so Bill Clinton would be the most likely to have Long hair as US President then.

Assuming he kept his hairstyle (probably arranged in classical 18-19th century court dress in formal occasions), what is the likely cultural effects of having US President with noticeably long hair in 1990's?

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And yeah, Obama with afro sounds cool too.
 
Ah, so Bill Clinton would be the most likely to have Long hair as US President then.

Assuming he kept his hairstyle (probably arranged in classical 18-19th century court dress in formal occasions), what is the likely cultural effects of having US President with noticeably long hair in 1990's?

More hippy and tree-hugger jokes at the democrats expense? I really don't know beyond that.
 

ASUKIRIK

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The subject is very controversial but what if the POD is a successful movement against male gender roles?
not necessarily gender roles changing.
a greater interest in reinassaince and or enlightenment era styles might also bore similar result.

Or in America for particular, emulating the styles of the founding fathers. Washington's hair is not wig, but naturally grown and treated long hair. Bill Clinton decided to wear his hair in 18th century style would definitely not associated with hippie too. Would be seen as throwback to early days of America.

Obama keeping a long hair in long curly ponytail, or dreadlocks, or flattened and straightened like Michelle, would be good one too. Too many Black men end up with close cropped hair, if Obama wear his hair long, it may just spark the new long hair fad among black men.

Or maybe instead of sporting ridiculous comb over style, Trump dislike cutting his hair and opt for simple long hair, who kept as man bun in formal occasions.
 
That would only happen if conservative backlash to hippie movement completely unsuccessfull. Very big scandal in military and church ? Massive farming collapse in Midwest ?
 
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If this hair style counts, near shoulder length, I could imagine a mid-state politician gaining momentum, without being ridiculed for his choice of hair.
 

ASUKIRIK

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If this hair style counts, near shoulder length, I could imagine a mid-state politician gaining momentum, without being ridiculed for his choice of hair.
well, aside of some entries who cut their hair short when assuming offices (as 20th century presidents OTL), this list is good...

https://blog.thelonghairs.us/longhair-presidents-of-the-united-states/

Yeah, near shoulder length hair, or long bottom hair woth balding top may count too... but I still Prefer Washington or John Quincy Adams length hair
 
Sorry I just have commentary, but it's related: god, DC could use a fashion shake-up! Liberal in almost all areas, but conservative as hell in fashion. I've seen polls of the best and worst dressed cities and DC is usually on the bottom of those lists, which I protest a little bit. DC isn't BADLY dressed.* It's just conservatively dressed. The average districtonian walks around looking like a picture-perfect catalog model from some middle-of-the-road, off-the-rack outlet place, one of those places with "closet" or "basement" or something in their name. Perfectly-coiffed but unadorned. Never ostentatious, never risky.

And the hair is the same! I won't get into women's hair (I don't have a death wish) but OMG can we talk about the barber culture in this city?!!? I used to go to a shop like 2-3 blocks from the Capitol because it was the only place in the neighborhood for a cut under $20.** At first I wondered how they stayed in business at that price point with those rents, but after going a few times it became obvious: you'd see the staffers come INTO the shop looking how I was expecting to look on my way OUT of the the shop. They were getting weekly cuts, or even more frequent, trying to freeze their follicles in time almost into a length of perfect, boring normality.

The depth to which mid-century hair norms are embedded in the culture of DC are a little disturbing when you think about them too much. It's at least reflective of the primary accusation that gets leveled at the primary industry of the town- stuck.





* I suspect these rankings take into account the droves of tourists, who tend to look, at best, like a second semester college freshman on their way to an 8 am class.

** I could've gone down to the half dozen barbers that service the Marine barracks for an even cheaper cut, but then I could've also stuck my head close to the business end of a lawn mower and gotten a similar result.
 
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