ABSTRACT
The most preferred cut of the day was modeled after the hair style worn by the just-tumed-teenager Prince Charles of Great Britain. It features a forward-oblique movement of the hair that fell over the forehead. Barbers eschewing clippers in the cutting process created a feathered effect over the ears and allowed the sideburns to become rather full. Many barbers of that era questioned naming it the "Prince Charles Cut". Tristan of Hollywood termed it "only a variation on the Buster Brown Cut and the style author invented for Edd Byrnes". Whatever its origins, the style remained highly fashionable up to 1964. Newsweek noted that half the boys' haircuts given to five-year-olds and under at San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins by late 1962 were Prince Charles Cuts. However, the rise of Beatlemania hastened the style's fall from favor as youths of all ages begged and cajoled their parents to permit them to imitate the luxuriant moptops worn by the Fab Four.
