It's almost de riguer, now, isn't it? Just about everyone under the age of 40 who's going as bald as a coot simply shaves it all off, and pretends they look like Bruce Willis, or if they can't pull that off, Grant Mitchell.
I'm not afflicted by the baldness gene (if anything, my continued hirsuteness is more of a problem, as after four weeks without a haircut I look like Leo Sayer) but it got me thinking, in the photo comparisons between Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney in the papers today. Bobby was 31, 32 when half of those "combover" pictures he's now ridiculed for were taken, the poor bastard. Nowadays he'd have shaved the lot off and been as cool as Jason Statham, wouldn't he?
I'm not afflicted by the baldness gene (if anything, my continued hirsuteness is more of a problem, as after four weeks without a haircut I look like Leo Sayer) but it got me thinking, in the photo comparisons between Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney in the papers today. Bobby was 31, 32 when half of those "combover" pictures he's now ridiculed for were taken, the poor bastard. Nowadays he'd have shaved the lot off and been as cool as Jason Statham, wouldn't he?
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