It just occured to me that the skin fades that every Irish lad has are kinda similar to the traditional flat caps. Could there be a connection?

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1. Is the connection not just lads trying to look like Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders?

2. Some of ye have too much time on your hands

3. Little snowflakes have driven the cost of a haircut from 8 quid to 25+ with this crap. Just sit down and ask for a short back and sides like it’s been for the last century.

4. Sad sad bastards on this sub

5. It’s actually similar to the old Glib Haircut that the British banned twice and as happens became more popular and a badge of Irish nationalism pre-dating the croppy cut of the United Irishmen.

   French writer in 1517:

   > “for they (Irish men) were shorn and shaved one palm above the ears, so that only the tops of their heads were covered with hair. But on the forehead they leave about a palm of hair to grow down to their eyebrows like a tuft of hair which one leaves hanging on horses between the two eyes”

6. Incoming Blindboy podcast

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8. I love that haircut. In my fifties.