Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The high and tight as seen on a U.S. Marine. The high and tight is a military variant of the crew cut. It is a very short hairstyle, characterized by the back and sides of the head being shaved to the skin and the option for the top to be blended or faded into slightly longer hair. It is most commonly worn by men in the U.S. armed forces. [1]
However, if you prefer your hair a little longer on top, you can try replacing the short military-style crew cut with a slightly longer high-and-tight haircut. Albino Abreu / iStock 4.
The hair is cut short on the sides and is grown long on the top. This style was popular among African-American youth and men in the late 1980s and early 1990s. High and tight: A military variant of the crew cut. Induction cut: A haircut given to recruits being inducted into military service. It is similar to a buzz cut. Ivy League
Jarhead has several oft-disputed explanations, including how the "high and tight" haircut allows the head to resemble a jar lid, as well as pejoratives about empty heads. However, the term "jarhead" was well established in the 1950s, while the term "high and tight" did not yet exist; Marines who chose to trim their hair closely on the sides ...
They performed stately, somber ceremonies for years at the cemetery: handsome, dark and gray horses pulled a gleaming caisson, spit-and-polish soldiers with signature high-and-tight haircuts ...
Jarhead has several supposed origins: the regulation "High and Tight" haircut resembles a mason jar (to add insult, some note that the jar is an empty vessel, also therefore a Marine's head an empty vessel); the Mason Jar Company stopped making jars and made the helmets for Marines during World War II. JAX – Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
[citation needed] It is one of the hairstyles that balding men often choose. In the French Foreign Legion this form of haircut, used by all recruits and many légionnaires, is termed boule à zéro (zero ball). In recent years, the U.S. military style of high and tight has also become popular in the Légion. [citation needed]