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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]
"The Tide Is High" is a 1967 rocksteady song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group the Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980, when a cover version by the American band Blondie became a US and UK number one hit. [ 2 ]
High and tight refers to the type of flattop with the sides shaved close worn by a large percentage of the US military. Horseshoe flattop refers to the exact same haircut, but with the top slightly lower, so that the center of the head doesn't have enough hair on it to produce a uniformly colored apperarance.
Play-by-play announcers sometimes call a high brushback pitch as being "high and tight". It is also referred to as chin music . While the brushback can be an effective part of pitching, the home-plate umpire may warn or eject a pitcher if he feels they are intentionally trying to hit the batter.
Brush cut Marine. A brush cut is a type of haircut in which the hair on the top of the head is cut short in every dimension. [1] The top and the upper portion of the back and sides are cut the same length, generally between 1 ⁄ 4 and 1 ⁄ 2 inch (6 and 13 mm), following the contour of the head.
A Woman wearing hold-up stockings A woman in Japan wearing white hold-ups, 2023. Hold-ups or stay-ups (in the United States also referred to as thigh-high stockings or simply thigh highs) [1] are stockings with an elasticized band at the top, designed to hold the stockings up when worn, without the use of a garter belt or garters.
Actor James McAvoy with a buzz cut. A buzz cut, or wiffle cut, is a variety of short hairstyles, especially where the length of hair is the same on all parts of the head.. Rising to prominence initially with the advent of manual hair clippers, buzz cuts became increasingly popular in places where strict grooming conventions app
Skin-tight garment, a garment that is held to the skin by elastic tension; Tights, a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet; Tightlacing, the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset "Tighties", a slang term for tight cycling shorts. "Tighty-whiteys", American slang for men’s or boys' briefs