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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]
[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]
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: An Ivy League, also known as a Harvard Clip or Princeton, is a type of crew cut in which the hair on the top of the head is long enough to style with a side part. Marcel waves
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.
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 ...
John Cena sporting a crew cut. A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the upright hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, [1] graduated in length from the longest hair that forms a short pomp at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown so that in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal.
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.
The recruits came at a trot down the Boulevard de France at the storied Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., shouting cadence from their precise parade ranks. Parents gathered on the sidewalks pressed forward, brandishing cameras and flags, yelling the names of the sons and daughters they hadn’t seen in three months.