Was the no sideburns look big in the 80s?

the hatred of bell bottoms went so far as to lead to the now dead art of "tight rolling" your jeans. (look it up, kids!)

I don't know about that, plenty of side-burn styles existed in the 80s from rock bands like Martin Chambers (The Pretenders) Lemmy (Motorhead), and Joe Strummer and the Clash members, Jake from "Sixteen Candles", Sean Penn when he was married to Madonna, etc..

I definitely remember the Anti-bell bottoms though.



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for a while, it definitely was an EXTREME anti-sideburn look. Haircutters used to take a razor and just slice your hair off right across that spot in a perfect, exaggerated line so the side of your head leading to your temple looked completely bald!

--Daniel W. Kelly, author, "Closet Monsters: Zombied Out and Tales of Gothrotica"

The 'no sideburns' look was popular around the mid-1980s primarily because of Oklahoma University inside linebacker Brian Bosworth, the most popular, yet controversial, college football player at the time. The no-sideburns cut along with "the porcupine" became a haircut called "The Boz." Around 1987, Boz was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks and unfortunately became one of the biggest flops in NFL history. But went on to have a decent B-movie career. Fun while it lasted; and I admit, I had "The Boz" haircut back in the day.

The 70's were only awesome fashionwise if you NEVER had to wear any of it. Honestly, plaid bellbottoms, tough-skins with knee patches, turtlenecks and crocheted vests are the stuff of nightmares for those of us who had to wear them.

And by the 80's only "old men" would have worn sideburns at all!

"But you have to admit, the style of the 70's was AWESOME."

I was alive in the 70's. The fashions were AWFUL! Leisure suits, shirts with massive collars, ghastly earth tones like brown, orange, light blues, and green.

Watching an episode Match Game is tatamount to torture, nowadays.

"You people voted for Hubert Humphrey! And you killed Jesus!" - Raoul Duke

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>is that why Kent was considered a dork? Because he had sideburns?

More the suck-up attitude, the braces (in college?), the car, the glasses, and general demeanor. Schoolboy frames were somewhat popular at the time, but usually darker frames than he had. No, Kent was a dork for far more than his sideburns...

"There were many things that were big in the 80s, and the no sideburns look was nothing compared to what women did to their hair back then. Thanks to the 80s, I absolutely hate hairspray."

Amen to that... The smell of Aquanet or that apple smell of salon selectives made me wanna puke.

When I was in high school, we were afraid to light our cigarettes in the bathrooms, fearing we'd blow up the school, because the girls bathrooms were a few feet away, and the you could smell the hairspray up and down the hallway.

But at least it covered up the smell of our smoke! :)

"You people voted for Hubert Humphrey! And you killed Jesus!" - Raoul Duke

Where exactly was the "no sideburns" look banned or frowned upon? There were many musicians, artists, actors, and media personalities donning Side-burns from the big choppers to the sleek whiskers from the early 80s all the way into the 90s.





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oh yeah no sideburns to the point of, what we called "whitewalls" which was, as a few people have mentioned, shaving the hair above the ear to create a line of bare skin... that could be anywhere from about 1/2 inch to maybe 2 inches to create "the Boz" look...

I'm a girl and I had short hair with whitewalls about 1983 or so.. .very cool at the time :)

and yeah, sideburns would have labelled you as a hippie or rockabilly, depending on the rest of your clothing choices :)

I was 19 in 1980, so I was a total fashion victim, followed just about every trend there was at some point.. the clothes and styles were so much fun, so much color and so many choices, and if you weren't married to one style, you could switch up how you dressed... miss those days, except for the epic shoulder pads, it was good to lose those!