Some Humor Today - 1970s Strict Church Rule Resulted in Backward Soupbowl Haircut

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Back in the beginning of the 1970s, my dad had our family attended one of those churches that had a strict list of those handbook rules like;
Women and girls must wear a dress, not slacks
Men and boys can't have hair touching the ears and neck
No facial hair
No bell bottom or flair leg pants
Rock music was the Devil's music
They deemed Bluegrass just about the same way
No going to the theaters...and no going to the beach if you visit a coastal state
No television in the house
No playing cards - No dice

This was back in a day and time (late 1960s - early 1970s) when the "Brady Bunch Look" was the in thing. Young guys wore long sideburns, hair over the tops of the ears, and bell bottom jeans...Some young guys even took on the "Hippie Look", or "Rock Star Look".
Even in the business world, there were office staff, salesmen and CEOs who wore their hair over the ears and down to the shirt collar.
There were men school teachers, and school masters who even wore their hair like the hairstyles seen in the Brady Bunch series.
However...At that Southern Baptist church my dad had our family attend, men's hair standards were like that of the "Leave it to Beaver" series of the 1950s.

Some of the boys who's families attened that church, their parents would allow the to wear their hair down to the eyes in front, being that the church handbook rules prohibited men's and boys hair to touch the ears or neck.
Some of those boys who wore it that way thought it was atleast "halfway cool". But what it always reminded me of was as though their hair got slapped around backwards.
The drawing I recently made is a depiction of how I've pictured it back in the early 1970s in my mind of this scenario.

I've always referred to that compromise haircut as "The Backward Soupbowl"...
...Ot it could be called "The Slap My Head and Call Me Silly" haircut.

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