Bowl cut

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A bowl cut, also known as a beach cut, pot haircut, and a mushroom cut, is a haircut where the hair is cut short on the sides and back and allowed to grow long on the top, looking as though someone put a bowl on the head and cut off all the visible hair. Perhaps the most famous bowl cut wearer was Moe Howard, who wore it as part of his Three Stooges persona.

Historically this haircut was popular among common people of various nationalities as an easy and relatively neat cut by a non-professional. Indeed, it was done by putting a cooking pot of a fit size to the level of ears, and all hair below the rim was cut or even shaven off. In some cultures it was a normal type of haircut. In other cultures the bowl cut was viewed as an attribute of poverty: the person could not afford himself to visit a barber. The bowl cut is quite popular among the Amish.

The bowl cut gained popularity in America among teenaged and pre-teen boys in the 1980s and was often associated with skateboard culture. Indeed, this hairstyle was a veritable fad in some locales. The popularity of the bowl cut faded in the mid-1990s. [1]

The bowl cut is a forerunner of the Beatle haircut, which is slightly longer and less bowl-like.

[edit] Bowl cut in Popular Culture

There is also a Mr Bean episode in which Mr Bean places a bowl on a boy's head and shaves the remaining hair. This was just an example of a way to do a bowl cut.

In the manga and anime Naruto there is a sensei and a student with a bowlcut, Rock Lee, and Might Guy.

In the manga and anime "Hikaru no Go", Hikaru's rival, Akira Toya, sports a lengthy bowl cut.

In the cartoon Dexter's labratory dexter's nemesis and rival Mandark has a bowl cut.

The term "Bowl Head" has derived from this hairstyle.