Ah, the 1970s – a decade when grooming, coiffure, bodily hygiene and so forth was no longer the preserve of women.

These – plastered to the walls of male hair salons everywhere – were the overgrown, overblown now-try-it-on-your-own styles that men aspired to.

May we never see their like again.

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