Short hair was fairly popular throughout the 60s but the 70s and 80s favored different hairstyles.

1940s hairstyle for country men. Women wore longer styles in the 1930s and 1940s but short hair made a comeback when Audrey Hepburn sported a pixie cut a very short wispy haircut in the 1953 film Roman Holiday. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s to the 1960s. Men with curvy or wavy hair had the choices of straightening the hair with hot irons usually only used in the movie industry or with lots and lots of heavy oil.

One of the most iconic 1940s hairstyles this do reflects the optimism and high spirits of the post-World War II era. Most curly haired men let their curls bounce free with only a light layer of brilliantine to smooth back fly-aways and provide soft shape. It became popular in the 1990s and remains so to this day.

This hairstyle called for a man with naturally kinky hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene a homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes. The applier had to wear gloves and the solution.