The Most Popular Men's Haircuts in Singapore

The short back and sides date back to the Roman empire, as the regulation haircut for legionaries. Besides preventing the spread of lice, short hair and a clean-shaven face prevented the enemy from grabbing a soldier by the beard. By the first century AD, Roman hairstyles were imitated by non-Roman subjects who admired the civilization that Rome brought. Examples include the Gallo-Romans and Romanized Jews like Saint Paul seeking to distinguish themselves from traditionalists for whom hair cutting was forbidden. The regular haircut, worn with a long beard, made a comeback during the Renaissance due to European mens haircut Singapore newfound fascination with rediscovered classical artifacts. It was revived for a second time during the Regency era of c.1810-1830 as dandies abandoned the impractical and expensive powdered wigs in response to William Pitt the Younger's hair powder tax.

During the Gay Nineties, the regular haircut gradually replaced the longer hair and muttonchop sideburns fashionable since the 1840s until, by 1910, it had become the norm for professional mens haircut Singapore An extreme version is known as the undercut was regulation for British and German soldiers during World War I and World War II. The regular haircut remained fashionable in America throughout the 1950s and 1960s due to its association with the upper-class Ivy League fashion and underwent a second revival among the early 1980s preppy subculture in reaction to the androgynous shag and mod haircuts of the 1970s. In the present day, the short back and sides continue to be worn by many professional mens haircut Singapore, while the related undercut has been appropriated by the hipster subculture royalhairstudio.com.sg .

A regular haircut is a mens haircut Singapore and boys' hairstyle that has hair long enough to comb on top, a defined or deconstructed side part, and a short, semi-short, medium, long, or extra long back and side. The style is also known by other names including taper cut, regular taper cut, side-part, and standard haircut; as well as short back and sides, business-man cut, and professional cut, subject to varying national, regional, and local interpretations of the specific taper for the back and sides.