Or, avoid all the hassle..
and....get a proper bloody hair cut!
When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
See I like the way you even know where they came from 
Like Helga says, us being females, we are clearly not 'authentic' looking soldiers but at least we do try to tuck away our tresses to look a bit more realistic.
My hair tucks up beautifully beneath my cap comforter. I have more trouble under a helmet as my hair is so thick it won't stay under without flopping or making the helmet not fit properly.
I think for those of us (boy or girl) who wish to have long hair, should do as most of us do and tuck up, plait/tie back for practical reasons more than anything really.
Anne
well said Anne
I also have issues when I put my helmet on 
it fits well under my field cap really well, but it was attempting a bid for freedom at wotan, I just suffered shoving it back up the helmet as I knew I'd be the clumsy oaf to bang my head and do myself a mischief if I put my field cap on in the tunnels 
Curious question probs wrong on here BUT tuff 
I was wondering if like today there is the issue of having hair too short ? (more historical context, I realise some people can't help their lack of hair or indeed their hair envy 
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I realise some people can't help their lack of hair or indeed their hair envy
Leave David alone!
Pish, I have more than enough hair - as 'those' pictures will illustrate... 
Matching collar and cuffs, Sturmbannfuhrer, you old arctic fox?
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
Hey, I was only joking about the scissors! I used to have long hair and you 'orrible unkempt slovenly specimens will eventually see the error of your ways and get a sensible short back and sides!
(I grew a david niven style "lip-weasel" for Dday, sadly I awoke yesterday to find it had crawled off during the night)
"Major Bernard Himmler, does the name mean anything to you?"
Won't see me chopping my hair off 
oooh no 
and ain't noone going to chop it off for me, its taking ages to grow it really long again
growing long hair chance would be a fine thing
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
in wwii there were approved haircuts, you'd get one on sign up.
In rear areas and europe having hair in certain styles i would imagine was as now a chargable offence.
Operationally i imagine ORs would have had a blind eye turned to shaved heads.
Generally uk forces kept the sides and back clippered with a couple of inches lenght on top, a marbles worth of brylcream and side parting were more or less regulation. Officers are not supposed to have clippered or shaved hair.
I think this in the western desert was ignored becasue of the heat and in the far east in the jungle ignored because cuts from shaving can become lethal.
Similarly UK forces are required ot shave once every 24 hours (the current excuse is that htis is to get a good respirator seal but thats bobbins as the navy use the same ressie as the amry and they dont need to shave and its been proven a days stuble provides the best seal.)
Officers and men are to be clean shaven but may grow a moustache (commonly started at the start of a campaign and known as a 'tour tasche), sgts in the pioneers mayhave full beards.
Colour/staff sgts are law unto themselves and i've seem them sporting napoleonic facial hair liek a lemmy from motorhead beard, technically not a beard as the chine is clear but very long sideburns linked to their moustache... nobody tells the colour or rsm to shave....
To my knowledge german soliders were not allowed their hair to touch their ears or collar but could oil it and part it or slick it all back or crop it.
Simiarly i believe beards were tolerated on active service especially in russia.
Beards were rare in russian service except with very old soldiers and moustaches were regualrly worn to save on razor blades and look more manly. Heads were routinely shaved at unti levle for sanitation reasons.
The us i know little about but know a clippered number 4 all over seems to have been acceptable in ORs and officers, i dont think beards were allowed.
A few (and its less than a platoon i believe) us airborne pathfinders in normandy shaved their hair into 'red indian' style mohawks and wore war paint, this allegedly disturbed the germans, i imagine such a'punk' look in 1944 would be very shocking.
I think i know too much abut hair cut regulations, probably on account of being charged for haivng an 'aggressive haircut' while in the infantry.
Current regulations forbid artificial colours, a 'step' or undercut (basically no wwii german haircut) or excessivley short or long hair, US flat tops are forwned upon too. Officers are expected to have medium length hair and a side parting...
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I have more trouble under a helmet as my hair is so thick it won't stay under without flopping or making the helmet not fit properly.
Yup, that my problem with my long hair.
But I don't understand all of this 'proper haircut' thing. Having short hair is a relatively new thing. Having long hair for a male being an un-normal sight has only been in-force for well under 100 years - otherwise it's been a perfectly normal thing! 
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
But I don't understand all of this 'proper haircut' thing. Having short hair is a relatively new thing. Having long hair for a male being an un-normal sight has only been in-force for well under 100 years - otherwise it's been a perfectly normal thing!
Not for WW2 though....but then again this isn`t reenactment 
But I don't understand all of this 'proper haircut' thing. Having short hair is a relatively new thing. Having long hair for a male being an un-normal sight has only been in-force for well under 100 years - otherwise it's been a perfectly normal thing!
Not for WW2 though....but then again this isn`t reenactment
Long hair for men actually goes out of fashion about 1805, especially in the army, the infantry before then had to by regulations have their hair in a pony tail and 'whitened' often with flour and water, this tended to attract rats in camp while on campaign and the practice was discontinued.
In the napoleonic era and the 19th century it was rare for british men to have hair longer than the collar. In america long hair wa sacceptable upt to about 1900 i believe.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Not for WW2 though....but then again this isn`t reenactment
Indeed, it's just that it makes my Boingy Helmet far more boingy than it should be!
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I used to do both...
Long hair with an undercut, loads of my airsoft and re-enactment pics where i am wearing a beret, soft hat or helmet and appear to have short or shave hair its very long on top.
It pretty short for me these days..
Anyway like i can talk i usually have red, blue or white hair (although im not patriotic enough to have all three at once)
Back on topic....
I loved D-day its shame i didnt get to see more of the allies socially but i guess we knew that when we booked in.
In fact i enjoyed it enough to compleley forget i have knackered back until i got home, just about back to normal now after a visit to the chiro today.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I used to do both...
Long hair with an undercut, loads of my airsoft and re-enactment pics where I am wearing a beret, soft hat or helmet and appear to have short or shave hair its very long on top.
It pretty short for me these days..
Anyway like I can talk I usually have red, blue or white hair (although im not patriotic enough to have all three at once)
Back on topic....
I loved D-day its shame I didnt get to see more of the allies socially but I guess we knew that when we booked in.
In fact I enjoyed it enough to compleley forget I have knackered back until I got home, just about back to normal now after a visit to the chiro today.
dude you know way to much about hair
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
S'pose it's time I put my thoughts down. It's a little long winded, but it's late, and i'm under the influence of Stella 
Friday night? Fucking mint 
, but i will NEVER EVER entertain an insane idea from ANYONE when i'm shitfaced ever again. I blame it on the red wine. And the beers I had earlier. And the Scotch that went around.
Saturday. The walk to the beach did not start in an auspicious way. Probably a good idea to give a map and compass to the marshal that accompanied us (not his fault, nice guy, a few of us chatted to him on Saturday night round the fire, that is, when we could get a word past a morphine fuelled Gadge LOL )
The play on the beach was certainly "interesting". Personally, I wouldn't have done a stop after the initial assault, i would have far preferred that the Germans had just died then rolled back to the next position. It would have made gameplay a little more fluid IMHO. Hosing Yanks coming out of the landing craft was a once-in-an-airsofting-lifetime experience. Gives you serious respect for those that did it for real. Bollocks of steel I reckon.
Things got *interesting* when we did the last section at the back of the dunes. For a start, i noticed a slightly less-than-subtle change in the noise coming from the '42. Turns out one of the top-of-the-line-and-not-fucking-cheap bearings decided to disintegrate! (well, thats another thing on the "to do" list) On that section the Axis thoroughly trounced the Allies. This, in my opinion, was down to two things. The first is that the majority of the Axis know each other, so communication is so much easier, the other was that we had a very good balance of long range bolt-action weapons, and short-range high ROF MP40's and the like.
Now we have the woodland section. VERY interesting site to play, the ups-and-downs make it far more interesting than the average type of Forestry Commission woodland. The Pyro? once again Tony excelled. Those Arty guns were fucking mental when they went off at night. The muzzle flash was awesome.
Sunday. Felt like shit (nothing to do with alcohol, had a biatch of a headache, and even the prescription stuff I knocked back wasn't doing much to it), so I didn't play much. The game being called early can be seen as either a positive or negative thing, but it would have been nice to have the complete time so the Germans could have counter attacked the fort.
When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
Looked at my M41 last night - full of scorch marks! Looks 'aged' now.
thanks for the write up - an interesting read 