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Abowl cut is a simplehaircut where the front hair is cut with a straight fringe (seebangs) and the rest of the hair is left longer, the same length all the way around, or else the sides and back are cut to the same short length.[1] It is named so because in medieval times, when it was popular in Europe, a bowl would be placed on the head and then used as a cutting guide to trim the hair.[1][better source needed]
A 1920sSoviet Ukrainian poster; the man on the left sports a bowl cut.
Historically, the bowl cut was popular among common European and Asian men, being an easy neat cut done 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 shaved off.[2][failed verification] In some cultures it was a normal type of haircut. In other cultures the bowl cut was viewed as an attribute of poverty, signifying that the wearer could not afford to visit a barber.[1]
In the United States, the bowl cut was never particularly popular. At least as far back as the 1980s, the cut has been ridiculed by many. It is often mocked via internet memes.[3][4][5]
By 2015, the hairstyle was uncommon enough that its use by mass murdererDylann Roof was considered mildly noteworthy. TheAnti-Defamation League has documented itsmetonymic use by youngwhite supremacists, among whom it represents Roof andhis crimes in particular, and white supremacist ideology in general.[6] For example, a neo-Nazi group named itself the "Bowl Patrol" after Roof's bowl cut hairstyle; that group remained active as of a July 2020 exposé in theHuffington Post, five years after Roof's Charleston church shooting.[7]
The dictionary definition ofbowl cut at Wiktionary