HEALTH Hair today - Gone tomorrow? RICHARD BERCUSON
Other than that tawdry time, my style has been pretty much the same. I haven’t even tried to cover the bare spot at the back. I hesitate to say it’s a bald spot because it’s not really bald. Just thin. It’s stayed that way for years. Back to le Dauphin. Mr. Trudeau
Take a look at my photo on this page.
Don’t be distracted by the endearing smile and ageless features. Focus on my hair. Now move in
closer...not that close...you’re making me uncomfortable. Do you notice the two thin wisps inching down from the top? Those, dear reader, are the middle-age
equivalent of what our newly anointed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wears. The little tufts were neither errant nor wind-blown. They were a deliberate intent to give me a look that says: “This relaxed chap still has most of his hair as evidenced by the bits that sometimes defy brushes and combs.” Having smartly brushed hair was always
supposed to be the proper look for men. You can’t see my part either because it’s darkened by the background. It’s there. Always has been. I recall Dad bringing me to Julio the barber in Montreal’s Snowdon Shopping Centre for a right proper haircut. Short, even, brushed, parted on the left, without a hint of sideburns. I may have been eleven years old, but really, was there any other proper way to do it? There was a time in my 20s when I let
the hair grow wild. It sprouted in various directions, covered my ears, and curled up angrily at the back, spilling over shirt collars.
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was undoubtedly elected last November as Canada’s Supreme Being by virtue of his hair. No question about it. During the campaign, a Conservative party attack ad featured four executive-looking types examining his resume and declaring the fellow too inexperienced to be worthy of the throne. Then one fellow quipped, “Nice hair though.” Which was true. The chap sports a tousled and teased look he carries with aplomb. I recall watching him at the
Remembrance Day ceremony, his first major public appearance after the coronation. The WE Day show a couple of days before doesn’t really count since it was before a rather large “classroom” of a gazillion school kids, most of whom share a similar look, albeit unintentionally. On November 11, there was Mr.
Trudeau departing the scene, but first glad- handing fans in front of the Chateau Laurier. I wondered how many of the throngs would have just died to touch his coif, let alone tug at it, to see just how nice it was. It does indeed seem to be a lovely head of hair. Not at all like his predecessor’s, which appeared like it had been strategically dropped into place. This brings me to our own hair. Which
of us of a certain age would even dare carry that same tousled look? Trudeau the Younger is 43; his Papa was 49 when first elected. But Trudeau the Elder didn’t have much hair back then and combed forward selected strands. Didn’t seem to bother women who fawned over him like he was a rock star. Ask Barbra Streisand.
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