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to have never before heard of the rule that girls and boys are supposed to part their hair on different sides?

94 replies

HugoTheHippo · 28/04/2014 12:11

DH informed me yesterday that boys/men part their hair on the left and girls/women (should) part their hair on the right. Apparently 'everyone knows this'. I have literally never heard of this before but have been sneakily checking out the hair-dos of strangers since then and it seems to be true! Am I the only one who doesn't know this vitally important fact, and WIBU to deliberately style my hair on the left now?

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DeWee · 28/04/2014 12:49

I have, granny used to say for boys: "Button on the right, parting on the left"
For girls: "Parting on the right, buttons on the left"
She used to say it while brushing out hair.

Ds thinks his is "don't care where the buttons are as long as someone else does them, and hair all over the place without a parting..."

sonlypuppyfat · 28/04/2014 12:53

Yes I know this, thought everyone had.

bigbadbarry · 28/04/2014 12:57

Posthoc I have a double crown and have settled on casual and disheveled as a style.
I've parted left, right and centre over the years, will just go away and quietly have an identity crisis.

OwlCapone · 28/04/2014 12:57

How about a centre parting?

OwlCapone · 28/04/2014 12:58

I had never heard of the I his until I read a resurrected zombie thread on MN only an hour ago.

BuzzardBird · 28/04/2014 13:01

Owl you are indeed wise Wink

I think it should be known that if you part your hair on the wrong side you will catch the gay.

KatieKaye · 28/04/2014 13:07

Hmmm - middle parting, eh? By that made up "rule" must be either asexual or bisexual!

missymarmite · 28/04/2014 13:15

Yes I knew this from childhood because I inherited a 'kink' in my hair which forces it to part in the right, from my DF. He used to say what a PITA it was when he was a kid in the 50s and 60s because he couldn't get it to part in the left which his correct for men.

GerundTheBehemoth · 28/04/2014 13:17

Mine parts on the left. I've never heard the 'rule' before. Apparently, nor has Moss:

to have never before heard of the rule that girls and boys are supposed to part their hair on different sides?
DeWee · 28/04/2014 13:56

Owl my Granny also used to say "hear a new phrase and you'll hear it again by evening".

Not sure if that was wise or just she had a lot of useless sayings. Grin

PostHocErgoPropterHoc · 28/04/2014 13:57

The problem with dd2's hair is it's still very fine and doesn't have the weight to force any kind of parting, even though it's quite long. I'm hoping it'll get thicker and a bit more workable, otherwise I'll just cut it short and she can have a mohican/fin, which is what it naturally wants to do :)

CheeryName · 28/04/2014 13:58

I never heard of that! There is some thing about buttons though, boys shirts button up the other side to girls. Or something...

Callani · 28/04/2014 13:59

I part mine on the left, so clearly I must be a lesbian...

ContentedSidewinder · 28/04/2014 14:07

Oh my GOD, my DH talks about this!

I think it is very very old fashioned that men part their hair on the left

You are meant to part it the way your crown swirls otherwise you are fighting nature.

ContentedSidewinder · 28/04/2014 14:09

Good lord, just realised that makes me a lesbian, that would make two in the family. Sister definitely doesn't part her hair on the left Grin nor does her wife

Shesparkles · 28/04/2014 14:10

I've heard of that, but I'm not sure where! I'm another with my parting on the 'wrong' side, but I have a double crown so I just go with it!
My hair being halfway down my back stops me being mistaken for a bloke Grin

DidoTheDodo · 28/04/2014 14:12

I'd quite forgotten this. It was around when I was a child (in the age of the dinosaur)

jenwa · 28/04/2014 14:13

What of you want a centre parting!!!Blush Not that I do!

Haha but yes I've heard it too. My daughters have them different sides but my DM once told me that one DD should have it the opposite and that she could tell that from birth which way it should have gone Confused anyway I ignored her as DDs had a bit of a double crown so it sat better another way and still does nowWink

thebodydoestricks · 28/04/2014 14:14

Ancient here and never heard that one.

HecatePropylaea · 28/04/2014 14:14

I have heard it, although I can never remember which way round it is 'supposed' to be. I also read that buttons and things are one way round for men and the other for women, but again, no idea which way it is.

ftr - I'm a woman and my hair is parted on the left.

Daft 'rule', isn't it? When you think about it. Laughable.

yourlittlesecret · 28/04/2014 14:18

So what happens if you do it the wrong way then?

CoffeeChocolateWine · 28/04/2014 14:28

Never heard of this either. And if that's the case my parting is on the wrong side...but it just kind of falls more naturally with my parting on the left.

DH has his parting on the left so he's got it 'right'. My DS has a cows lick on the right so it falls the 'wrong' way. DD has her parting the wrong side too.

So apparently only 1 out of 4 of us have the parting on the right side. Oh well...

ilovepowerhoop · 28/04/2014 14:32

my parting is on the left so I must be a boy! DS has no parting so must not be sure of his gender Grin

cashmiriana · 28/04/2014 14:32

DD2 has a double crown and I'd be happy to settle for it lying flat somehow, anyhow.

Mine naturally falls on the left. My grandad would probably have though that was another sign of me being a bit 'odd' (other evidence included being left handed and liking reading.)

ilovepowerhoop · 28/04/2014 14:33

What is the 'rule' for ear piercing in boys/men? I'm sure one is supposed to mean they are gay but cant remember which side it is supposed to be

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