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

[HugoTheHippo]

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?

Another woman who parts her hair on the left here, it's just where it naturally parts, it would be very uncomfortable to force it the other way. My two dds also part on the left. I've never heard of that rule.

What a load of old bollocks. As if all the gender specific toys and clothes aren't enough.

DD's parting is on her left. There it will stay.

Pah! I say.

(Also don't think I'd heard it before but sounds like something my Nan - who would be 102 by now - would say).

does he think people will catch gay if they part their hair on the wrong side ?

DD's hair parts on the left - because that's where it parts! Mine parts in the middle - what does that make me, according to your DH - a hermaphrodite?

FIL told me this - he asked me why I'd parted DS hair like a girl?! It's just the way it falls to be honest, but every time DS stays at PILs, he comes home with his hair parted the right way - it's so silly!

Never heard that one. Always taught to part my hair where my parting fell. Grew up with a centre parting, but have since discovered a low one on the left and a higher one on the right.

I've heard of this. I think it's just one of those conventions like buttons on jackets which isn't taken too seriously any more.

Mine parts on the left naturally. As did DH's . DS has never really had a parting.

But I have heard this. It's very very old fashioned and I remember something worse - I have a recollection of my grandad commenting that an effeminate man parted his hair on the wrong side.

Im 37 and ive heard this when i was in school. I dont take notice of it though.

Never heard of it and I switch the side for my parting every so often, what must the neighbours think? (my natural parting gets more white hairs!)

Not very old fashioned if you look at Victorian photos cos there is no evidence of the "rule" being rigidly applied.

Wow - I learn something new every day on mumsnet! Mine is on the left.

Heard that as a child, and I won't be seeing sixty again. DH must have had an old-fashioned family.

I was told this when I was about 10-ish. I thought it was bollocks then I still do at the ripe old age 46.

I wonder, now that you've raised he optic OP, if it is/was connected to the buttoning up a bloke's shirt and a laydee's blouse?

the topic.

That just isn't a thing.

Hair naturally parts itself after a certain length and that is where the parting should be, generally speaking.

Mines parted on the left.

It is something I was told by a dinner lady at primary school when I was a child. I remember laughing and saying it was daft because it didn't matter. Boys are still boys and girls are still girls.

He's right.

Isn't it the same way buttons work? Suits etc? Have you really never seen it?

Have you never looked at a suit?

To clarify, by "he's right" I meant he's right it's a phrase. No idea if everyone did it or just posh ones.

Struggling I was told not to wear green and red together.

Never heard this! Fascinating.

Mine will not part on the right for anything. I wish it would, because somehow I think I look a lot better with a right part as compared to a left. But it refuses. I see from this thread that I'm not alone.

Yep, according to DM (sadly no longer with us) this is correct.

And you can tell Hitler was evil because "his hair was parted on the wrong side"

I didn't know this
I did know this buttonholes though because of what my lecture said
Men's to left and women to the right as women are always right

Well, it's good to know I'm not alone! I don't think DH had really given it much thought - he was just repeating something his mum had told him. The thing is, he doesn't have a parting at all - he just has a sort of fluffy mess...

I'm going to experiment with a left parting tomorrow...

Never heard this of this either.