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Haircut: 'chili-bowl', 'pudding-basin', 'pot', what else?



 
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Haircut: 'chili-bowl', 'pudding-basin', 'pot', what else? Sun Feb 04, 2007 13:53 pm  Haircut: 'chili-bowl', 'pudding-basin', 'pot', what else?
 

Hi

The reason why I ask is the sentence ‘That time he had a pudding-basin haircut’.

In Russian it is traditionally called just pot haircut.

Wikipedia (Bowl cut) also adds beach cut and mushroom cut (that I’ve never heard of), but doesn’t ever mention 'pudding-basin'.

How do you call the cut now, when 'pudding basin' became rather out-of-date thing and people can afford himself/herself to visit a stylish barber, at least sometimes?

Or, maybe, 'pudding-basin' is just used to specially underline 'simplicity' and… 'non-U'-ness (can I say so?)
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Haircut: 'chili-bowl', 'pudding-basin', 'pot', what else? Sun Feb 04, 2007 15:20 pm  Haircut: 'chili-bowl', 'pudding-basin', 'pot', what else?
 

Hi,

'Pudding basin' haircut still obtains. And if you have one, you feel a right pudding!

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