BUTCH

WAX

My Dad's name was Silas but everyone called him Chappy.  He wore a butch haircut, high and tight military style until he was in his 80's when he let it grow a little bit.  I also had a butch haircut growing up...the style might have been called a flat top by then..but it was the same cut, high and tight military style.  In the 50's, you could use a big glob of Vaseline petroleum jelly to stiffen up the front part of your flat top, or, if you had 50 cents, your could buy a product called Butch Wax.  I still remember the Butch Wax smell and loved the way it worked.  You could buy it in a bottle or in a stick with a cap that had little bristles on it to work the wax through the front of your style.  The flat top later evolved into a complicated style called a skunk where the middle top of your head was almost shaved.  We all had skunks on the high school basketball team.  I also had a style called a Detroit with fenders. It was basically a flat top with long sides swept back and kept in place with another hair product from back in the day...Brylcream..just a little dab would do you...