Butch Wax is quite a bit more waxy and far less greasy than pomade; it was made for the crew cuts popular in the '50s and early '60s, to make the hair stand up. But it works to keep 3/4" long hair down, too. Pomade was basically scented Vaseline.
I am old enough, and lived in places that were backward enough, to have used real pomade -- as an 11 year old boy in Bangalore in 1966, when I started getting fashion conscious and let my hair grow out to combable length (1.5") instead of the #2 guard buzz cuts my father would give my brother and I every 2 weeks in the bathtub. Bangalore in 1966 was like the US -- or better, Britain -- in 1950*, and you could still buy locally manufactured, florally-scented grease for your hair. I thought it was stylin'. *Long before it became part of the Indian Silicon Valley it had been a British Indian Army cantonment town (3,000 feet above sea level, thus a bit cooler in the horrible hot and immediately pre-monsoon seasons); in 1966 it still had something of this flavor, rather mildewed. On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:00 AM Benz, Sunnyvale, CA <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, is butch wax different from pomade? > > I haven't had a super-short haircut since I was 12 or 13, when I got > totally buzzed (shorter than crew cut), together with a friend, on a dare > from another friend. Yeah, stupid things teens do… > > I used beeswax to waterproof the Brompton bag that I made from Joann > Fabric heavyweight cotton canvas. I was surprised at how much beeswax the > fabric absorbed, once heated up with a hairdryer. It took almost a > fist-sized amount and didn't even exhibit the sheen I've seen on > commercially treated cotton (like on some Filsons), much less extrude a > surface layer that would crack when the underlying fabric is flexed (as I > had feared). It did bead and shed water like a duck, and that's all that I > cared about. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ee1f3c0c-d905-4c3c-9154-3bb84140ecc9o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ee1f3c0c-d905-4c3c-9154-3bb84140ecc9o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguP06%3Dr%2BySbBjo%3DgwZxSE%2B0aF6%2BGO-boBAnLJ9chgcJpA%40mail.gmail.com.
