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If you were born before 1995, some part of your brain will have kept most of Beckham’s hairstyles on file, each one perfectly encapsulating the trend of the time in the dirty-blonde tresses of one of football’s biggest star. Like a Rolodex of regrettable – back then, relatively iconic – choices, we saw everything from skinhead David, Mohican David, greasy ponytail David and frosted tips David. And then there was canerows David .
Ah, those canerows. That oft-debated, intricate and irresistible style. A craft perfected by black people but more often highlighted inand racist school policies. A hairdo that, back then, didn’t raise as much of a stink as it would if Becks had chosen to wear it today – because fewer black people were in positions to criticise it and be taken seriously.
Yet, 20 years after those fuzzy, blonde, straight-back plaits made their debut in a meeting with, of all people, Nelson Mandela, Beckham just“People ask if I have any regrets about my hairstyles and while I don’t regret any of them, I do sort of regret the cornrows,” he said in an interview with“I had them put in on the Saturday and on the Monday I flew to South Africa with the England team for a match. I got to meet the great Nelson Mandela.
I mean, I get it. His choice to have a hairdresser scrape his straight tresses into a style that black hair effortlessly contains felt akin to the level of cringe I feel when I see sore-scalped little white girls abroad, struggling with the tightness of the temporary holiday hair-dos they forced their parents to let them have. Harmless, perhaps. But so, so wrong.
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