When did the Shape Up Start(spin-off)

[Ill-Mind]

Breh is talking about a crisp lining/line-up, not a fro shape up. Line ups in general started in the 80s, didn't really flourish until the 90s.

 

[UserNameless]

y'all nikkas way off. In 1878 clarence jackson returned home from a night out in the big apple disappointed he aint get no bytches. He started thinking of ways to stand out from other men and while thinking he was rubbing a knife used to cut up apples across his head. He was startled by the sound of a horse buggy overturning causing his hand to slip and create a crisp lineup.

 

[TRFG]

I'm learning something today cuz in NYC this is a shape up

U come in looking like this

but u leave looking like this

are ya'll saying they call that a "line up" where ya'll are from?





In NYC a line up is this:

U come in looking like this..

and leave like this

My nikka that's a haircut

 

[Max Goonberg]

This thread is like hidden colors for hairlines.

 

[New Username]

Harlem

 

[Logic Reigns Supreme]

This thread is like hidden colors for hairlines.

Hidden Hairlines.

 

[King Jae]

Hidden Hairlines.

 

[L&HH]

That might be it.

Line up = when u make the hairline and edges look neat and sharp

shape up = when u have hair but its cropped or trimmed to look neat

Your first definition is what we call a shapeup. Your second definition isn't even something we have a word for. It's already understood when you sit in the chair. as in if you just ask for a shapeup then the barber evens out whatever hair you have and then shapes up your hairline. If you ask for an actual haircut then that too is understood that they trim everything evenly and to the hair level of your request (0, 1, 2, fade, temp fade, etc).

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

I remember reading an earlier thread on thecoli and I think the most dapped answer was Nas.

Delusional

I think it started in the 80s.

 

[Clark Griswold]

LINE UP OR EDGE UP.

SHAPE UP IS THE HAIR CUT PORTION.

HI TOPS AND AFROS GET SHAPED UP.



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Highly accurate

We say "edge" down South.

 

[Clark Griswold]

Crispy line ups with the t-liners didn't come into vogue until the late 80s... high-top fade era... east coast niccas started it too...

 

[MrPentatonic]

This topic would make a great documentary, surprised it ain't been done yet

 

[Clark Griswold]

If you think about it music had a big influence over our hairstyles...

The process was popular until the 60s... then came naturals in the mid 60s all the way until the early 80s... then the Jheri curl until hip hop came...

 

[BushidoBrown]

Harlem

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

A line isn't a shape.