I dug it. His mother was, like, "I don't get it".
Gunsmith's hair, a beautiful, thick, vari-blonde mane was mid-back length until his very late 30's. I'd braid'n'band it for him when he had I-need-nothing-in-my-way work to do. Eventually, he banded it at his neck every day and it got to be a hassle, so he was impatient to cut it off and did so before it got long enough to be saved for a wig for cancer patients.
I was sorry to see it go, but, you know what? The nape of his neck is even sexier.