Being an inveterate observer of the social scene, I have for some time noticed the spread of bald heads in London.
Many of these shining pates belong to young men who must spend a fortune keeping their heads completely hairless, but they are not alone
because I noticed in a bar yesterday three middle-aged men proudly displaying gleaming skulls to all and sundry.
Now they may, of course, have been somewhat follically challenged and decided to make a virtue of necessity by going the whole hog, but it caused me to ponder the peculiar nature of these hairless ones, because it seems but a short while ago that men would wear wigs or toupées and spend their money at trichologists rather than be seen as bald.
I don't know if this behaviour is noticeable elsewhere but I'm wondering how it came into being.