The Queue was forced upon the Han-Chinese, and used as a symbol of domination, when the Manchus conquered Han territories and replaced the Ming Dynasty with the Qing in 1644. It’s commonly linked with an area in China previously referred to as Three North-East Provinces, or Manchuria. The Queue, in contrast, shaves the front part of the hair off. Long hair had always been customary for the Han Chinese as a sign of virility and beauty. Much has been written about the male hair tradition The Queue: a male hairstyle specific to regions in and around China and broadly adopted from the early seventeenth century. Bands like The Young Charlatans, La Femme and Boys Next Door (Nick Cave) played at the Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda where the culture had a strong following. The Melbourne punk culture of the 1980s also introduced a DIY-ness to the City’s creativity that many believe thrives today. Hairstyles were dramatically non-conformist, like this student Mohawk, or even asymmetrical coloured spikes (Liberty spikes). The fashion aesthetic spilled over into the 1980s combining fetish leather wear and studs with working class simplicity like boots, jeans and a white t-shirt. The early punk music scene in Australia screamed out for a more progressive country, challenging the decade long leadership of orthodox Christian State Premier Sir Joh Bjelke Peterson in Brisbane, where the scene thrived. Bands like The Sex Pistols took a punk attitude to the world, giving the finger to the hippy era and concurrently the conservatism of Thatcher-England. The modern Mohawk in all its varieties is commonly linked with the punk scene, and emerged during the mid-1970s and symbolised a movement against the political conservative establishment. The Mohawk hairstyle gives reference to the Mohawk nation, an Indigenous people from the East Coast of North America and Canada who plucked out their hair except for a square piece of long hair on their head. By the late 1970s the fashion for long hair had crossed into mainstream fashion and was not indicative of political beliefs, but a matter of personal style. Their long hair sometimes resulted in them being shunned from Returned Services League clubs. Some Vietnam veterans – many of whom were conscripted – grew their hair long when they returned in an effort to disassociate themselves from the unpopular war. Many in the anti-Vietnam war movement grew their hair long as a visible rejection of the short Buzz Cut style sported by soldiers. Un-styled hair became a powerful symbol of the ‘hippy’ counter-culture and a sharp contrast to the shorter, controlled styles of the previous generation. Feminism inspired women to grow their body hair as a symbol of the equality and freedom they hoped to achieve. Long as God can grow it" (James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Hair: The Musical, 1967). Young people involved in the protest movements of the 1960s used head hair, body hair and facial hair as a symbol of their political and ideological beliefs.
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