CROWNING GLORY

ONE MAN’S JOURNEY BACK FROM BALDNESS IS A LESSON IN SOCIETY’S STRICT EXPECTATIONS OF MALE BEAUTY

by neal broverman

Chris Schroder had his best hair day in seventh grade — and it was all downhill after that. The future journalist and publishing entrepreneur began shedding his locks soon after and, by his early 30s, his follicles were confined to above his neck and ears. He worked to grow comfortable with his baldness. While serving as creative director of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he shaved his head, receiving compliments from gay coworkers on his well-proportioned pate. Still, he felt slighted by his retreating tresses, believing his employers, romantic interests, and the public at large gravitated to his dome over all else. At age 62, Schroder traveled to Istanbul to get a hair transplant and, soon after, chronicled his lifetime hair journey in the memoir Headscape: How a Bald Guy Replanted His Hair and…

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