The dreadlocks look itself is very tacky and unclean looking. This is true. It may surprise you how many college kids want to walk around looking like Bob Marley but with a mouth full of braces. The main difference being that unlike a real Rastafarian, the student’s marijuana is a ‘prescription’ for a particular ailment.
Clean hair is shiny.
Dreads are always dull, dusty, greasy and mangy looking.
Why anyone would want that ‘effect’ is beyond me.
I never cared for Komondor or Puli dogs, for the same reason.
You could not force me to touch dreads.
“It may surprise you how many college kids want to walk around looking like Bob Marley “
Actually. . .
“It may surprise you how many college kids want to walk around acting black”
And forty years go I remember white kids sporting AFRO hair styles.
My thought has always been that if you have photos of yourself taken, dress nice. If you dress “cool” in ten years that “coolness” will make you look like a clown.