Next time you pick up your Andis hair clippers and stand ready to give your boy a hair cut, you might like to reflect on other adults who have used them on the younger generation. Although the American inventor Leland is credited with inventing hair clippers in the 1800s, the idea of cutting boys hair is widespread. In modern Greece, for example, boy students had their hair cropped close with manual hair clippers for the first half of the 1900s, as a common practice. Since, this close cropping of hair in Greece was reserved as a sort of minor punishment for young troublemakers or prostitutes caught by the police, especially during the time of military rule from 1967-1973. Of course young solider recruits have endured a close shave for many years. Banned in Greece in 1982, it still holds in the US and Russia.