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Sailor's Ponytail

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In times past, "long hair" for women meant long enough to sit on. "Short hair" for men, therefore, could get shoulder-length or longer. Sailors and other wanderers who spend long weeks away from ladies and barbers often wore low ponytails to keep their hair out of their way.
Characters who sport a sailor's pony tail are not necessarily Long Haired Pretty Boys, as their lengthy locks are not flowing and feminine. The Sailor's Ponytail is visual shorthand that indicates an adventurous and down-and-dirty character — but not, like Wild Hair, a separation from society altogether.
(Except that longer hair for men was pretty universal in 17th century Europe, and by the early 18th century most men had begun to tie their hair back or wear a wig styled with a 'queue'. It's true that many sailors carried on wearing a long pigtail after short hair had come back into fashion.)
Further, an actor playing a character with a Sailor's Ponytail is often wearing a wig or hair extensions because it can take several months to well over a year for a man with a contemporary short hairstyle to grow their hair long enough for it to be tied into a ponytail. In Real Life, that would be why a man would keep it even in civilization; the intermediate stage, long enough to get into the way but too short to pull back, could be extremely awkward.
Ever-popular hair style and genre/setting indicator for the Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
Compare to Tomboyish Ponytail and Samurai Ponytail. See also the Seadog Beard.
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Dietfried Bougainvillea from Violet Evergarden has one of these (Well, long braid rather than ponytail), even when on land. It seems he grew it in the navy then found that he liked it.
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Most of the sailor characters in The Liveship Traders, including the protagonist Althea, wear their hair this way as it's a fantasy version of Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
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Jackie from the Bloody Jack books initially cuts all of her hair off to pull off the Sweet Polly Oliver that gets the plot rolling. As she gets older, she grows her hair out into one of these, partly because it's expected of "young men" and partly so she can switch back into a girl when she wants to.
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PAW Patrol has Sid Swashbuckle, a pirate with a ponytail down just past his shoulderblades.
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Haven: Duke, the Venturous Smuggler who lives on his boat grows one of these over the course of seasons 3 and 4. He cuts it off in a fit of grief after the death of his Love Interest, Jennifer, symbolizing the return of his more closed-off personality from season 1 and 2, when he wore it short.
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Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is more sailing-oriented than the rest of the Pokémon films, and the movie-specific protagonist Jack Walker sports this kind of ponytail.
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Most of the crew in Master and Commander keep their hair in short ponytails.
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Mipps in the Doctor Syn ("The Scarecrow") series is a retired ship's carpenter who wears his hair in a tarred ponytail.
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In the French comic Barbe-Rouge, most of the sailors or pirates who appear sport a small ponytail, including the titular character and his son.
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Captain Smollett in Muppet Treasure Island has a white ponytail, which looks rather like a restrained version of the 18th century powdered wig. (And since he's Kermit the Frog, that's probably the most likely explanation.)
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Edward Kenway of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag keeps his hair in a low ponytail or, depending on outfit, a small bun and he is also a pirate.
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Roarke in the In Death series has longish hair which he normally wears loose, but when sitting down to do some intensive technical work he pulls it back in a stubby ponytail which the narration, via Eve's point of view, describes as making him look vaguely piratical.
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In The Owl House, Philip Wittebane wears his hair in a bushy ponytail. It helps that he comes from a time period where styles like it would be common.
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Both the Pirate Captain and the Pirate with a Scarf have those in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. The Pirate Captain's ponytail is as luxuriant as his beard, the Pirate with a Scarf's is a lot shorter and somewhat scruffier.
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Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet wears a ponytail. The film can be described as Treasure Island IN SPACE!. Jim is a boy searching for the treasure of the evil space pirate Flint.
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Subverted in Farscape where the Peacekeepers have these as standard (perhaps because Space Is an Ocean) but the effect is totalitarian rather than rebel—Officer Aeryn Sun has to start Letting Her Hair Down once she's forced to join the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
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In a Great Performances production of Twelfth Night Helen Hunt as Viola/Cesario wears her hair like this, as does her brother Sebastian (whom she is modelling herself after as Cesario).
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In Girl Genius, Airman Higgs ("The Unstoppable" Airshipman Higgs) wears one of these. As airship units are treated as analogous to naval ones (though seafaring definitely exists in this setting), it certainly qualifies as a Sailor's Ponytail.
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Royal Navy members shown fighting Capt. Storm back in the Golden Age of Piracy are depicted with short ponytails.
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In The Princess Bride, The Dread Pirate Roberts wears a ponytail.
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Pirates of the Caribbean:
Will Turner has a sailor's ponytail, along with other various pirates and sailors.
When Elizabeth pulls a Sweet Polly Oliver, she noticeably keeps a shortened pony tail instead of chopping all her hair off.
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Final Fantasy V's Sweet Pirate Oliver Faris Scherwiz wears her hair in a longer-than-normal version in the Yoshitaka Amano artwork.
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The vast majority of naval officers in Horatio Hornblower wear ponytails. Some lower-deck characters sport this hairstyle as well, but some of the hands have short hair.
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Captain K'nuckles from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack always (but rarely seen) sports a sailor's ponytail.
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In Rachel Griffin, Gaius is an example of the scruffy yet ready for action type; wearing his hair like this is one of the indications he is not quite the outcast loner Rachel initially assumes he is.
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Guybrush Threepwood, protagonist of the Monkey Island games, wears a ponytail. He wants to be a pirate.
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Koyuki in Sgt. Frog 2nd movie sports a long ponytail since she's at sea with Natsumi, Fuyuki and her friends.
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Klingon officer Worf of the Enterprise wears one of these starting in season 6's "Face of the Enemy". Fitting, given how (at least as far as the Federation's military culture is concerned) Space Is an Ocean.
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