Mánička is a Czech term used for young people with long hair, typically men, in Czechoslovakia through the 1960s and 1970s. Long hair for males during this time was considered an expression of political and social attitudes in communist Czechoslovakia.
Screenshot from an episode of the propagandistic TV series Thirty Cases of Major Zeman, showing "máničky" as a harmful, criminal and drug-using social class.
The Plastic People of the Universe, veterans of the Czech cultural underground scene. Their performances were regularly visited by the long-haired "máničky" in the 1960s and 1970s.
Long hair is a hairstyle where the head hair is allowed to grow to a considerable length. Exactly what constitutes long hair can change from culture to culture, or even within cultures. For example, a woman with chin-length hair in some cultures may be said to have short hair, while a man with the same length of hair in some of the same cultures would be said to have long hair.
Portrait of Julie Manet by Renoir, 1894
A man with shoulder length hair, 1659
Charles I with long, natural hair, by Daniel Mytens c. 1631.
Finnish cello player Perttu Kivilaakso with mid-back length hair