Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a form of skinhead n. (4) whose hair is grown slightly longer than the usual absolute bald look and thus presents a slight fuzz, somewhat reminiscent of suede.

1970		Time 8 June 37: The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers—with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a trifle longer, they refer to themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorising such menacing types as hippies.
1982		Dly Register (Red Bank, NJ) 27 June 30/4: Television cameras picked out a bare-chested ‘suedehead’ ( hair aslightly longer than a nearly naked skinhead).
1992		I. Rankin Strip Jack 268: ‘Hiya, baldie,’ was the perennial greeting, even when the skinhead had become a suedehead.
1996		A. Close Official and Doubtful 53: Most of us were Grebos, or Skins or Suedes.
2001		Indep. Rev. 25 June 7: I was a suedehead [...] Your hair was a bit longer than a skin, that sort of thing.
2004		(con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 54/2: Suedeheads were a more dapper, less aggressive looking lot than the skins.
2014		Vancouver (BC) 8 May 5/2: We want skinheads, suedeheads, big hair, bad hair, punk, Trump, mullet, mohawk, wigs and toupees.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 118: They look [...] like a couple of suedehead cabbages soaked in lager.
2002		Sun. Indp. (Dublin) Living 6 Oct. 5/3: Suedehead hair and bomber jackets still look cool.