Normally we use this blog to tell our gentle readers what to think and why to think it. Today we reverse roles. Teach us, O blessed flock!
Specifically, we are ignorant of a cultural phenomenon that has recently entered our consciousness, namely, that young men have taken to combing the hairs on top of their head from the left and right sides toward the middle, so that the ends of the hairs stand upright, perpendicular to the ground in a ridge that runs along the circumference that intersects the nose and the spinal cord. We note that these same young men may have instructed their hairstylists to leave the hairs of the central top circumference longer for this very purpose.
We'd call this cut a "Mohawk," but we recall that that hairstyle involved shaving the head except for the central circumference. This doesn't. Further, Mohawks sported hair ridges that were generally wider, if memory serves.
If we were naming it, we'd probably call this style a "Shark Fin," though in all SWNIDish honesty it really should be called a "Silly Haircut."
We would supply an illustrative picture, but we don't know what keywords to use to find an image.
So our questions are these:
1. What is this hairstyle actually called?
2. Where in the world did it come from?
3. Why would anyone bother to do that with his hair?
4. Are women doing this too?
N.B. that we have noticed this style as of late we have observed various students and alumni of our august institution of higher education. We are committed to the maxim that when a trend reaches our students and alumni, it is by definition out of style. More simply, when a trend is spotted at 2700 Glenway, it is at that moment untrendy. We encourage comments on the mindset of CCU students and alumni who pursue such trends despite this immutable truth.
5 comments:
My humble contributions to your questions:
1) Last I heard, it was termed a "Fauxhawk" simply because of the length maintained on the sides vis-a-vis the shaved look. Then again, the name may have changed as such things tend to happen.
2) I have no solid clue; but there is a remote possibility that I will leave unnamed on this blog.
3) Partly due to what is left unnamed; though, it may just be a popularity thing--i.e., it's fashionable right now (even on a trend-delayed campus)
4) I worked with a girl at a coffee shop who wore such a doo, and surprisingly she could pull it off quite well.
1) Fauxhawk is correct, however it's also known as the Hoxton fin.
2) David Beckham in the 2002 World Cup.
3) Because David Beckham did it.
4) Yes, but to a lesser extent.
I'd like to see SWNID in a fauxhawk.
Lest there be any doubt, it is the Fauxhawk.
But I post a comment to acknowledge this sentence: "We are committed to the maxim that when a trend reaches our students and alumni, it is by definition out of style.
I would normally agree, but the advent of the internet has brought the student body yet one step closer to fashion relevancy.
I'm with you on the "silly haircut" part. Various students, both male and female, have been wearing it for a couple of years on the campus where I teach (which is a liberal arts college). It is also quite trendy to use some strange hair color with this style. It is more popular among males than females. I can only hope that you are right that when it hits CCU that it is becoming out of style. That means that I won't have to look at it much longer on our campus!
I don't think this hairstyle is on it's way out so quickly.
I just saw some kid on Rachael Ray's Show with one.
I laughed.
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