The half-pone and those man enough to wear it
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080913.RUSSELL13/TPStory/Entertainment9/14/2008
Dear Mr. Smith: What's with guys wearing long hair and pulling it back
into a girly half-ponytail - you know, just the top part? Do you
approve?
You've noticed this coiffure perhaps more on tough guys than on
hipsters - on guys in European soccer jerseys, maybe on construction
workers in tank tops. It's an extremely feminine hairstyle that only
the most confident attempt.
There is no name for it as yet, as far as I know: Let's call it the half-pone.
It occurs when you have long hair and you pull back just the bangs and
the top part into a small ponytail, leaving the sides and back hanging
free. Women, you know the style because it's how you have your hair in
all your elementary-school yearbook photos.
We might call it the samurai, too: Swordsmen in period-setting Asian
martial arts movies wear it to make them look medieval and sensitive.
(They might even braid the resulting tail.)
