The Mohawk Returns to TA

October 21, 2009 - 10:24 PM by Jessica

An Israeli with a Mohawk at Nitzanim Beach (Photo credit: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

An Israeli with a Mohawk at Nitzanim Beach (Photo credit: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

As the recent owner of an old-but-new-for-me haircut — a modified mushroom, last seen on my head in 1983-1984 — I’ve been getting many comments about my newly shorn locks, probably because they’re shorter than they’ve been for some time. One friend told me, “You look ten years younger.” Which could mean just that, that I look ten years younger, but I sort of felt that it implied that I had a solid ten years to rid myself of, and now that I’d done just that, what have I been looking like for the last few years??

But given the centrality of hair in my life for the last week, I paid special attention to a Haaretz Gallery article this week about the increase of Mohawk haircuts on the streets of the Big Orange. It’s a look that attracts attention, as pointed out by Haaretz writer Tahel Frosh — whether it’s a modified, messed up or done up Mohawk. And given the recent harkening back to the 80s in the fashion world, it’s not a big surprise that this particular Punk style — and my mushroom head — is back.

According to stylist Maayan Goldman, the fashion statement being made by the current Israeli variation says, “I am not radical in any way, but I am here. I have fashion sense, but I’m not going to die for it.”

I mean, after all, it is just hair. It grows back.

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