Subcultures and music

Punks, mods, skinheads, rockers, hip hop and K-pop. 23 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.

Subcultures and music scenes have produced some of the boldest hairstyles of the past century. Teddy boys wore greased quiffs and ducktails, mods neat short cuts, skinheads close crops, punks mohicans and liberty spikes, goths teased black hair, and hip hop the hi-top fade. In Czechoslovakia, long hair on young men was seen as rebellion. K-pop now spreads hair trends across Asia and the world.

Rock and roll to punk

In the 1950s, young men in Britain and America copied the greased pompadour and ducktail of rock and roll stars such as Elvis Presley. In the 1960s mods wore sharp short cuts and the Beatles' mop-tops were mocked as long. In the 1970s punks cut, dyed and spiked their hair; the mohican became the symbol of punk, and the Misfits' devilock, a long forelock over short sides, became a symbol of horror punk.

Hip hop and beyond

In the late 1980s hip hop artists made the hi-top fade famous, and barbers cut lines and designs into the sides. Grunge favoured long, unwashed hair; boy bands spread frosted tips in the late 1990s. In communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and 1970s, long-haired young men, the máničky, were stopped and sometimes forcibly shorn by police. Today K-pop stars, with their dyed colours and soft perms, set trends from Seoul to São Paulo.