Dot Wordsworth

The rise of the man bun, the Mancan and man boobs

Just at the moment, in the gender-role wars, ‘man’ is attached to more and more things

issue 28 November 2015

‘Ha, ha, ha,’ said my husband, as though he had learnt to laugh by reading Twitter. ‘Now they’ve got falsies.’

He was waving an article about clip-on man buns. A man bun is that top-knot that some young men began to sport, in proof that there is nothing too absurd for fashion.

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