Signs of the Apocalypse

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The male top knot is a trend that just keeps on giving. A photographer at The Awl snapped a handful of dudes around NYC with their hair piled into a little bun on top of their head (to be fair, some of these are just regular man buns). "The male topknot style runs the gamut from the sloppy—"Oh I'm just late to yoga"—to the predatory. ...Our research shows that it's particularly attractive to men with slippery white-person hair, but does excellent things for people of all hair types." [The Awl]