hairstyle fashion

A young man wearing a Mohawk. The Mohawk (known as a "Mohican" in British/Commonwealth English) is a hairstyle. In the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaved leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the centre. Mohawks became common in punk subculture in the early 1980s and were then adopted by Rivetheads with various other groups, becoming more diverse in style.