Relax. The gaping ponytail-shaped vacuum left by Jared Leto’s recent haircut – from man-bun to plaits to blond crop – has been filled. Hello the rat-tail, as seen on Shia LaBeouf in Los Angeles, New York and last weekend’s SXSW festival. It caused onlookers to balk, and pest control company Terminix to offer a $10,000 charitable donation if he chopped it off.
Male hair has become playful new territory for the likes of actors such as Leto and LaBeouf, but while the rat-tail (1980s favourite of everyone from Rodney Trotter to Corey Haim) might be a less-than-welcome revival, it’s bedding in nicely, appearing on Rihanna in 2013, Argentina’s Rodrigo Palacio and now in the current Cottweiler campaign.
