Maddy Wiederkehr, 11, who lives in Westchester County, has been putting her hair up in a tidy Aly Raisman-style topknot since watching the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Her first stop after returning from summer camp on Sunday was the Cozy Cuts for Kids salon on the Upper East Side. She got a professional's take on her new favorite style. "I like that it's smooth," she said. "There's no bumps. It's perfect."
Gymnastics dictates that hair be neat and pulled back from the face. The way a gymnast accomplishes this is a matter of taste. In Rio, the go-to looks have been the French-braid-into-a-ponytail worn by Simone Biles and Madison Kocian; the Aly-knot; and the traditional scrunchied ponytail.
"Hair is how you stand out, because in competition we all have to wear the same leotard," said Ella Wilson, a 12-year-old gymnast from Brooklyn who has taken to wearing the braid-into-ponytail of late. "It's a style that flares-up something simple."
Her soccer-player brother, Liam, 14, is a fan of the man bun seen widely at the Olympics on soccer and basketball players, and most notably on the British gymnast Louis Smith. Fans cheekily blamed his knot for a pommel horse fall and his team's subsequent fourth-place finish. But Liam sees the hairstyle's inherent value.
"It's cool-looking, but it's also good for sports because I have a long top," he said. "It keeps my hair up." Now he's wearing his own updated version, with that problematic front section French-braided.
Anna Hendricks, 18, of St. Paul, who plays basketball and will be playing ultimate Frisbee at the University of St. Thomas there in the fall, said that for children, emulating a sports star's style is a way to connect to that person's success. "You see your favorite athlete and think, 'I want to do what she's doing,' not just in what she's wearing but how she performs her sport, too." Ms. Hendricks said.
Teens are most likely to embrace an athlete's style, but adults are caught up in the Olympic moment, too. They show their ... Read full story
Her first stop after returning from summer camp on Sunday was the Cozy Cuts for Kids salon on the Upper East Side. She got a professional's take on her new favorite style. "I like that it's smooth," she said. "There's no bumps. It's perfect."
Gymnastics dictates that hair be neat and pulled back from the face. The way a gymnast accomplishes this is a matter of taste. In Rio, the go-to looks have been the French-braid-into-a-ponytail worn by Simone Biles and Madison Kocian; the Aly-knot; and the traditional scrunchied ponytail.
"Hair is how you stand out, because in competition we all have to wear the same leotard," said Ella Wilson, a 12-year-old gymnast from Brooklyn who has taken to wearing the braid-into-ponytail of late. "It's a style that flares-up something simple."
Her soccer-player brother, Liam, 14, is a fan of the man bun seen widely at the Olympics on soccer and basketball players, and most notably on the British gymnast Louis Smith. Fans cheekily blamed his knot for a pommel horse fall and his team's subsequent fourth-place finish. But Liam sees the hairstyle's inherent value.
"It's cool-looking, but it's also good for sports because I have a long top," he said. "It keeps my hair up." Now he's wearing his own updated version, with that problematic front section French-braided.
Anna Hendricks, 18, of St. Paul, who plays basketball and will be playing ultimate Frisbee at the University of St. Thomas there in the fall, said that for children, emulating a sports star's style is a way to connect to that person's success. "You see your favorite athlete and think, 'I want to do what she's doing,' not just in what she's wearing but how she performs her sport, too." Ms. Hendricks said.
Teens are most likely to embrace an athlete's style, but adults are caught up in the Olympic moment, too. They show their ... Read full story
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