The mullet style for men

I worked in a grocery store for a couple of the months this summer, and noticed a trend. The men with mullets were usually the same ones who wore ripped jeans and t-shirts with the waists and sleeves cut off. They generally spoke with a really thick country accent, had poor English, and it took them 20 minutes to count their change. *sighs* It`s made me extremely leary of men with mullets. Plus, I don`t think it`s very attractive or flattering on anyone, especially not women. It makes your face look either too square or too round, the bottom of your face really big and the top really small. And it makes your ears look really big too.

I hated them back in the 70`s and hate them today. It is a really unattractive look and I only have seen it on Jerry Springer lately, thank God! On woman it makes their faces look fat.

popolol, all these replies over one hairstyle. Why`s it called the "El Camino" (that`s one cool car).

Ok after reading everything that people have to say I think I am going to add my few (cant afford much) cents worth.

What I am getting out of this is that people are being sterotyped as hillybilly, white trash or rednecks if they have a mullet haircut. For gods sake, that was the 80`s and some people are just stuck in a time warp. I would much rather have a mullet haircut then the good old faithful bowlcuts that the old man gave, especially on his bad days (ouch)

Whats to say that a haircut makes the person? Have you seen bald women walking down your street and what have you thought about her? That she is gay? Did it ever occurr that maybe she has cancer. Or what about the guy that shaves his head bald...does that automatically make him a skin head? Or the guy with long hair, is he a hippie, a druggie? These were all hairstyles of the past.

So if I get my long hair cut into a mullet, this automatically makes me a bad person?

The mullet wont come back is my personal opinion, so I dont think anyone has anything to worry about.

You know being around the Christmas holidays and me always being a late shopper , I thought what the heck, Im going to do some mullet hunting here in Michigan just to see what I can find. Here are my results from one evening of going to the mall and several department stores:

There are more women with mullets then there are men. I saw in just 2 hours of shopping at the mall about 15 women with some type of mullet haircut. Some looked pretty good, some looked like a hack job done on a poor helpless barbie doll.

I also noticed that alot of the BIG 80`s hair was there to....does this mean its going to make a come back as well?? LOL...Should I buy stock in Auqanet lol.

As for guys mullets, I think maybe I saw about 4 or 5 guys within the 2 hours that I saw the women.Id say the guys ages ranged from a late teen to a guy in his 40`s.

In my summary, I have noticed alot more mullets around, Im not sure if its because I never really payed much attention or if the style is coming back. Is anyone else spoting more mullets across the world? Could this be the start of

MULLET MANIA???!!!!!

Oh the bowl cut! lol that reminds me when my sister`s relatives from Germany made a remark that her son wasn`t up to date because he should have a certain style and the style was very similar to the bowl cut. That was about 7 years ago. lol
Personally the mullet style on certain men don`t bother me one bit.

Well said Pete.

Being a teen in the eighties and dong hair in the eighties, who did not have a mullet. Every american male had it at the time.
Being a history buff, the one thing that gets me upset is Hollywood cannot depict it correctly. There is a new show in the fall TV line-up called "The Mullets". They show these guys with sideburns. They showed a guy in "Sweet Home Alabama" with a mullet and sideburns and "Joe Dirt" had sideburns. NO Self respecting mullet wearing guy in the eighties wore sideburns. That was a big NO-NO. You cut the sideburns off at the top of the ear. Sometimes above the earline. Living in the south, there are alot of mullets here and none of them wear side burns.

Personally, I do not like the mullet, nor do I have any mullet clients. But in the eighties they were called "by-levels". I am curious where the name mullet came from or how it got started.

(just my two cents worth)

Someone told me the term "Mullet" was started over in Britian.
I really don't like mullet hairstyles on men or women. You rarely see them these days, thankfully.

I like your new artsy looking photo by your name Sophie!

As to why the media doesn't portray mullets accurately, it's because they're wigs, I bet. If a wig doesn't have sideburns, or long hair hanging over the ears, the person's real sideburns will show.