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Subject: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: 90s Guy on 03/15/15 at 6:54 pm
People often associate the mullet hairstyle with the '80s, but I propose that while it may have first appeared around the '80s in pop culture, it belongs more to the '90s in a pop culture sense.
Look at Wayne's World (1992), Lethal Weapon 2 (1992), Pocahontas (1995--All the main characters sport mullets), Framed (1990), Con Air (1997) Steven Seagal films, for film examples.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/9/9a/Lethal_Weapon_2_cap070.jpg
https://ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/nick-cage-conair.jpg
Or, DC Comics. When Superman was 'brought back from the dead' in late 1993 during DC Comics "Return of Superman" run, he sported a mullet, and Clark Kent sported a ponytail. Superman was depicted with a mullet in every comic featuring him from late 1993 through late 1996. If the style had been more popular in the '80s, the writers wouldn't have had Superman have it, or (due to popular demand) it wouldn't have been kept as long.
http://i.imgur.com/xkVoEe4.png
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/6/67663/3754642-514.jpg
If the mullet was more of an '80s hairstyle, you wouldn't have seen Aladdin sporting one or John Smith sporting one as well. That Disney - a mega corporation very much in touch with what was popular and acceptable - had it's main male leads in two major '90s productions - have mullets speaks to the hairstyle's popularity at least as late as 1995:
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aladdin/images/c/c3/Aladdin.png/revision/latest?cb=20120320185508
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34600000/Walt-Disney-Screencaps-Captain-John-Smith-walt-disney-characters-34673619-5000-2813.jpg
You wouldn't have seen James Hetfield sport an extreme version of the hairstyle on Metallica's 1995 tour:
http://www.lepermessiah26.com/modules/recordings/public/images/video/Metallica_1995-08-26_CastleDonington_screen_191389272179.jpg
IMO, the mullet is a hairstyle that started coming into place in the late 80s (aside from late '70s photos of Paul McCartney) and became huge around 1990-1991, and remained popular/acceptable until around 1996/1997
Thoughts?
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/15 at 12:54 am
Mullets existed and was a trend before the 1990's
From wiki:
"1970s
Mullets were sported by rock stars Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Paul McCartney as far back as the early 1970s. In USSR, a boy's haircut of the same style - short in the front and long in the back - was called "итальянка", i.e. "The Italian ".
1980s
The zenith of the mullet's popularity in 1980s continental Europe has been described as an "age of singing tattooed Swedish Flokati Rugs"."
Check the topic "Mullets" in The 1980's board http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=16729.0
Think Duran Duran!
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/15 at 2:13 am
Traditionally, Superman's hair does not grow, like his fingernails or stubble on his face.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: 90s Guy on 03/16/15 at 3:57 am
Mullets existed and was a trend before the 1990's
From wiki:
"1970s
Mullets were sported by rock stars Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Paul McCartney as far back as the early 1970s. In USSR, a boy's haircut of the same style - short in the front and long in the back - was called "итальянка", i.e. "The Italian ".
1980s
The zenith of the mullet's popularity in 1980s continental Europe has been described as an "age of singing tattooed Swedish Flokati Rugs"."
Check the topic "Mullets" in The 1980's board http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=16729.0
Think Duran Duran!
I didn't say they ORIGINATED in the '90s. But they didn't become a noticable, distinct trend (separate from just plain old "long hair") until arguably the 1980s. In the late '70s, if Bowie or McCartney wore a hairstyle that happened to be long, it was probably just considered 'long hair'...Nothing out of the norm for rockers. Only in the late '80s or so did it become codified if you will as a separate style...And my argument in this thread is that the early-mid '90s, rather than the '80s, represent the pop cultural zenith, and then fall, of the mullet as a popular hair style.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: 90s Guy on 03/16/15 at 3:58 am
Traditionally, Superman's hair does not grow, like his fingernails or stubble on his face.
Yes, but there was a whole three/four year period of time where it did in fact grow. In every single comic in which Supes features from '93 to early '97, he had what we now call a mullet...My argument is that, given not only Supes but the other mainstream actors and characters mentioned sporting the style, is that the zenith of the mullet was the '90s...It didn't become an "unaccpetable" or out of fashion style until around '97 or '98.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Howard on 03/16/15 at 1:27 pm
Traditionally, Superman's hair does not grow, like his fingernails or stubble on his face.
He has it stay in one place.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: 80sfan on 03/16/15 at 9:40 pm
I remember seeing mullets in 1992/1993, when I was a kiddie! Wow, seems like a million years ago!
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: 80sfan on 03/16/15 at 9:42 pm
I saw one kid in my kindergartener class having one mullet in 1994/1995. I didn't see any in 1996 and after though. I even saw one of my brothers have one. 8) I think brother had it in 1993/1994.
It got harder and harder to find after 1997 for sure.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Mat1991 on 03/18/15 at 5:29 pm
I saw one kid in my kindergartener class having one mullet in 1994/1995. I didn't see any in 1996 and after though. I even saw one of my brothers have one. 8) I think brother had it in 1993/1994.
It got harder and harder to find after 1997 for sure.
I remember a kindergartner at my elementary school wearing a mullet - and that was in the early '00s!
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: TheEarly90sGuy on 03/18/15 at 6:01 pm
Mullets existed and was a trend before the 1990's
From wiki:
"1970s
Mullets were sported by rock stars Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Paul McCartney as far back as the early 1970s. In USSR, a boy's haircut of the same style - short in the front and long in the back - was called "итальянка", i.e. "The Italian ".
1980s
The zenith of the mullet's popularity in 1980s continental Europe has been described as an "age of singing tattooed Swedish Flokati Rugs"."
Check the topic "Mullets" in The 1980's board http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=16729.0
Think Duran Duran!
Agreed.
Mullets were around from the beginning to the end of the 1980s. The years 1987 and 1988 come to mind whenever someone mentions the word. They were definitely trendy in the late 80s.
https://superpanpizza.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/0082mullet.jpg
https://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bundy-mullet.gif
https://gregariousviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/lethal_weapon.jpg
The mullet was just the norm for guys in the early to mid 90s.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X9WSMK0f0oc/TOIFOslp17I/AAAAAAAAAhc/LrLed3G3mwU/s1600/80s-mullet-billy-ray-cyrus.jpg
The Caesar was a 90s trend:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AoBmM_isubo/TNyQ7B_PueI/AAAAAAAAPIQ/ZRiwx2Rx0dg/s1600/georgemichael_sungodown480.jpg
The Caesar was the norm for all guys in the 2000s. ;)
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: TheEarly90sGuy on 03/19/15 at 1:02 am
I remember a kindergartner at my elementary school wearing a mullet - and that was in the early '00s!
Remember that show "The Mullets" on UPN from the early 2000s?
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Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: TheEarly90sGuy on 03/19/15 at 1:07 am
People often associate the mullet hairstyle with the '80s, but I propose that while it may have first appeared around the '80s in pop culture, it belongs more to the '90s in a pop culture sense.
Look at Wayne's World (1992), Lethal Weapon 2 (1992), Pocahontas (1995--All the main characters sport mullets), Framed (1990), Con Air (1997) Steven Seagal films, for film examples.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/9/9a/Lethal_Weapon_2_cap070.jpg
https://ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/nick-cage-conair.jpg
Or, DC Comics. When Superman was 'brought back from the dead' in late 1993 during DC Comics "Return of Superman" run, he sported a mullet, and Clark Kent sported a ponytail. Superman was depicted with a mullet in every comic featuring him from late 1993 through late 1996. If the style had been more popular in the '80s, the writers wouldn't have had Superman have it, or (due to popular demand) it wouldn't have been kept as long.
http://i.imgur.com/xkVoEe4.png
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/6/67663/3754642-514.jpg
If the mullet was more of an '80s hairstyle, you wouldn't have seen Aladdin sporting one or John Smith sporting one as well. That Disney - a mega corporation very much in touch with what was popular and acceptable - had it's main male leads in two major '90s productions - have mullets speaks to the hairstyle's popularity at least as late as 1995:
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aladdin/images/c/c3/Aladdin.png/revision/latest?cb=20120320185508
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34600000/Walt-Disney-Screencaps-Captain-John-Smith-walt-disney-characters-34673619-5000-2813.jpg
You wouldn't have seen James Hetfield sport an extreme version of the hairstyle on Metallica's 1995 tour:
http://www.lepermessiah26.com/modules/recordings/public/images/video/Metallica_1995-08-26_CastleDonington_screen_191389272179.jpg
IMO, the mullet is a hairstyle that started coming into place in the late 80s (aside from late '70s photos of Paul McCartney) and became huge around 1990-1991, and remained popular/acceptable until around 1996/1997
Thoughts?
Shame on you! You left out Captain Planet! Why?:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OHFwZwATALs/UHrqBRXNxDI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/oSrgiXTUFkY/s1600/hy.jpeg
Captain Planet was like an animated version of MacGuyver and the early 90s answer to He-Man all in one package.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Todd Pettingzoo on 03/19/15 at 5:17 am
People often associate the mullet hairstyle with the '80s, but I propose that while it may have first appeared around the '80s in pop culture, it belongs more to the '90s in a pop culture sense.
Look at Wayne's World (1992), Lethal Weapon 2 (1992), Pocahontas (1995--All the main characters sport mullets), Framed (1990), Con Air (1997) Steven Seagal films, for film examples.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/9/9a/Lethal_Weapon_2_cap070.jpg
https://ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/nick-cage-conair.jpg
Or, DC Comics. When Superman was 'brought back from the dead' in late 1993 during DC Comics "Return of Superman" run, he sported a mullet, and Clark Kent sported a ponytail. Superman was depicted with a mullet in every comic featuring him from late 1993 through late 1996. If the style had been more popular in the '80s, the writers wouldn't have had Superman have it, or (due to popular demand) it wouldn't have been kept as long.
http://i.imgur.com/xkVoEe4.png
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/6/67663/3754642-514.jpg
If the mullet was more of an '80s hairstyle, you wouldn't have seen Aladdin sporting one or John Smith sporting one as well. That Disney - a mega corporation very much in touch with what was popular and acceptable - had it's main male leads in two major '90s productions - have mullets speaks to the hairstyle's popularity at least as late as 1995:
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aladdin/images/c/c3/Aladdin.png/revision/latest?cb=20120320185508
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34600000/Walt-Disney-Screencaps-Captain-John-Smith-walt-disney-characters-34673619-5000-2813.jpg
You wouldn't have seen James Hetfield sport an extreme version of the hairstyle on Metallica's 1995 tour:
http://www.lepermessiah26.com/modules/recordings/public/images/video/Metallica_1995-08-26_CastleDonington_screen_191389272179.jpg
IMO, the mullet is a hairstyle that started coming into place in the late 80s (aside from late '70s photos of Paul McCartney) and became huge around 1990-1991, and remained popular/acceptable until around 1996/1997
Thoughts?
I wouldn't consider some of those pure mullets.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Howard on 03/19/15 at 1:36 pm
The Caesar was a 90s trend:
What was the Caesar? ???
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/15 at 1:37 pm
Agreed.
Mullets were around from the beginning to the end of the 1980s. The years 1987 and 1988 come to mind whenever someone mentions the word. They were definitely trendy in the late 80s.
https://superpanpizza.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/0082mullet.jpg
https://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bundy-mullet.gif
https://gregariousviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/lethal_weapon.jpg
The mullet was just the norm for guys in the early to mid 90s.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X9WSMK0f0oc/TOIFOslp17I/AAAAAAAAAhc/LrLed3G3mwU/s1600/80s-mullet-billy-ray-cyrus.jpg
The Caesar was a 90s trend:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AoBmM_isubo/TNyQ7B_PueI/AAAAAAAAPIQ/ZRiwx2Rx0dg/s1600/georgemichael_sungodown480.jpg
The Caesar was the norm for all guys in the 2000s. ;)
What was the Caesar? ???
Did Julius Caesar have a mullet?
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: TheEarly90sGuy on 03/19/15 at 1:46 pm
What was the Caesar? ???
The Juilus Caesar haircut.
https://neitshade5.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/julius-caesar2.jpg
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/15 at 1:46 pm
The Juilus Caesar haircut.
https://neitshade5.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/julius-caesar2.jpg
But it is not long at the back.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: TheEarly90sGuy on 03/19/15 at 1:51 pm
Did Julius Caesar have a mullet?
No. It would have been hilarious if he did. ;D
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/15 at 1:54 pm
No. It would have been hilarious if he did. ;D
And we could blame him?
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Howard on 03/19/15 at 2:43 pm
But it is not long at the back.
almost like the bowl cut.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: TheEarly90sGuy on 03/19/15 at 2:54 pm
But it is not long at the back.
I know, I was saying that 'The Caesar' was one of the first hair trends for guys in the 1990s and it became the norm for most of the 2000s.
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Jquar on 03/22/15 at 1:01 am
Mullets probably peaked from about 1985 to 1993.
Many rock singers had them in the late 80s. Lou Gramm comes to mind, this was 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTVJSP1vO8
Subject: Re: The mullet was a '90s trend - Not '80s
Written By: Arrowstone on 03/22/15 at 3:22 pm
I associate the "Caesar" with late 90s and early 00s; were I lived, longer "surfer" hair and later the bangs emo hair were norm in the mid/late 00s.
I remember seeing people with mullets in the late 90s, but only with poorer people.