![]() ![]() While music legend David Bowie rocked what Barney Hoskyns, author of " The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods" called "the only cool mullet that there's ever been," Dylan Jones, editor of GQ UK, argued that "mullet" itself is "a very pejorative word. ![]() Polk, who occupied the White House from 1845 to 1849 "has the distinction of being the only sitting president to sport a mullet."Īs the years went on, the mullet was interpreted in a multitude of ways. ![]() According to Dennis DiClaudio of Men's Health Magazine, James K. That, however, didn't stop any higher-ups from adopting the look. In 1855's " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain writes that Tom Sawyer called his aunt and uncle 'confiding and mullet-headed.' And apparently he didn't mean either of those things as compliments. ![]() It seems mullets began to be the butt of jokes sometime in the 19th century. that "show mullets were at the inception of western culture." And of course, Ancient Roman chariot racers, as well as 16th century Hittite warriors, the Assyrians, and the Egyptians all sported "hockey hair" long before the look was associated with that particular sport. In a story for Dazed Digital, Oliver Lunn references the book " Mullet Madness," in which author Alan Henderson says that "prehistoric peoples would likely have discovered the practical benefit of cutting their fringe to keep it out of their eyes while extra growth at the back would keep their necks warm and protected from the rain." Lunn also points out there are also Greek statues that date back to the 6th century B.C.E. "The mullet fish basically has no neck, and a fish rots from the neck down, so that may be where the slang derives from, especially since most human Mullet Heads achieve this same effect via excessive hair and musculature," he wrote.Īccording to her comprehensive piece for, Linda Lacina writes that "literature's first mullet mention may have come from the ancient Greek poet Homer - in "The Iliad," he described the Abantes, a group of spearmen, as wearing 'their forelocks cropped, hair grown long at the backs.' In fact, the mullet (also known, by the way, as the Kentucky Waterfall and the Missouri Compromise) may have been a somewhat common, if not practical, choice in ancient - even prehistoric - times. wrote in the magazine Grand Royal that the song lyrics referenced the fish of the same name. On the track "Mullet Head" from their 1994 album, "Ill Communication," the trio's Ad-Rock raps, "You wanna know what's a mullet?/Well I got a little story to tell/About a hairstyle, that's a way of life/Have you ever seen a mullet wife?" According to the Oxford English Dictionary (yes, the mullet is included in the Oxford English Dictionary), the legendary Beastie Boys might be responsible for popularizing the term. It may be an oft-quoted cliché, but there's simply no simpler way to describe the mullet than " Business in the Front, Party in the Back." The distinct hairstyle (seriously, there's no mistaking a mullet) involves a short trim on the top and sides of the head, and some length left at the back. ![]()
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