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| Marc from Surreal
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So Marc, as a hairdresser, it must be your worst
nightmare when someone comes in and asks for a mullet…
Well, I actually had a mullet myself in the 80s!
But everyone had them then!
Having had a mullet yourself then, does that
make you better qualified as a hairdresser to give someone else
one?
I don’t know about that! But the thing with
mullets you have to be careful with is to make sure the short bits
and the long bit all join
together properly. A lot of the time, they don’t join properly
at all… and it looks hideous when that’s the case.
Why do you think the mullet has come back into
fashion of late?
Well what goes around comes around I guess. I think
in a way it’s just a lack of creativity – fashion just
goes round a big circle, and it seems to come round quicker and
quicker by the year. I guess the mullet came in as part of the whole
new wave/new romantic thing that’s been ‘in’ for
quite a while now. There’s been a lot of wonky fringes and
asymmetric haircuts as part of that, as well as the mullet.
Do you think the resurgence of the mullet in
the last year or so has been solely a local phenomenon?
I don’t know if it’s just a ‘Nottingham
thing’. If you go to somewhere like Sheffield, I think you’ll
find it’s popular there as well.
Has the mullet evolved much over the years?
Well back in the 80s, a mullet was just a normal,
everyday haircut – whereas nowadays, people have them because
they want to stand out. They’re a fashion statement now, and
people go to greater extremes – you get them going VERY short
at the front, for instance. Or you get a combination of a mullet
at the back and a mohican on top. It’s a new haircut in itself
really
– a mongrel haircut! There should be a name for it! But generally,
mullets are a lot more stylised and defined now – they’re
much more high-fashion.
Do you believe the theory that the mullet has
its origins in the Stone Age – a time when, because of the
lack of mirrors, people would just cut the parts of their hair that
they could see?
No… I don’t think they cut their hair,
did they? I imagine they probably had dreads! What would they have
cut their hair with? Bits of flint?!
So what next? When the mullet goes out of fashion,
how are the hipsters going to be wearing their hair?
I think everything’s going to go all modern
and stylised again – lots of neat bobs. I think everyone’s
going to start dressing up a little bit as well. Everyone’s
dressing down at the moment. People are walking round like hippies
in the 70s – it’s all baggy trousers with rips on the
bottoms… but as always, there’LL eventually be a backlash
against that. People will think – what can we do now? And everything
will become more blunt and sharp.
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