Why Are People Growing Mullets Again
It's the fad from the 80s you never thought would see a revival, but hairdressers are reporting the mullet is back in vogue.
Hairstylist Brent Mattern loves the mullet then much, he cuts his own.
"I think information technology's fun. People sort of wait at you and smile," Mr Mattern, who owns Bespoke Hair in North Hobart, said.
Mr Mattern said he cuts about one mullet a week at his salon and believes its rise in popularity comes downwardly to AFL players and popular music from the past.
"The mullet is sort of that cloak-and-dagger, grungy haircut, but at present it's come up dorsum through the market place and it'southward become this big sort of fashionable thing again."
Back in mode or never left?
And so what is information technology about the mullet that's so appealing to Australian males?
"I think a lot of these men that have mullets are trying to disrupt the status quo," photographer Isabella Moore said.
Moore had an entire volume published celebrating the iconic hairstyle after she was hired to photograph Mulletfest in New S Wales.
"I thought I'd landed on another planet," she said of the annual festival.
"I reckon it's got to do with this Australian notion of existence laid back and not taking yourself as well seriously.
"People are so fascinated with it as well considering it's seen as this quintessential mark of Australian identity."
Equally for whether or not the mullet was making a return to the mainstream, Ms Moore believes while it has come up back into way, it also never really left.
"The men who have been wearing information technology since the 80s, I don't think they're the kind of blokes who care about fashion but because it's maintained that solidity, there has been a rise in the 'fashionable' mullet in the concluding five years," she said.
Birth of an icon
While having a mullet today may be undeniably Australian, Moore said the style was adopted from America.
"When [Australians] were developing our own entertainment industry, it was easier to adopt an American influence, [and] considering of that American influence in the 70s, American civilisation came to Commonwealth of australia," she said.
She namechecked singer John Farnham, i of the mullet'due south most famous Australian wearers.
"He was quite famous and would have travelled and maybe personified [the mullet] in an Australian way," she said.
Alex Hunt, 28, has had his mullet "on and off" for around three years.
As for why he defenseless the mullet: "I just liked information technology, it seemed like a good, honest haircut."
Mr Hunt said his now signature look tin can be quite polarising as people either love it or detest it.
"It's quite a bogan sort of thing to have, but at the aforementioned time, it's entertaining — information technology'southward a conversation starter," he said.
"Mum would never let me take i as a kid [and] it comes downwardly to not having what I wanted equally a kid. But I'm an adult now."
Conversation starter
From existence stopped at Bunnings to spotting a mullet across a crowded room, each mullet has its own tale to tell.
Caleb Overdijk, 19, explained the mullet brought people together and transcended form or social standing.
The dairy farmer used to have a man bun merely decided to get a mullet after a relationship ended.
"You could say it was to get over the grief," he laughed.
As for what the other farmers think of his hairstyle, he says they find it a bit funny.
"I reckon I would've expected [negative feedback] from the older generation, only a lot of older people really love it. I call back it takes them back," he said.
The Mullet that caught the PM's centre
Jarrad Cirkel had no idea the mullet he had been sporting for nearly a decade would cause such a stir, merely after being snapped aslope Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the campaign trail, Mr Cirkel has get something of a local celebrity.
"The more the merrier, power to the mullet," Mr Cirkel, from northern Tasmania, said when asked how he felt about then many younger men sporting the signature expect.
The Bridgenorth Football Guild player and TAFE teacher said his mullet was a "chip of a talking point" with his students who often had mullets themselves.
Withal, not everyone is a fan.
"The last haircut I had was the week before our nuptials and she's hated it e'er since and wants it gone.
"It'south here for the meantime."
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Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-29/hairdressers-say-mullet-is-making-a-comeback/11123132
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