Head-banging
metal fans, country western fans and carnies are often
identified as leading mullet wearers. One might innocently add
bikers to the list. As for available statistics, the satirical
Web site “Hoosier Gazette” claims Indiana has the largest
percentage of mullet wearers per capita: 14 percent.
There was only
one thing to do: Go hunting for mullets.
The Journal
Gazette decided to call local barbershops and find out whether
there really are men out there who still sport a mullet. We’re
hair, er, here to tell you that the answer is you better
believe it.
It took several
phone calls (many places didn’t answer the phone; it was only
later that this reporter found out that most barbers are
closed Mondays) to find out whether barbers and stylists were
still seeing this ’do, which was popular in the 1980s.
At Big League
Barbers, 431 E. Dupont
Road,
stylist April Labounty confirmed that at least four men visit
the shop on a monthly basis to have their mullets trimmed and
shaped.
At the Hair
Gallery Mens Shoppe, 9833 Coldwater
Road,
stylists see 10 men a month.
What? Surely
the Hoosier Gazette has got it wrong.
This style went
out with such things as parachute pants, leg warmers and
keytars. Right?
“They’re still
out there,” Labounty says.
She says most
of the men who come into the shop and have a mullet are in
their 30s and grew up in the ’80s.
That might
explain why there is some reluctance to let go of a dying ’do.
When asked why
some customers still sport a mullet, Labounty says one guy
declared the hairdo allows him to be business in the front and
still be acceptable – even with the long hair in the back.
But Labounty
has another theory. Men are not apt to change anything, she
says.
“Men hang on to
everything.”
Apparently for
a long time.
The Baltimore
Sun contributed to this story.
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