American Mullet
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American Mullet
Directed by: Jennifer Arnold
It’s pretty weird how something can look cool and fashionable in one time period, only to look hideously wrong 10 years later. Perhaps nowhere is this fact illustrated better than with the classic “short in the front, long in the back” hairstyle that was popularized back in the 80’s — the mullet. The interesting thing is that over 20 years later the mullet still endures, in spite of all the backlash it has received.
While there’s no debating the fact that it’s an unsavoury hairstyle, and that like many things from the 1980’s it’s a little bit ...