In middle age, his hair has evolved to what can be classified only as a rather scraggly graying mullet, which shocks no one. Some famous mulletheads, sadly, lose the courage to go on. Tennis star Andre Agassi and crooner Michael Bolton, who used to sport luxurious mullet locks, now are recovering mulletheads with minimalist close-cropped or shaved skulls. One of the beauties of mulletdom is that it is completely unisex, both masculine and feminine in its mysterious appeal. This is a haircut that Mom can easily maintain with a hair trimmer, as often appears to be the case.
Professionals tend to be grimly tolerant of the style but deeply unenthusiastic about it.
If you walk into a Dallas hair salon and ask for a trim on your mullet cut, prepare to encounter some resistance. There is such a thing as a chic mullet cut, you understand. Karl Lagerfeld and Gucci's Tom Ford, in fact, recently gave their male fashion models mullet cuts and sent them swaggering down the catwalk. Hair salons would like to emulate that degree of ironic hipdom. Sort of late '70s, with lots of color layered on.