{"id":43399,"date":"2019-08-01T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T03:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43399"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T03:53:45","slug":"throwback-thursday-five-years-of-mullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/throwback-thursday-five-years-of-mullets\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Five Years of Mullets"},"content":{"rendered":"

My \u201cNever Is the Next New Thing<\/a>\u2122\u201d fashion rule states that the most provocative\/grating\/startling looks \u2014 the ones that make you say, \u201cI would NEVER wear that!\u201d \u2014 are the ones most likely to become trends, big or small. <\/p>\n

A corollary to “Never Is the Next New Thing\u2122” is that after you fall for a look you once loathed, you develop fashion amnesia<\/a> and can’t remember life before. In fact, I only recently learned I had “Never Is the Next New Thing\u2122”-ed myself when it comes to my mullet haircut! Another blog post took me back to a July 2011 story I did for the Huffington Post about high\/low — aka mullet — hemlines for dresses<\/a>. I was all over the trend when it came to dresses, but, I declared, “Mullet hairstyles are still cringe-worthy.” <\/p>\n

When I re-read that, I was like …<\/p>\n