[Bikkuri]

Exactly. These aren’t what we could have called mullets back then.

[familyop]

"Exactly. These aren’t what we could have called mullets back then."

Agreed. The hair (long enough to partially or completely cover the ears) was cut to various lengths on the sides. It looked "layered" or "feathered" and was combed towards the back dried with a blow dryer. It vaguely resembled scales from front to back on the sides. It was called a mullet later on, if I remember correctly, when it was going out of style ('80s and '90s).

On the distopian look with the hair cut very short with clippers on one or both sides, I first saw it in the '90s. Some of the women in the Midwest are still wearing it, more often those with drug problems. Some of the boys in those families also wear it.