I'm pretty certain the goatee is something that returned exclusively in the 90's, I don't remember it ever being popular in the 80's. In the 70's and 60's you had some long, shaggy growths, but usually they were moustache's, full beards, or the fu man chu stache...not goatees. The 20's-30's-40's-50's were all super clean shaven for the most part. I believe Taft was the last President to even have facial hair. So the goatee came back from an era pre dates even the 1900's.

The mullet is sort of a tweener in my eye. It wasn't popular early 80's, crept into the culture in the mid to late 80's. I think it probably reached its peak around 89-90 when boys would actually grow "rat tails" down the back. Imagine a crew cut with a long rat tail down between the shoulder blades...I saw it all. Mullets were still acceptable probably up until 1994, I even remember seeing some in 1995, but by then the longish bowl haircut with the part down the middle started to take command.

Mullets: Late '70s - 1994
Goatees: Early/Mid '90s - early/mid '00s

I think mullets started getting popular around 1982, but you're right, the late '80s always seemed more synonymous with them (i.e. people often rag on Richard Marx - who peaked around 1987-91 - for having a mullet and being a "soft rocker"). ;D

"Straight" mustaches (i.e. think Alex Trebek on Jeopardy, until he shaved it off recently) do seem like an '80s thing. Alof of guys had them, especially without having any other kind of facial hair.

I'd also agree on goatees.

lmao at mullets being 90's things... there like 80's things and goatees they are still around but not as much ..

I once got in an argument with a guy over at The 80s Server who was convinced that Mullets were a 90's thing.  They date back to the 70's, and I even gave him proof, but he still wouldn't believe ;D

I'm pretty certain the goatee is something that returned exclusively in the 90's, I don't remember it ever being popular in the 80's. In the 70's and 60's you had some long, shaggy growths, but usually they were moustache's, full beards, or the fu man chu stache...not goatees. The 20's-30's-40's-50's were all super clean shaven for the most part. I believe Taft was the last President to even have facial hair. So the goatee came back from an era pre dates even the 1900's.

The mullet is sort of a tweener in my eye. It wasn't popular early 80's, crept into the culture in the mid to late 80's. I think it probably reached its peak around 89-90 when boys would actually grow "rat tails" down the back. Imagine a crew cut with a long rat tail down between the shoulder blades...I saw it all. Mullets were still acceptable probably up until 1994, I even remember seeing some in 1995, but by then the longish bowl haircut with the part down the middle started to take command.


The people who had those kind of hairstyles generally came from a redneck culture.  They didn't care if they were wearing a 1982 hairstlye in 1995.   

The '70s were the moustache decade, every guy in the '70s tried a moustache at least once (including my father, yuck, old college pictures of him) and even a beard. They sort of went out except for the Prince-style moustache in the '80s, never to really come back. Mullets are very '80s, though they survived to the early '90s and rednecks still wear that hairstyle. Goatees always struck me as a late-1991+ sort of thing that died c. 2002.

Goatees are still alive and well.

I guess you haven't been to the South lately, because the mullet is stillbeing worn by quite a few males...and some females down here.  

I guess to me the mullet was most popular in the mid 80's.  

Goatee's are actually quite trendy for guys in their late teens and 20s right now.  A lot of people have the small goatee sans mustache now.

As for mullets... I always thought of them as 70s/80s. :o

Never saw mullets around here in the '90s at all really, maybe a little bit in the early '90s.

Never saw mullets around here in the '90s at all really, maybe a little bit in the early '90s.


Same here, basically.  I can remember seeing a few people with the mullet in the early 90s when I was a little kid, but not beyond that.

Goatees are still alive and well.


Yep. I've got one, and so far no one has given me any crap about it.

Never saw mullets around here in the '90s at all really, maybe a little bit in the early '90s.


I think of them as a pre-1994 thing.  The honest-to-God 1990s styles really began in 1994 with the Rachel cut and flooding of tattoos and body piercings, the '00s styles such as the Emo style, hoop earrings and shaggy hair didn't really begin until 2004ish.

I think of them as a pre-1994 thing.  The honest-to-God 1990s styles really began in 1994 with the Rachel cut and flooding of tattoos and body piercings, the '00s styles such as the Emo style, hoop earrings and shaggy hair didn't really begin until 2004ish.


I think it was more the second half of 2003 that I really started noticing the '00s styles.

I think it was more the second half of 2003 that I really started noticing the '00s styles.


Yeah I'd say so.  The '90s hairstyles are pretty dead, among "cooler" people.

Yeah I'd say so.  The '90s hairstyles are pretty dead, among "cooler" people.


You still see people from about 25-40 sporting it pretty frequently, though.

Looking back at old TV shows, mullets still seemed very popular in the early 90's, and lots of pro wrestlers still had mullets in the mid/late 90's.

I think of them as a pre-1994 thing.  The honest-to-God 1990s styles really began in 1994 with the Rachel cut and flooding of tattoos and body piercings, the '00s styles such as the Emo style, hoop earrings and shaggy hair didn't really begin until 2004ish.


That John Lennon, 60s hippie shaggy hair look that a lot of teenage boys are wearing?  Yeah, that seems pretty recent, like 2004 at the earliest.

You still see people from about 25-40 sporting it pretty frequently, though.


What would be an exclusively 90s style though? 

You still see people from about 25-40 sporting it pretty frequently, though.


Looking rather foolish  ::)

What would be an exclusively 90s style though? 


The Rachel haircut, the Mariah spiral perm, the "Gumby" haircut (screams early '90s, watch In Living Color), spiked hair with little blonde stuff for teen guys, the Kurt haircut.

That John Lennon, 60s hippie shaggy hair look that a lot of teenage boys are wearing?  Yeah, that seems pretty recent, like 2004 at the earliest.


Yeah, exactly.  It's such a 2005 look, based on what I've seen in movies and TV shows from the '90s nobody was wearing that.
The hoop earrings are also extremely common, I mean most '80s comebacks are really half-assed but those things are everywhere right now.


What would be an exclusively 90s style though?  


Backwards baseball caps.

Yeah, exactly.  It's such a 2005 look, based on what I've seen in movies and TV shows from the '90s nobody was wearing that.
The hoop earrings are also extremely common, I mean most '80s comebacks are really half-assed but those things are everywhere right now.

Backwards baseball caps.


Flannel
Giant Neon-Colored Sunglasses
M.C. Hammer Pants and Pants That Buckle Up the Side
Scrunchies and the "Messy Bun"
Those Little Shorts
Butterfly Clips

As I've said before, the '80s comeback is really more ethos and zeitgeist than direct plagiarism, like the '70s comeback in the '90s.

Yeah, exactly.  It's such a 2005 look, based on what I've seen in movies and TV shows from the '90s nobody was wearing that.
The hoop earrings are also extremely common, I mean most '80s comebacks are really half-assed but those things are everywhere right now.

That long shaggy hair is a total late 60s-70s, even very early 80s look.  That's a style I never really thought would come back in fashion, because as cool as it can look, when it goes out of style it looks absolutely ridiculous.  Kinda like the big afro that Black men sometimes wear.  In one way it can look really cool, but it has the potential of looking really stupid when it becomes old school.  It doesn't date very well.


Backwards baseball caps.


I think people can still wear this for comfort sake.  Not necessarily as the fashion statement "hey I'm a bad ass" that it used to be. 

That long shaggy hair is a total late 60s-70s, even very early 80s look.  That's a style I never really thought would come back in fashion, because as cool as it can look, when it goes out of style it looks absolutely ridiculous.  Kinda like the big afro that Black men sometimes wear.  In one way it can look really cool, but it has the potential of looking really stupid when it becomes old school.  It doesn't date very well.

I think people can still wear this for comfort sake.  Not necessarily as the fashion statement "hey I'm a bad ass" that it used to be. 


Yeah it's definitely a '60s and '70s style, come back, I'm guessing because of the retro indie kids.

As for backwards basecall caps, yeah I see them every once in a while.  They're definitely not a fashion statement anymore, but yeah you still can without getting a lot of looks, it's just not any cooler (in fact, probably less cool) than wearing it sideways.

^ Surprisingly, I still do see quite a few people wearing backwards baseball hats out in public, from various ages too (I'd say, like no younger than 15 though, and alot of late 20/early 30s). But from my observation, it's certainly in a very "mainstream" looking sense - guys in the mall, at the grocery store or just walking around the neighborhood. I'd say it's not a "Hood" thing anymore.

Then again, I never really did it much, even in 1994 when everyone else did, so I could be wrong.

^ Surprisingly, I still do see quite a few people wearing backwards baseball hats out in public, from various ages too (I'd say, like no younger than 15 though, and alot of late 20/early 30s). But from my observation, it's certainly in a very "mainstream" looking sense - guys in the mall, at the grocery store or just walking around the neighborhood. I'd say it's not a "Hood" thing anymore.

Then again, I never really did it much, even in 1994 when everyone else did, so I could be wrong.


I wore a backwards baseball cap pretty frequently when I was like 4-8 in the '90s, which is like 1994-1998. I still see it, but it's nowhere near as prevalent as it was. Now, the thing seems to be to wear one forwards and slightly cocked upwards.