The Mullet Issue

Cape Town is full of beautiful people. I think there is something about the South African sun or something in the water, because people are just bred differently here. UCT students definitely dress nicer for class than UW students. No basketball shorts or sweatpants here. UCT students must view walking on campus as a modeling competition, because they really put thought into what they wear to class. It makes for some delicious eye candy and people watching. But for all the great style of South Africans, there is one glaring, major problem. Mullets. They’re everywhere. Whereas in the US, the mullet died with the 1900’s, it’s still very much a part modern style here in Cape Town. I’m not talking a bad haircut-induced mullet that you get fixed asap, but full blown, business in the front, party in the back, mullets. I don’t know what causes these otherwise good-looking guys to get a mullet, but it’s an epidemic. A touch of insanity? Belated American fashion finally making its way to South Africa? I wouldn’t know, because I never get close enough to one of these mulletted boys to ask. I’m too afraid that whatever illness that caused them to get a mullet is contagious. Other than the mullet issue, South Africans are truly beautiful people who in general have a great sense of fashion.