Minnie’s Musings

Why have mullets returned? Why are the youth of today sporting these filial atrocities? They didn’t look good in the early 80s and they don’t look good now.

One’s negative opinion has not been enhanced by one’s Best Beloved’s oft repeated anecdote that his father shaved him.l a mullet when his primary school was suffering a six legged plague.

Furthermore , which doyenne of female hairstyling said the current trend of choppy random waves would ever look smart. It doesn’t. It simply looks like you slept on moderately damp hair and/or didn’t bother to use a hairbrush today.

Why fashionistas and style gurus promote certain fashions is completely beyond me. The – thank God short lived – trend for smart trousers with a short and utterly pointless split up the front is a case in point. I was very disappointed to see Julia Roberts sporting a pair in some movie a year or so ago. One expects better from one’s cinematic heroines.

I think a you can tell whether anyone is truly comfortable in whatever they are wearing by the confidence with which they comport themselves and whether they are fidgeting with their outfit (specifically for women, with neck and/or hemline and trouser length for men.

Wisdom delivered. Off to find an ice cream