Oh no, just when we thought it was safe to go into the hair salon...Whet Moser, Chicago Tribune, files this horrifying report from the fashion trenches. Not just a "fauxhawk" but the dread "mullet" is observed locally. Drain the pond, kill the fish....

Lanham also picked the Bowie cut as the new new thing in his neighborhood, one "derived from the David Bowie "Aladdin" album cover." It's a more radical variation of a trend that Lanham describes as the "urban mullet . . . business up front, party in the back." Could it be that Chicago has caught up to the hipper parts of Brooklyn erhaps not. Lanham disavows the Bowie mullet trend. "Hopefully the plague hasn't hit Chicago," he says.

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