AP, COPENHAGEN
Business in the front, party in the back. A packed Danish crowd on Saturday celebrated the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back. Denmark’s raucous Mullet Championship, presented on an outdoor stage in central Copenhagen, attracted 12 well-coiffed competitors and more than 1,000 spectators to the evening’s “mane” event.
An attendee at Denmark’s Mullet Championship looks on in Copenhagen on Saturday.
Organizer Steffen Stiw Weber, a 37-year-old electrician, said the championships, now in their fourth year, began after he had a hair transplant and chose to grow out a mullet. After realizing he could not compete in a mullet competition in the US, because he was not a US citizen, Stiw Weber started his own in Denmark.
“I was like, okay, I have to do it on my own here in Denmark,” he said, smiling.
