Hairstyle

Ford exec plans to keep mullet hairstyle

Published: Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:11:52
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DETROIT

Ford executive Mark Fields says he has no plans to change one of his most recognizable attributes -- his mullet hairstyle.

Although Fields, executive vice president and president of Ford's Americas division, says he does not believe his hairstyle counts as a mullet, the long-in-back and short-in-front style is recognized by many as the often-mocked style sported by many hockey players, The Detroit Free Press reported Monday.

Fields said he has no plans to cut his long hair.

I don't want to be too corporate, he said. That's part of my radical side. Ford is headquartered in Dearborn, Mich. Ninety-one percent of Internet voters on a Jalopnik.com poll concluded that Fields' hair is, in fact, a bold mullet, and an Autoblog.com user observed after the Detroit auto show that Fields looked like an 8-track tape salesman from the late 70's in his zoot suit and mullet.Fields said he has gotten used to the digs on his 'do, and he even keeps a computer-generated joke card on his desk that features a Ford-brand version of the executive with long hair, a Mercury version with medium-length hair, and a Lincoln-brand Fields with a closely-cropped mane.

Source: EARTHtimes.org