Citations:proto-mullet

Noun: "alternative form of protomullet"

 * 2000, "The unkindest haircut of all", Irish Independent, 6 February 2000:
 * Having experimented with a "proto-mullet" in the Sixties, "early in 1972, David Bowie was checking his long blond Victoria Lake tresses in the bedroom mirror one morning and decided he had to make more of a tonsorial statement to go with the birth of his new 'Ziggy Stardust' alter ego," Larson and Hoskyns inform us.
 * 2001, Guy Maddin, "Death in Winnipeg", The Village Voice, 30 January 2001:
 * These early-'70s proto-mullets are so natural I'm no longer self-conscious about my own new toupee, which I'm debuting on this occasion.
 * 2002, Andre Mouchard, "The mullet is more than a hairstyle", The Orange County Register, 25 January 2002:
 * Jane Fonda, in "Klute," wore what some might call a proto-mullet.
 * 2002, "All through the house…", CMJ New Music Monthly, December 2002:
 * The 47-track Best Of Bowie DVD ($34.98, store.davidbowie.com) collects every single one of David Bowie's looks, from his finest dresses to tailored suits, skintight jumpers to clown costumes, proto-mullets to pompadours.
 * 2003, Tamara Sheward, Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in Southeast Asia, Academy Chicago Publishers (2007), ISBN 9780897335652, page 104:
 * Rather than leading the world in glamour and style, the majority of continentals seem to have been left behind in an era when proto-mullets, moonwalk loafers and white socks were right up there with Pac Man and rollerblades.
 * 2005, Will Hanafin, "Bertie bends it like Beckham in leap to faith", Irish Independent, 20 November 2005:
 * Becks sports a proto-mullet one week and bleached blond tresses the next.
 * 2008, Joe Brown, "Diamond songs sung true", Las Vegas Sun, 19 August 2008:
 * Backed by a young five-piece band, White nails it all: the proto-mullet hair, the squint, the grandiose stage moves, three costume changes including those silky, spangled, puffy-sleeved shirts open to the navel and the baritone with that gravitas and gravelly growl — he probably sounds better than the real Neil at this point in time.
 * 2011, Howard Male, "David Beckenham", The Transmitter, Issue 18, June 2011, page 18:
 * Even the famous Ziggy proto-mullet hairstyle was created, with Bowie’s guidance, by a Beckenham hairdresser who worked at Evelyn Paget’s Ladies’ Hairdressers (now Gigante), and the earliest proto-glam costumes (which arguably gave birth to glam rock) were hand-stitched together by David and Angie, presumably sitting cross-legged on some old Turkish rug, looking dreamily into each others eyes.
 * 2012, Mark Olsen, "By-the-numbers 'Wrath of the Titans' lets down cast of able performers ? 1/2", Chicago Tribune, 29 March 2012:
 * The new story opens with our hero Perseus (Sam Worthington) as a widower and single father, his curly proto-mullet signaling that he has given up on soldiering and is determined to live as a simple fisherman.