Mutton chop sideburns and fu manchus were big then, in both senses of the word. Burt Reynolds was the top box office draw, boxing heavyweight Ken Norton sported one in his title fight with Muhammad Ali. But the mustache carried on, and I was born into the last heyday of the facial hair. An abbreviated version called the Toothbrush was popularized by the greatest funnyman of the early 20th century, Charlie Chaplin, until a very unfunny man buried it forever in 1945. These and other men are the reason stylized mustaches assumed august names like the Imperial, the Fantastico, the Kaiser. It rose above the fin de siecle of the 19th Century on the stiff upper lips of Theodore Roosevelt and German Gen. It grew like a bandage out of the blood of the Civil War on men like Gen. Unlike bell-bottoms or monocles, the mustache for so long seemed outside the vagaries of fashion. Yet, when he got married Saturday, “for my family - for my bride’s family - I said I’d go clean shaven.” ” Next, he drew up a business card: the scales of justice hanging from a Handlebar mustache. Each year’s end, the mustache returned and “people stopped seeing it as humorous.” Then, before he took the bar exam, he styled his ‘stache into a classic Handlebar and told people, “There’s no better way to handle the bar, than with a. He grew it before his finals his first year at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, and he tested so exquisitely it made him superstitious. I ran my concerns by Daniel Haney, a lawyer and, once upon a time, bearer of perhaps the finest under-40 mustache in the capital city.
Another woman, a colleague, my age, attractive - married, of course - said, “Bobby, you have such a handsome face, why? Why would you do that?” I myself have test driven this thing lo’ these last three months and been told I look “terrible,” look “so old,” look “creepy.” I was told I bore a “porn ‘stache” from my own aunt.
3 is a Mustache Dash 5K to mark “Movember,” that little-known, month-long celebration of the mustache that, uh, also raises awareness of prostate cancer and men’s health issues?īut, oh, how far the mustache has fallen out of fashion. The Friday before Halloween the American Mustache Institute is calling for a national ‘Stache Bash - whatever that is - and over in Tulsa on Nov. The night breeze blows brisk we’ve shaken out our fuzzier raiments. In honor of Movember, we decided to round up 11 real men (and one animated man) famous for making the mustache (sort of) cool.If ever ‘twas the season for mustaches, the time is nigh. They might be considered an object of pure camp now, but throughout the mid-to-late 20th century, the mustache-in various incarnations-was a legitimate trend that had zero trace of underlying irony or humor (see: photos of your dad in the ’80s.) Since then, it’s receded into a territory reserved for hipsters and quirky dudes (as evidenced by James Franco‘s 2010 ‘stache.) MORE: 25 Celebrity Names You’re Pronouncing Wrong Started in 2003, the initiative officially seeks to raise awareness and funds for the fight against prostate and testicular cancer, but unofficially it lets us take an entire month to reflect on the oddity that is the mustache, that very specific tuft of facial hair most typically affiliated with ’70s porn stars, ’80s dads, sheriffs, dictators, and rock stars. MORE: 25 Underwear Models From the 1940s to Now Ladies, you might want to start paying better attention to your guys’ grooming habits, because it’s officially November, which marks the start of Movember, the global campaign that encourages men to grow mustaches throughout the month.
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