The aesthetic spread throughout the country. So on one hand the mustache was aligned with the status quo think firemen and cops , while on the other it became shorthand and occasionally handlebar for the sexual outsider: the swinger, the porn star, the gay man. But generally speaking, in modern American history, the mustache has been a consistency, not a telegraph of any mode of temporal identity, for Black men.
At the same time as Star Wars , there was Magnum, P. The Alex Trebek, if you will. More than a decade later, as that generation moves into management and ownership positions, the result is a more open world, in terms of the facial hair we can sport. Facial hair experts argue that the mustache reappears at times when masculinity is under threat. But what happens when masculinity is in a process of being redefined, as is gender?
Contemporary masculinity has been redefined in so many ways, with far-reaching implications. One of them is that nowadays, your mustache gets to be less of a signpost, and more of a mustache, than ever. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Every 'Bond' Film Ever, Ranked. Leaving Afghanistan Behind. Getty Images. Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian mountaineer and explorer, late 19th-early 20th century. Print Collector Getty Images.
The Beatles, mostly mustached during the Sgt. Pepper era. Alex Trebek. Charlie Chaplin. Albert Einstein. Vincent Sandoval Getty Images. Sam Elliott. Mark Twain. His books are classic American literature. His mustache is classic American walrus. Friedrich Nietzsche. David Harbour as Hopper. Frida Kahlo. General Ambrose Burnside. You know your look is iconic when sideburns are literally named after you.
Burt Reynolds. The actor, who rose to fame in the '70s and '80s, still rocks his famous mustache to this day. Theodore Roosevelt. Tom Selleck. Groucho Marx.
Even though the mustache was fake, it's still regarded to be one of the most iconic of all time. Clark Gable. Martin Luther King Jr. Pix Inc. Walter Cronkite. John Waters. Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya. Freddie Mercury. The Queen frontman rarely performed without his mustache in tow. Aaron Rapoport Getty Images. Lionel Ritchie. Nick Offerman. Rollie Fingers. Focus On Sport Getty Images. Reggie Jackson.
Mike Ditka. Keith Butler. Rebecca Romijn. The younger generation eventually kicked out against all this hairy fashion. Lord Byron kept his face free of hair except for a romantically curling, slender moustache, going against the prevailing facial hair conventions, just as he did in all other aspects of his life.
For several decades the Byronic style was the sexiest look around and moustaches ruled the roost — but all that was to change in , with the Crimean War and the return of the massive beard. When the war ended in , returning soldiers were barely recognisable behind their vast crops of facial hair. Deciding that beards were the signs of heroes British men started once again to grow their own.
It was a dark time for the moustache. By the end of the 19th Century, beards were finally out of fashion, except amongst older, conservative men.
Throughout Europe and North America, new rules were made to prevent bearded men from handling food and bearded hospital patients began to be shaved, whether they wanted to be or not. The future was looking smooth-chinned and moustachioed. Meanwhile the moustache was aided in its war of dominance against the beard, by a different type of conflict.
Yet for those who yearned to grow a moustache, times were hard — only certain ranks in the military were permitted to grow moustaches. When the war ended, a moustache revolution began. The moustache had become the symbol of the modern man. In , a young Agatha Christie published her first crime novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing Hercule Poirot and his famous moustaches. In Hollywood, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Ronald Colman sported moustaches that could make a heroine swoon — but as the world entered an economic depression, the moustache-on-the-street became an endangered species.
In Spain, the moustache was entering the world of Surrealism.
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