![]() Now, no one would say anything about it.” ![]() It seemed like when Michael Jordan did it, then it became cool. “Yeah, Telly Savalas was a freak thing, and he pulled it off, but nobody copied it. Now, shaved heads are just not a big thing. “In the ‘70s and ‘80s, if anyone had shaved their heads, even if they were losing their hair, you would not have walked around that way. You had the longer hair, and you had the mustache.” “The Tom Selleck era, that was the era I was in. I asked if it bothers him that among the under-40 set, mustaches are pretty nearly punchlines. She sang us an a cappella “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” or Helen Reddy’s “You and Me Against the World,” while he just ground his whiskers into our cheeks and dusted our noses with his pushbroom. Now, my own vivid memory from that time is chiefly the different ways my parents tucked us in at night. As much as it could, the ‘stache lent him an air of enforceability. For another, he was, at 145-pounds, the smallest cop on the force. In fact, circumstances made it advisable. It was nothing for my old man to grow his mustache in the mid-70s. My decision to grow a mustache now is no doubt influenced by my earliest memories of manhood. ![]() 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. If ever ‘twas the season for mustaches, the time is nigh. ![]()
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