It is weird how mustaches fell out of fashion. Just about any other format/combo of facial hair is acceptable these days, but a mustache (and nothing more) has become a rarity.
I don’t think I know a single guy who I encounter in my daily life who sports a 'stach. Certainly no family members. No one at work that I can think of.
I have to believe that soup strainers will re-emerge as fashionable one day. Maybe I’ll get it kick-started myself and then accept all the credit for being a trendsetter.
How about you? Do you know anyone with a mustache, and no other facial hair?
A few guys in the military, because the military allows them, but it’s the only facial hair the US military allows (except for some people who have religious exceptions-- I know a rabbi who is a reserve chaplain and has a full beard).
Also, the actor who plays Bernadette’s father on TBBT has one. He’s the only actor I can think of off-hand on a non-costume drama with one.
My father had one, and I know if he were still alive he’d still have it, fashionable or not.
My son has the faintest beginnings of one. I hope early puberty means he will stop growing early, because he is 10, and already 5’1. If he keeps growing the way he’s growing, he’ll be 6’7. I’d rather he were a more manageable 6-even. His feet and hands are already bigger than mine.
Me too. I had a goatee (variation) for a while in my 20’s when my facial hair was still dark. My boyfriend at the time liked it because he said it made me look Mephistophelean (i.e. wicked). I shaved it off because I was tired of the upkeep. A mustache and shaving the rest is much easier. I don’t have sideburns either.
So I have had just a mustache for something like 40 years. I keep it because I think my upper lip is too long, and also because I have a mole there that I don’t like.
Mine has morphed into a goatee, which in turn has morphed into a full beard, kept at #2 along with the rest of my head hair. That all can change back and forth, except for the 'stache, which is permanent. I haven’t seen my upper lip since 1963.
I tried one once, and my wife was horrified by it. I can do a goatee pretty well, or a full beard passably, but just the mustache is an awful look for me.
The guy who owns the company I currently work for is probably in his late 60s. He has a mustache and no beard. He’s the only mustachioed person I can think of that I run into personally.
I work with a lot of guys from India. Every single one of them has a mustache and no other facial hair. I also have a couple of friends in my demographic group (old white guys) who have mustaches.
Tom Selleck still sports one. There was a brief time where he tried to go without one, but it was his signature and he went back to it. Still suits him, dyed though it may be.
