In my travels I see them with some frequency. Waxed handle-bars are a thing with skinny hipster guys in urban areas. It seems that a lot of guys from India in tech jobs have mustaches.
I swap back and forth between just a mustache and a full beard, based on the season. The mustache by itself didn’t start happening until after I had a sprog, though; there’s something very Dadly about having a ridiculous mustache. Also, I make a scarily accurate Bob Belcher for Halloween.
The CEO of our company does. He’s otherwise a really handsome man but the 'stache just does not suit. We have many South Asian men here and I don’t think I’ve seen a single one with a mustache. Didn’t Tom Selleck grow his back after going clean shaven for a while?
The young manager at the local Chick-fil-A has a handlebar cookie duster, like he’s working at the Shakey’s Pizza (think Snidely Whiplash).
I know a couple of people at work who still sport the mustache-only look. You know engineers are famed for their fashion sense.
And of course there is John Stossel.
I think I should have exluded handlebars in my OP. I think those fit a different category of dude.
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My wife’s uncle, my friend’s dad, a dude I work with and a dude at my church. So: 4.
Most special forces operators that I know have full beards, so it’s not only religious exceptions.
I can think of a few. An older attorney I now has one as well as the architect whose office is down the hall. He’s older as well.
I saw a young guy at the bike shop with one. I had one for a few weeks about 8 years ago. I kept it mainly to irritate my wife, and shaved it off after a while.
Our city’s fire chief has one. I’d say he’s about 50 years old.
That’s what I was going to say… the Indian guys I work with almost all sport pretty solid mustaches. Also, they’re not entirely uncommon among Hispanic men that I see out and about.
Outside of those two groups, I can’t think of anyone under 50-60 who only has a mustache. There are some folks above that 50-60 year old limit who do- my FIL is one.
My 18-year-old son has one.
Forgot to mention I also live in the Midwest. Yes, I know I’m not cool, but that doesn’t usually bother me.
I was active duty in the Navy, and now I work as a civilian for the Navy.
Let’s just say there’s no lack of mustaches among my acquaintances.
I had one about a year and a half ago. The whole family dressed as characters from the movie Frozen for Halloween. I was Wandering Oaken. Yoo-hoo! I usually have a goatee, so in preparation, I spent part of September and October growing out a full beard, then shaved my chin for Halloween.
That kind of facial hair is too crazy to keep, so after Halloween I shaved the sides and left myself with a horseshoe-style mustache while I waited for the middle to fill back in.
This is exactly me but you can remove “more or less” and I guess for the grammar nazis we can change “continually” to “continuously”.
One of my brothers.
Me, had it since 1980. I shaved it off for the hell of it about 10 years ago, and it freaked out my kids whom had never seen me without it. So I grew it back.
Not me, never, and I don’t see a lot of them where I live (Brooklyn, New York), although some of the hipster contingent seem to like exotic handlebar moustaches.
But it seems to be almost the default among middle-aged to elderly men where my wife is from (Newfoundland, Canada, or maybe it’s just her town).
Every guy seems to have one. Her father, all his friends, everyone I see on the street (admittedly not much of a street – you can walk from one end of it to the other in ten minutes).
The only one I can think of is a colleague of mine; he also likes to wear lady’s footwear…Yeah, he’s a bit unconventional.