# Moustache opinions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773 "2004-06-11T03:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/41 "2004-06-13T16:00:59Z")
**Do you wear one?** Yep, for the last four years, as part of a moustache-goatee combo platter. **Bushy or trimmed?** It covers my entire upper lip, but that’s it. I generally try to keep it trimmed. The goatee I let grow longer, somewhere between beatnik and Jesus. \*\*Why did you grow it? \*\* Honestly? I was bored, and I worked at a job where my appearance didn’t really matter. I gave it a try, and ended up liking the way it looked (as did my wife, which probably contributed more to my keeping it). **Might you get rid of it soon?** No plans to do so. Specific for straight men: **Do you think they look good on most guys?** By themselves, not really My wife occasionally suggests that I shave it off, but changes her mind pretty quickly when I remind her how I looked before I grew it. ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/42 "2004-06-14T00:03:44Z")
1. Yes, only a mustache. Ronald, doesn’t allow beards. 2. Trimmed, as a big guy a huge walrus mustache would be a mistake. 3. I was 17 when I grew it, it seemed appropriate at the time. 4. No. I once mentioned it to my wife, she Emphatically vetoed the idea. I have something of a baby face. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/43 "2004-06-14T03:47:39Z")
Moustache and beard. Grew the moustache in high school for a number of reasons. ``` a) It grows fast. So it always looked like I forgot to shave. b) This was in the days of the double-edge razor. Didn't handle the contours well. c) Shaving cream makes me sneeze. Sneezing while shaving with a double-edge razor -- not a great idea. ``` Not going to shave it anytime in the near future. I guess “bushy” is the best description. ``` After a hurricane knocked out electricity (and hot water) for a few days 20 years ago, I grew a full beard. Probably makes me look older. I don't think about it that much. Mostly it's just convenient -- saves lots of time shaving. ``` ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/44 "2004-06-14T17:31:16Z")
Moustache and full beard, kept neatly trimmed. I grew them when I was 17, mostly because I was really jazzed that I _could_ grow a beard at that age and have it look good. I know it looked good because my mom fought the idea tooth and nail until it actually came in, and then she gave it her unconditional approval. Every once in a great while, I wonder what I look like under the beard. But I still haven’t broken down and shaved it off in over 2 decades. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/45 "2004-06-14T18:28:10Z")
\*\*Men in general: Do you wear one?\*\* Moustache and beard; the beard is very thin running along my jawline, and expands a bit under my chin. **Bushy or trimmed?** Trimmed very short, mostly; sometimes I get lazy. **Why did you grow it?** Goes with the beard. I grew that to look older (I was getting carded routinely at 27, and it was embarassing my 47-year-old SO). Now I keep it because I like the mass it adds to my chin and the definition it adds to my jaw. **Might you get rid of it soon?** No. \*\*_Specific for straight men_: Do you think they look good on most guys?\*\* I really couldn’t care less, so I have no opinion. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/46 "2004-06-14T22:12:19Z")
I grew mine in 1974, when it was hip. Shaved it off in '91; grew it back six months later. I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that it’s no longer hip; I guess I fall into the state trooper/Tom Selleck wannabe/Village People category. But the only reason I even think about shaving it is that it’s turning grey faster than my head hair. Trimmed, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/47 "2004-06-15T14:15:27Z")
**Do you wear one?** I have worn a moustache for about twelve years now. **Bushy or trimmed?** Trimmed. It used to be larger than it is now, but I saw myself on TV when my neighbor was shot (long story) and it looked too big. Now I am more careful about trimming it. \*\*Why did you grow it? \*\* Wanted to see what it looked like. Most of the men in my family have facial hair, and I was the last to try it. I quit shaving my upper lip at the start of a vacation, and here I am. **Might you get rid of it soon?** No. I shaved it off once, and my daughter, who was three at the time, saw me and started crying and wouldn’t go near me for two days. The 'stache stays. **Do you think they look good on most guys?** Depends on the guy, I suppose. Handlebars look silly, as does the beard with no moustache look. Unkempt beards look bad in general, IMO. My son wants me to grow a Van Dyke. Not likely. Nor a soul patch, which is his other idea. He is fifteen. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/48 "2004-06-15T16:03:06Z")
Closely trimmed/cropped Fu Manchu - To hide a small mole (the male version of a beauty mark) on my jawline. TMI: Whether the Brush, Dali, Fu Manchu, Handlebar, Hitler/Chaplin, Military or the Zapata style; if you learn how to strategically wash around your m(o)ustache the following morning - you have yourself a _flavor saver_. Q: Why do the majority of Italian teenage boys grow a mustache? ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/49 "2004-06-15T18:53:59Z")
\*\*Men in general: Do you wear one?\*\* Yes, through right now it accompanies a full (though neatly trimmed) beard. **Bushy or trimmed?** I trim it whenever the proper use of a water fountain requires the application of a bath towel to prevent dripping, or when the near-swallowing of my upper lip interrupts an otherwise pleasant meal. In general I wear a fairly short handlebar. \*\*Why did you grow it? \*\* Grew my mustache originally back in college just to see what it would look like. I always thought it too thin and mangy, but my GF liked it. Plus it tended to annoy my family, so I kept it for four years. When my GF broke up with me I shaved it off. When my wife and I split up two years ago, I grew it back. Went to visit some college friends recently who drew me aside in a confidential manner and told me never to shave it off again. **Might you get rid of it soon?** The beard, maybe. I grew it for a theater role. Doesn’t look half bad as long as it’s trimmed, and I kind of like the speckles of premature gray. When I decide to shave it off will all depend on how long it takes before I get tired of shampooing my face. The mustache, though, I’m keeping. \*\*Specific for straight men: Do you think they look good on most guys?\*\* I have no opinion on the matter. I’m not in the habit of rating the attractiveness of other men’s faces, hirsute or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/50 "2004-06-16T02:15:02Z")
Nobody has seen my upper lip since the 60’s. I had a full beard for about 25 years, now an on-again-off-again goatee, but the 'stache is permanent (my partner likes it, and I like his). I think about 99% of guys look better with a 'stache or goatee (never a chin beard without the 'stache, unless you’re Mormon or a post-menopausal woman). A smaller percentage look good in a beard. I don’t know why people today are so anti-hair. Clipping body hair? Feh! Trimming eyebrows? Double feh! I can’t wait for that fad to pass. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773/51 "2004-06-16T04:34:26Z")
I think they look silly on anyone. LOL @ the guy who said they only belong at CHiPS theme parties. 'Nuff said! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moustache-opinions/249773.md?page=2)