# Mustaches taboo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 7, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723 "2009-11-07T15:51:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/41 "2009-11-10T01:33:54Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > Before I got married, I had a beard, mustache, and a pony tail. After our marriage, my wife asked me to shave and get a haircut, just to see what I looked like. (I was tired of the ponytail anyway.) Her first word upon seeing me: “Yuk.” :eek: Of course she changed her tune after seeing his two bits. 😃 _HEE HEE HAA HAAA HAW HAWWW_ ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/42 "2009-11-10T01:44:12Z")
An interesting book for those hirstute and not: [One Thousand Beards](http://www.amazon.com/One-Thousand-Beards-Allan-Peterkin/dp/1551521075/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257815779&sr=1-1). ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/43 "2009-11-10T04:58:44Z")
The Cincinnati Reds didn’t lift their ban on mustaches and facial hair until 1999. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/44 "2009-11-10T15:36:36Z")
Alex Trebek has look like a sad little drowned mouse to me ever since he shaved his moustache off. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/45 "2009-11-10T17:57:39Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Alex Trebek has look like a sad little drowned mouse to me ever since he shaved his moustache off. Agreed. Horrible decision. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/46 "2009-11-10T20:40:35Z")
I am blessed (or cursed, depending on your perspective) with a baby face. Even at 48, if I shaved off my beard and moustache, I’d look ridiculously younger. Well, except for the seeming ever increasing grey hair. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/47 "2009-11-10T23:10:14Z")
> [@FluffyBob](#): > > Just to say it is not entirely true about younger (gen Y?) men not wearing moustaches. > > I often have young guys working for me and a lot of them gleefully embrace the 'Movember" thing, growing moustaches for this month at least. Yep, mustaches are coming back. Spread the word. This message brought to you by the Mustache Appreciation Society Local 780. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/48 "2009-11-10T23:22:47Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Many Peace Corps programs ban facial hair for all or part of volunteer’s service, with the explanation being that other countries may not have the same enlightened view of facial hair that we have. Do the Peace Corps programs have examples of some such countries? Off the top of my had, I can’t think of a country that would be _more_ averse to facial hair than people are in the USA, where, in my experience, the clean-shaven look is still preferred. Unless perhaps some Far East countries? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/49 "2009-11-11T00:53:46Z")
Beards were big in the Navy for a while but now they are banned. They allow mustaches now. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/50 "2009-11-11T02:49:11Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > Yep, mustaches are coming back. Spread the word. > > This message brought to you by the Mustache Appreciation Society Local 780. They are. I’m at the start of Gen Y and I’ve noticed mustaches (including rather cute retro 70s ones) appearing on guys in their 20s, along with fuller (non-goatee) beards. It’s not _really_ common but is a lot _more_ common than it was. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/51 "2009-11-11T15:10:52Z")
Yeah, I’d say full beards are more common with the early Gen-Y/late Gen-X crowd than moustaches alone. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/52 "2009-11-12T02:55:54Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Yeah, I’d say full beards are more common with the early Gen-Y/late Gen-X crowd than moustaches alone. Yep. I think too many of us have dads with mustaches and don’t see it as cool. It’s just not an option for many of us. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/53 "2009-11-12T05:24:49Z")
I don’t know how many of you remember, but mustaches were considered gay during much of the 70s and 80s. They were part of the urban gay “clone” look. ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723/54 "2009-11-18T21:36:27Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I believe that in Cuba only Castro is permitted to be bearded. This is not true, at least not now. It may have been frowned upon at one time to have a beard and not be military or former military, but nowadays beards are ok. Although why anyone would have a beard in 90 degree heat is beyond me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mustaches-taboo/516723.md?page=2)