I would like to ask men why they have mustaches. Why have one? Does it compliment your face? I think if I grew one, my wife would make me cut it off. During my experimentation with facial hair in college, I decided for the shaven look, because it feels so much better. When I experimented with a three day growth of mustache, I realized I disliked hair under my nose and having to be careful eating and drinking things.
There is a kid I know in his early 20’s (we don’t like each other too much, but we vaguely run in the same bar circles) who grew a mustache. A small, black, trimmed one. Looked like a cop mustache and wanted to make fun of him, but I decided not too.
Honestly, I would hate to live in some Muslim place like Afghanistan where I was not allowed to shave anf having to have this huge ZZ Top like beard which I got to sleep in at night, or be from Iraq or a Latin country where a mustache is seen as part of being a man, for whatever reasons.
Yes, some men look good with mustaches. Burt Reynolds. Tom Selleck, Theodore Roosevelt, etc. I just never cared for them and think they look a bit silly. I wouldn’t hire someone for having a mustache though. It’s just unprofessional. Many places will not allow their workers to grow beards. Beards are OK.
I can also ask the same about sideburns. Why have a strip of hair on both sides of the head next to the ears. I don’t do sideburns either. I shave it off up to the hairline. To me it would be too much bother to measure it to make sure it is of equal length.
Ultimately it’s just fashion yeah? I think though that mustaches improve the look of men who have a big nose and a beard can nicely hide a receded chin.
That sentence doesn’t make much sense. You wouldn’t hire someone for having a mustache? Do you mean you wouldn’t fire someone for having a mustache? But then you say it’s unprofessional, so maybe you wouldn’t hire someone. Then you go on to say beards are ok. Why are beards ok but mustaches aren’t? I think any facial hair is fine for most jobs as long as it is a conservative cut and is neatly trimmed.
Your “hairline” is an arbitrary line defined by where you happen to shave up to. Sideburns are easily measured in about a second by looking in the mirror, it’s not hard. I suspect you really don’t do them because you don’t much like them, which is fine.
I’m curious, Captain Midnight, how old are you exactly? Your OP reads like it came from a child noticing for the first time that some people dress, speak, act, and groom themselves differently than he does, and assuming (wrongly) that this is a perfectly good reason to ridicule them.
Agreed. Better not meet me then, because at the moment I have a moustache that meets up with my sideburns, and a soul patch. Called a Lemmy or friendly mutton chops Looks bloody good on me too. Facial hair is just fashion, but most mens’ faces can be improved with a carefully selected and cut facial hair style. A goatee or beard can hide a weak chin, sideburns define a soft jaw, s soul patch might serve to break up a long narrow face, moustaches in all their permutations can accent the face of a man with a small upper lip, and help hide a long, droopy mouth that naturally frowns. Don’t forget the benefits of hiding acne scars, naturally ruddy or uneven skin, or bad pores. Some men just use it as a fashion choice. Why the hate?
Some men grow moustaches because they feel like growing moustaches. It is as immaterial as to whether they part their hair on the right, the left or the middle. It has less indication of what type of person he is than does his choice of what color jacket he wears.
Honestly, I would hate to live in Midnightistan, where I was not allowed to grow whatever facial hair I like.
(I haven’t had a beard for about seven years-- it was coming in more salt than pepper and made me look older than I wanted. I expect to grow it back when it is all white so I can either look like Captain Ahab or Papa Hemingway, depending on whether I feel like growing a moustache with it. I have an old scar on my upper lip, and so I need to grow tha moustache fairly long before it lies well.)
(And, on re-reading the OP, there is a descriptive term for any man who allows his wife to dictate how he wears his hair.)
Well, you know, a really good looking man looks good in any style facial hair.
Regarding the OP: mustaches look great on a lot of men (Acid Lamp and my hubby for example). To your question of “why” I simply say “why not?”. A mustache is a beautiful thing.
I haven’t seen my upper lip since 1963. I’ve had 'staches, goatees, full beards, sideburns, Fu-Manchus . . . but always a 'stache. And the way guys are destroying their eyebrows these days (don’t get me started), it’s nice to see guys with some hair on their faces.
