Hypothetical: Hitler stays clean-shaven from beginning to end.
How popular do you think that little moustache would be today without all that baggage that used to hang from it?
Never ever would I think that looked good on a man(or woman for that matter)
Especially blond.
It looks like a landing strip to who knows what,
Nope nope nope.
(But that’s just me)
Charlie Chaplin had his fans too, you know
As did Oliver Hardy.
I suppose many guys wore Chaplin moustaches. until Hitler wrecked that style for all time.
Of all the other moustache styles common in the early 20th century, how many are still common today? Nearly none. Yeah, somebody somewhere wears those glorious Civil War era whiskers & 'staches, but damned near nobody in terms of headcount.
Absent Hitler I think the toothbrush 'stache would have very few adherents today just because fashions change, and hairstyles seem to be especially slow to cycle back to popularity.
Hitler stole the stach from Chaplin. FWIW, my grandfather, born in 1898, wore the Hitler stach his whole adult life, but he had adapted it before Hitler rose to power. And although he never was a nazi, he kept his beard that way until he died in 1981. Why, I don’t know, I was 13 when he died and never asked him about it.
I thought I read that the reason for the moustache was so that it was compatible with a WW1 gas mask.
If you look at photos of Hitler from his service during WWI and shortly after, he rather wears a handlebar stach.
(sorry for posting pics of that horrible person)
“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.”
Yeah, the way I remember my grandfather, that probably would have been his answer.
I would guess that, while there would be more wearers than today, it wouldn’t be very popular.
There’s a lot of fads that seem never to have really come back, or at least that never caught on when brought back. Think about the soul patch, for instance. Having a similar little mouche under your nose instead of under your lower lip – what’s the point? I doubt it would ever come back and be popular.
Ron Mael sported one for most of the 1970s and '80s.
For a while there was the “hipsters with handlebar mustaches” thing. While that was never mainstream, I do wonder if hipsters would have gone for that narrow mustache had it not become associated with Hitler.
I was going to post about Ron.
Judging by the number of YouTube videos it looks like Sparks had quite a few gigs and TV appearances in Germany during the 1990s. In all of them Ron has a skinny John Waters ‘stache.
He switched to that thin stache and as far as I know, never went back to the Chaplin/Hitler version.