My dad also had one in the Seventies.
Yep, my Daddy has had a mustache almost all of my life… it’s white now.
My father born in 1918 never had a mustache. I don’t thin my grandfather ever did either. He certainly didn’t while I was aware and I’ve never seen a picture of him with one.
I grew one in 1976 when I started teaching grad school and some of the students were older than I. I shaved it off the year my son went to kindergarten and he brought home all kinds of colds so I constantly had a stopped up or runny nose. That lasted about a year and I’ve had one ever since (1983).
I just learned about a distant cousin with a mustache.
Never knew him w/o a beard & moustache.
My most recent male ancestors with facial hair were my great great grandfathers. Nearly every one of them. Then clean-shaven faces all the way down until I reversed the trend.
Mine had one until I was maybe 5. Our family traditionally was Russian Orthodox-Original Ritualists so it was basically religious although being in the mines and then mills he kept it fairly short. Around the time I was starting school, for no real reason I was ever given, he decided to drop it and never had one the second half of his life. His father was also bearded. Mothers side of the family migrated early more towards Georgia (Republic) and then Germany and most of them were reformed and clean-shaven.
I’ve had my beard most of my life since about age 12 although for the last ten years or so the upper lip is mostly clean; basically for the same reasons/reasoning as the Amish - separation from the military through their custom of allowing a mustache but not beards.
My dad had a mustache, had a mustache and beard, and was clean-shaven, at various different times. I think he just liked to “shake things up” every once in a while.
Nope, nor his father or his uncles; both of his grandfathers had the Buffalo Bill kind of moustache and beard, but the beards were shorter than Mr. Cody’s.
One of Dad’s brothers had a full beard for decades; when he shaved we were all surprised to see how much he looked like another of the brothers. They looked a lot more similar in their 60s than they had before Uncle Ig grew his beard.
Yep, he always had one. Beard, too. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Luciano Pavarotti.
When he doing his military service in France, the rule at the time was that soldiers had to either be clean-shaven, or they had to grow out a full beard. He opted for the latter.
When he came to America in '65 and started working as a high school French teacher, the superintendent told him he’d have to shave his beard and mustache. His response was simply, “Non, I do not think so.” (which, looking back, was pretty gutsy for a 23-year-old in a new country starting his first job). The superintendent decided to let him, rationalizing it as “cultural authenticity”, but refused to allow any other teachers to grow one until well into the '70s.
My dad tried to grow a 'stache once. It just didn’t suit him and I’m pretty sure our endless mocking (OK, we were just little kids, but we had opinions) made him change his mind. I don’t think my mom liked it, either.
My brother had a mustache for a short time, and a younger male cousin did, but I don’t think any other men in the family sported any facial hair.
My husband’s father had a full beard when we met (as did my husband) but a few years later, he went to just a mustache. My husband has had a full beard for most of the last 34 years, with a few short-term flirtations with just a 'stache or variations on a goatee. I prefer a neatly-groomed full beard on him.
Once, for about twenty minutes, in the 1960s.
I don’t think my mother approved.
Almost always. He tried the shaved look from time to time just to mix it up, but he looked better with a 'stache.
Honestly, while I look a lot like him, he was much more handsome. Check out this glorious 70’s hair and stache combo (which he’s rocking in 1983, I think.)
Great Ghu, no. Dad had a passionate hatred of any and all facial hair. That’s one of the reasons I grew a mustache the second I was able, and a beard the day I moved out.
Facial hair wasn’t a thing in my family. I have to go back to my great-grandpas to find the last of the mustaches. My dad always had short (and thinning) hair - not even sideburns. The same for both of my grandpas. I think one or two of my uncles may have sported a '70’s mustache and/or sideburns for a short while (in the actual '70’s!!).
One of my grandpas wore a mustache. My dad is a retired mail carrier. He used to grow a beard in the winter and shave it off in the spring.
Same here. I’ve never seen a picture of my father with facial hair, but his father had a moustache.
I’ve grown beards three times in my life, but don’t have one now.
My dad qrew a 'stache a couple of times, but they never lasted long. As far as I remember he never tried a beard. I have only shaved my moustache once, but grew it back immediately. OTOH, it really didn’t grow in until I was in my 20’s. For the last 2-3 years I’ve had a short beard - it took 50+ years to manage that much. The men in my family are just not that hairy.
The whole time I was growing up, my father was clean-shaven. He grew a moustache by itself in his later 40s and after he retired he pledged to never shave again. Since then he’s had the full facial hair; he clips it so it never gets too long, but he doesn’t shave.