The Fall of the Moustache

[Hurricane Jack]

Close, HH but the shorts are a little long.

I just noticed the name tag...Officer Dangle. LOL!

 

[2jakes]

I just noticed the name tag...Officer Dangle. LOL!

Great observation.
I’d like to add something but ...I can’t stop laughing!

 

[2jakes]

Beard ads are infiltrating my iPhone.
Well....at least it’s on topic.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Great observation.
I’d like to add something but ...I can’t stop laughing!

Reminds me of that scene from the movie "Porkys",

"Why do they call you Meat?"

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[HudsonHawk]

I just noticed the name tag...Officer Dangle. LOL!

If you've never seen Reno 911 you should give it a look. Some of it is just plain rolling on the floor hysterical.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I can't help but think it's by design when you read the script, then look over his shoulder you see a clean shaven male with a serious set of man-boobs.

 

[2jakes]

Products and ads I grew up with that illustrated trust & beards.

 

[2jakes]

Folks with mustaches that have made me laugh:

Even though it wasn’t real, he made me laugh as well.

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"Look...I Don’t Make This Stuff Up.....I Just Notice it.”

 

[Cap_7597]

Interesting Topic. It actually would be cool to have a topic just for pics of Staches and also infor those who wear them. I might start a topic about it and see where it goes.

I don't think they ever actually went out of style. I see men wearing them, just not in a flashy way.

I do enjoy my Handlebars...

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[Zombie_61]

I can't speak for all of society, but in this part of California the demise of the mustache in the mid-1980s came about because of a phrase that wouldn't be coined until two decades later: "Porn 'stache". Mustaches were quite popular among male adult film actors of the mid- to late-70s and early-80s, and most of the men I knew who either suddenly shaved off their mustaches or added a beard or goatee cited that as the reason. "Too many people said I looked like a porn star." Of course, it really depended on the mustache, as most of those guys could barely grow anything that even remotely resembled one; the ones who could grow a thick, full mustache had nothing to worry about.

 

[Tiki Tom]

"Too many people said I looked like a porn star."

How would they know what a porn star looks like?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I can't speak for all of society, but in this part of California the demise of the mustache in the mid-1980s came about because of a phrase that wouldn't be coined until two decades later: "Porn 'stache". Mustaches were quite popular among male adult film actors of the mid- to late-70s and early-80s, and most of the men I knew who either suddenly shaved off their mustaches or added a beard or goatee cited that as the reason. "Too many people said I looked like a porn star." Of course, it really depended on the mustache, as most of those guys could barely grow anything that even remotely resembled one; the ones who could grow a thick, full mustache had nothing to worry about.

The porn star stache was nothing new. It was known as the Fu Manchu before porn became more "mainstream".

 

[Trenchfriend]

I think, for Germany, Hulk Hogan did really his part in killing the mustache for a undefined period, here. And additional, movies with motorcycle-cops with mustache or Goose in "Top Gun" and all that. That's probably the reason, why many German find mustaches "pornish" or often "homosexual".

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Now this is a stache.

 

[Bamaboots]

Now this is a stache.

Is a nice stache, but straight hipster looking dude.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Is a nice stache, but straight hipster looking dude.

A model no doubt.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Still, and always, the most beloved moustache in New England.

 

[Bamaboots]

Still, and always, the most beloved moustache in New England.

Lizzie, I've never been a huge baseball fan but if the Red Sox were on TV and I knew he was pitching, I always watched. He's still got the look.

 

[Zombie_61]

"Too many people said I looked like a porn star."

How would they know what a porn star looks like?

The porn star stache was nothing new. It was known as the Fu Manchu before porn became more "mainstream".

It was nothing new, but with cable television, VCRs, and "home video" becoming more commonplace in the early 1980s adult movies did indeed become more mainstream simply because people who would not want to be seen entering or exiting an "adult" movie theater suddenly had access to those movies in the relative privacy of their own homes. Some of the stigma associated with being an adult movie fan diminished, but there was still a difference between knowing what a porn star looked like and wanting to look like one. Again, this applies only to my personal observations here in southern California, so I can't say I'd have the same opinion if I had grown up in the midwest or somewhere on the east coast.

Now this is a stache...

It is impressive, but I wonder if it would be as impressive if he shaved the beard and revealed he had a "weak" chin; a thick, properly shaped beard can hide a number of "flaws".