The Moustache

[Chasseur]

Hi

O.K. how did the man drink beer? There must have been foam an inch thick in his stache when he drank one.

later

Protective Drink-Proof Snood of course! Standard issue after the great mess drip disaster of 1877.

[video=youtube;Daa8ZnxC-0Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daa8ZnxC-0Y[/video]

You can see one at about 20 seconds in the clip.

PS: on a serious note those are some great moustaches Daniel! I've always thought Foch's one particularly impressive.

 

[Nick D]

The snood Fry is wearing is only for wear at night, to help preserve the shape of the moustache. They're pretty much non-existant now.

For drinking men could use a moustache cup:

There were also detachable moustache guards:

For those who were really concerned there were moustache spoons:

I have two pottery coffee mugs I had custom made with guards, and an antique cup and saucer (which has sadly cracked and needs replacing). I want to get a detachable guard. I'll add a spoon to my collection, but more as a curiosity.

But lacking all those things, yes, you're an inch deep in foam. Tipping the head back a bit when drinking helps, and having extra napkins or a handkerchief to hand.

 

[dnjan]

Now these men knew how to foster a proper moustache back then. Seems like there were a lot more of them too.

Dan

Of course, back then, it was all straight razors. Perhaps a correlation???

 

[DanielJones]

Of course Oregon Wild Hair offers a nice stoneware moustache mug.

Or maybe something without a logo on it. Something a tad more refined too for those moments. May have to keep my eye out on ebay for one.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

In the meantime, here are some more inspirational images from The Great War.

General Carlo Porro Di Santa Maria, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army

General Vittorio Zupelli, Italian Minister of War

German General Hermann von Stein, Prussian Minister of War

General Aleksiei Aleksieevich Brusilov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army

Gen. Tasker H. Bliss

General Sir Julian Byng

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Some more great Tombstone images.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Buck Taylor, actor, artist and real cowboy.

And the real rancher, turned hatter, that made the Hats for Tombstone, Tom Hirt.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

A little something on the oddities side of things.

Sylvester the cowboy mummy.

Cheech & Chong

Ming the Merciless

Dr. Arliss Loveless

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Jim Broadbent as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge

John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (not the grandest, but a moustache nonetheless)

 

[DanielJones]

Inspector Clouseau

And some other Peter Sellers moustaches.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Trotsky, a funky moustache with a funky head of hair. Like that guy from Ancient Aliens.

Stalin. A great moustache connected to an anal nut bag.

And speaking of anal nut bags, Adolf before he trimmed his stache, wigged out and tried to take over the world.

Just think, if he kept the pointy stache and became a surrealist, he could have been competition for Dali. He could have been celebrated as a nutty artist instead of thought of as a monster of the first order.


Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

A little inspiration on the tamer side of moustaches.
Terry Thomas

Errol Flynn

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Everyones favorite villain, Captain James Hook.

As played by Dustin Hoffman

and Jason Isaacs

and voiced by Hans Conried

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

And I'll leave you with these few to mull over too.
The epic painted on moustache. Groucho Marx.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pencil thin, John Waters.

Viggo Mortensen in Appaloosa grew an epic 'stache.

Wilford Brimley

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Nick D]

Or maybe something without a logo on it. Something a tad more refined too for those moments. May have to keep my eye out on ebay for one.

Cheers!

Dan

I recently took a look at the US eBay, it's chock-full of moustache cups, several times more than the UK eBay.

 

[HadleyH]

Pulitzer Prize winner William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981)

 

[DanielJones]

Melchett's moustache snood

I always wondered if it was Stephen Fry's own growth or a glue on. In any case it is a grand one.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Here's a couple of good ones that could be avatars.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet

Frank Zappa

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Not quite a Melchett moustache but getting there.

Cheers!

Dan