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Moustache

  • 24-07-2006 2:22pm
    #1
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    Dateline: December 31st 1989. The last moustache in Ireland (and perhaps Western Europe?) begins it's growth.

    So the big question is, why don't people (in particular men) wear moustaches anymore?

    Whilst I know people with beards, smigs and all variety of facial hair I don't personally know anyone who has a moustache (or to be precise has a moustache that hadn't began growth prior to 31/12/89)

    So what happened to it once the 80's ended? Does anyone here wonder where it went (or even notice it was gone)? Why did it become unpopular? Will it ever make a reappearance in our lifetimes? A lot of things from the 60s/70s/80s are cool again in our identityless noughties but not the faithful moustache .... yet!

    Would you ever sport a moustace? Ladies, feel free to answer that as well.


Comments

  • #2
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Perhaps the offers to be in German porn just weren't rolling in like they should have.


  • #3
    yossarin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭yossarin


    I think the kiss of death was when it got associated with gay fashion - It had been quite the matcho look before that. Straight men didn't want to wear them anymore.

    I myself have a ratty programmers beard, which i am moderatly pleased with.


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Whenever I think of a moustache, its usually brings me the image of that chap in the Village People or Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I (good show)*shudder*. Just not for me. :)


  • #5
    ball ox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭ball ox


    "do i have a ronnie?"


  • #6
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    yossarin wrote:
    I think the kiss of death was when it got associated with gay fashion - It had been quite the matcho look before that.

    Yes I guess the whole gay image perpetuated by the Village people has done damage to it's reputation eg
    Village People

    But that doesn't take away that there was some great moustaches down the years. For example
    1 , 2 , 3


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  • #7
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    What about this true pioneer for the moustache? :)

    inside-flanders.jpg


  • #8
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I think it's more of a beard association. I've got a mustache, but that's because I've got a beard. If I had the beard without the 'stache, it'd look a bit Mormon like. People are so used to see beards and mustaches together, that it seems almost odd to have one without the other.

    My €0.02 anyway.


  • #9
    fuzzywiggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭fuzzywiggle


    Many of my female friends sport a mustache, so as long as there's dark haired women out there they'll never be out of fashion.
    I don't think many men wear them anymore beause they've finally copped on that they're horrible.


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