AGI – “I turned 40 this year and have two small children. Wearing a mustache makes me feel more like a dad, but like a fun dad,” Los Angeles-based screenwriter Micah Fitzerman-Blue told The New York Times. in the act of shaving, he suddenly stopped, looked at himself in the mirror, and then decided to do it Don’t erase the strip of hair between your nose and mouth.
Yes, the mustache. Able to evoke everything from rugged masculinity to whimsical irony to the heartfelt hilarity of a father.they are experiencing a new season“, assures the US newspaper. You’re back in fashion. And although it’s difficult to separate them from the trend of wearing beards, specialists in the genre say that “the uptick” in people’s faces is “significant and new.”
Once a hallmark of “unbridled pornstars and icons” personalities, according to the newspaper countercultural or from old-fashioned motives” the mustache is today only a counterpart to the beard. And there’s more than one reason: Mustaches, for example, are “index of masculinity‘ but at the same time ‘playful’, especially in a world that ‘enjoys new ways of interacting with opposite sexes’. Especially after a decade of growing beards, also aided by the ongoing pandemic lockdowns that have allowed many people to “try them out and realize they’ve liked and given.”
According to Matty Conrad, who runs several hair salons in Vancouver and a popular YouTube channel dedicated to facial hair care, mustaches have “replaced beards for more than a decade” today.
There are people who observe that those who suffer from baldness often find it on the mustache a sanctuary, a new style and look. And those who once sported a beard and trimmed it to keep the mustache find that they’ve received new attention, seen through different eyes, and even received compliments on their new looks. Mustaches, according to the New York Times, “are becoming more and more common in queer clubs in the late 2010s, particularly “thin specimens that complete the sexual aesthetic, well-crafted and made of leather and harness à la Tom of Finland,” the Finnish designer and illustrator known for his homoerotic drawings that influenced 20th-century gay culture.
In short, the mustache’s popularity has always been particularly dependent on cultural icons and current trends, so much so that “British soldiers were forbidden to shave their upper lip until 1916, perhaps for this reason.” deep association of the mustache with masculinity and strength“. Then they also became the object of irony or ridicule: “Charlie Chaplin’s toothbrush moustache, a small speck above the lip, was adopted precisely for its humorous charm before it was associated with the character Adolf Hitler and never became trendy again.” In the 1970s and 1980s, the sharp stylistic divide “between mainstream and counterculture” began to disappear and mustaches became associated “with…”. bravery “male,” especially when it comes to faces like “Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott,” etc.
By the late ’90s, however, mustaches were so out of fashion that few thought they would ever make a comeback. But they were rediscovered shortly thereafter, so much so that today the mere mustache, which requires minimal maintenance, indicates that the wearer “is a person who prides himself on his style,” assures the newspaper Big Apple”.
