Why Men Stopped Wearing Mustaches

Should mustaches make a comeback?
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I’ve had a full beard for 12 years and counting, but I keep it looking very proper. It’s just part of my look now. I asked my now wife if she wanted me to shave one time for our wedding, and she said hell no, your beard is you and I love it.

I started growing my moustache during 2020. People thought it was ridiculous and it made me stick with it. Dudes, if you want to wear a stache, don't let anyone bully you into cutting it until you want to.

(Female here.) It startled me when my brother grew a mustache for the first time, especially since he had such a difficult time growing facial hair and I usually only associated mustaches with cops. He looks amazing with it—it’s fluffy and well-groomed—and several of his friends have mustaches now. From a purely visual sense, it’s nice how styles can change. I enjoyed playing with facial hair styles for Arthur Morgan in RDR2, and the familiarity of seeing a certain style makes things more attractive. Keep being amazing, men! You’re amazing and we support you whatever cool style you come up with next.

I never wanted a beard, but shaving was so painful and unpleasant that I stopped before I had to shave every day, and that was at a time when beards were definitely out of fashion. At the same time, my boss was a retired Lt Col, who hated beards, but I took delight in ignoring him because i was running the most profitable area in the company, so he couldn't get rid of me. I'm now 75, and none of my current friends and acquaintances has ever seen me without a beard. Even today, the majority of my contemporaries are clean shaven, and the beard has become part of my increasingly eccentric persona. I can also state from long experience that there is no shortage of women who like men with beards.

My dad had a beard since he was able to grow it, and when he turned 30, he went for just the moustache. When he was in his 60s, he accidentally trimmed half of it and thought, well, time for a change. The cry of my mum when she saw him stache-less could be heard across the Atlantic. It was a serious marriage crisis, she felt he was a stranger without it.
(edit to say: the marriage crisis came not because of the accident, which could have been solved in a few days, but because my dad decided to stop having the moustache and my mum would not get used to it, he had to cave and go back to the moustache. Also kind of related, my dad passed of prostate cancer, thank you guys who keep doing movember and rising funds for cancer research)

I had a beard for many years until recently when I decided to try a moustache; my girlfriend saw a picture of my old man with his tache back in the day, and I'm the spitting image of him, so I tried it out. I gotta say I was surprised by how good it looked, and I'm not being arrogant- people kept telling me! Another fascinating video Antonio 🙂

I decided to grow the curly handlebar moustache two years ago, and I have heard so many compliments from people who love it. It's done so much for my self confidence!

I’m 17, started growing a stache this summer, at first as challenge, to see how much it would grow. I decided to keep it, it has boosted my confidence , I look older, and I get a lot of compliments from it. So yeah guys, don’t grow starches for the girls, do it for you.

My husband wore one because he had a thin upper lip. He shaved it once and the whole family insisted he grow it back. Had it when I met him and had it til he died.

Me, from Argentina. Mustaches were a must in the 1980s. Since 2014 I adopted the full clean shaved look. Four months ago I started using the chevron mustache on a whimp and I love it. People around me started to treat me different in a possitive way. Old men on the pavement would stare at me as if I remind them of an old friend from their younger years.
I feel from another epoch and I like it.

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One thing you didn't mention in the bit at the beginning about the longer history of the moustache is its importance in historical Celtic cultures. We know from depictions of Gauls, Picts, Irish and Britonic peoples from the early historical period that it was regarded as an important signifier of male status in these cultures. This contrasts with the Romans, who never wore moustaches (but sometimes beards). The Romans even represented this dichotomy in the famous sculpture of the (moustachioed) "Dying Gaul". It's interesting to then relate this dichotomy to later associations of the moustache with the military (either positively or negatively depending on the culture). See for example the ubiquity of the moustache amongs Napoleonic era cavalry hussars, long before it was popular in the military in general.

My general rule is "wear whatever style makes you feel good and works for you" and that's honestly all you need. I'm personally clean shaven because i look better that way and it doesn't come with any additional grooming needs, but it's also perfectly fine to have facial hair as long as again, you groom it properly to avoid being perceived negatively.

When I grew out a handlebar mustache years ago, my mother asked, "What kind of woman is going to date you with that?". I responded, "One that is truly attracted to me for who I am, and not some shallow trendy idiot." Now, the mustache has become a huge signifier of my identity. Friends gasp if I hint at shaving it off and my wife said she'll leave me if I do.

I have also found that people who don't like you because of your mustache are often weak of character... or karens.

Fun fact: Old full-bearded chemistry professors were thought to be better at crystallization techniques. It was until much later when chemists realized they've just unknowingly seeded the liquid with thousands of particles from their facial hair, thus initiating the crystallization sooner (due to more nucleation points coming from said impurities).
We now know that any hair is a vector of contamination as it collects airborne particles by e.g. electrostatic interaction. It is not much of an issue today thanks to advancements in technology - introduction of things like HEPA filters, positive pressure flow hoods or even cleanroom suits (a.k.a. "bunny suits" - came into pop-culture thanks to Intel commercials).

My hubby has always had a moustache since I first met him. He said he was as going to shave it off a couple of years ago, and I protested big time! He kept it.

As a woman, oddly found myself here, I love facial hair. As a teen I thought mustaches were gross but now that I’m an adult and I’m seeing more guys with mustaches… I think they look great. Love them.

I shaved my beard once and kept the mustache(a Big Sam elliot type), I found most women responded positively. It was men that had the negative reactions, from light hearted jokes to a few outright wanting to fight me for simply having it. I noticed a recurring trend among them, the men that reacted negatively universally were the ones that could not grow facial hair of thier own. What killed the mustache was that it became associated with porn and gay culture of the 70s and 80s.

I had a mustache from the age of 13-15, a full mustache with a goatee depending on how I was feeling, I grew the beard by the time I was 15, growing facial hair has never been a problem for me but now I’m 29 and I went back to the mustache, i just feel better with it