What is this newfound preoccupation with the male ability to grow hair above their lip? I have no answers. I have started my own mini hoard of mustachioed accessories. If it is emblazoned, embossed, or painted with a mustache, I must own it immediately. I am just as infatuated with this trend as the next hipster kid with too-tight jeans, nonprescription glasses, a flannel shirt, completed with a sloppy yarn beanie. I am not sure where this blog is going yet - I have no endgame. Just wanted to ponder "aloud" what this is all about.
Does it come from those who came before us? Was it, at one time, a class distinction between the poor and the rich? It is incredibly dapper. Or is it just a symbol of pure and complete manliness? Something only a man's man can grow? I am not saying I adhere to this belief. I know many manly men who can't seem to convince the hair to come in full and glorious above their lip.
Let's think about some of the greatest mustaches we have ever witnessed: Ron Burgundy, George Clooney, Robert Goulet, Burt Reynolds, Freddie Mercury, Ben Affleck, what is a "mustahce," Alex Trebek? Even Zac Efron, with his baby face can pull off a decent mustache.
But let's not forget the pièce de résistance: Tom Selleck. Have you ever seen a more glorious mustache? Or a mustache so undeniably perfect that you would not even dare to think what that face would look like without it? And we have seen his face without it. Still handsome, but not my favorite. Just look at this face! Mr. Selleck, you make the rest of us jealous. You are a gentleman and a scholar. Witness:
And let's not forget this up and comer who is probably my new favorite: NICK OFFERMAN. "Man" is right there in his last name, so there is no debate. In the words of Nick Miller, "You smell like strong coffee and going to see a man about a horse." He is marvelous.
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