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Soul patches came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, as a style of facial hair common among African-American men, most notably jazz musicians. Frank Zappa is a well-known artist who sported one from the early sixties on. It became popular with beatniks, artists, and those who frequented the jazz scene and moved in literary and artistic circles.
Maintaining facial hair is more prevalent among African-American men than in other male populations in the U.S. [71] In fact, the soul patch is so named because African-American men, particularly jazz musicians, popularized the style. [72] The preference for facial hair among African-American men is due partly to personal taste, but also ...
A full beard that features a goatee, full mustache and horizontal chinstrap with all hairs on the upper cheeks and sideburns removed. [29] Ned Kelly beard. A beard with the length of more than 20 cm. A Ned Kelly beard is a style of facial hair named after 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly.
A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy and upwardly curved extremities. These moustache styles are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a bicycle. [1] It is also known as a spaghetti moustache, because of its stereotypical association with Italian men. [2][3] The Handlebar Club humorously describes the style ...
A pencil moustache is a thin moustache found adjacent to, or a little above the lip. [1][2] The style is neatly clipped, so that the moustache takes the form of a thin line, as if it had been drawn using a pencil. A large gap is left between the nose and the moustache. The line of facial hair either breaks across the philtrum, or continues ...
As a little boy of the early 1990s, there’s every possibility that Styles looked up to Hulk Hogan, perhaps even having posters on his wall of the wrestling legend in all his mullet and mustache ...
The toothbrush moustache is a style of moustache in which the sides are vertical (or nearly so), often approximating the width of the nose and visually resembling the bristles on a toothbrush. First becoming popular in the United States in the late 19th century, it later spread to Germany and elsewhere. Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and ...
An ethnic trait of Celts and Gauls, but strongly present in the Polish Sarmatian culture as well, the walrus moustache enjoyed immense popularity among men in the latter part of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries. Gentlemen ranging from scientists to philosophers to politicians often favored the rugged look that the style created.