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The dynamic rise and fall of the mustache, a mustache history documentary for Movember!
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From social activists to dictators, the mustache— or moustache, for our non-American viewers— has proven a controversial form of facial hair. We jump into the wild history of upper lip hair and answer questions like: why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard? Why do Amish men shave their mustaches?
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SOURCES
“Are Beards Obligatory for Devout Muslim Men?” BBC News, BBC, 27 June 2010, www.bbc.com/news.
Bedi, Rahul. “Low-Caste Indian Men Attacked for Growing Moustaches.” The Telegraph, 10 Oct. 2017, webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:td7VjBOWgzcJ:www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/low-caste-indian-men-attacked-growing-moustaches/ &cd=20&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.
Deane, Bradley. Masculinity and the New Imperialism: Rewriting Manhood in British Popular Literature, 1870-1914. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Hawksley, Lucinda. “The Moustache: A Hairy History.” BBC Culture, BBC, 2014.
Oldstone-Moore, Christopher. “Mustaches and Masculine Codes in Early Twentieth-Century America.” Journal of Social History, vol. 45, no. 1, 2011, pp. 47–60., doi:10.1093/jsh/shr002.
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Peterkin, Allan. One Thousand Mustaches: a Cultural History of the Mo. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012.
Robinson, Dwight E. “Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard: The Men of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1972.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 81, no. 5, Mar. 1976, pp. 1133–1141., doi:10.1086/226188. Source for the graph shown in the beginning. While there are some geographic and socioeconomic shortcomings with regard to sampling (and extrapolating the data), I believe it still is still largely representative of facial hair trends in the West.
Walton, Susan. “From Squalid Impropriety to Manly Respectability: The Revival of Beards, Moustaches and Martial Values in the 1850s in England.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 30, no. 3, 2008, pp. 229–245., doi:10.1080/08905490802347247.
Withey, Alun. “Beards, Whiskers and the History of Pogonotomy.” Sage Gateshead. BBC Free Thinking Festival , Nov. 2014, Gateshead, UK, www.academia.edu/9426915/Beards_Whiskers_and_the_History_of_Pogonotomy. GymYWJcWlYw |