I was doing some fact-finding about george orwell’s early life for a class project, and his facial hair while he was a cop is…um…well, I’m going to choose to interpret it as performance art about the nature of the police as an force of state oppression, but…I really can’t use this picture in my project. For obvious reasons.
It was a common choice back then before Hitler made everyone associate it with him. I believe it’s called the Toothbrush mustache.
IIRC Hitler model his grooming style from Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid persona
The little tramp
The pic must have been in the 1920’s? Probably the moustache wasn’t that… iconic back then.
Edit. It’s not like he wore it after WWII, like, as a super random example chosen for no particular reason, Trump’s dad did :P
Haven’t seen what you refer to yet.
Sorry which part?
Wait till you see what Charlie Chaplin looked like
It was called a toothbrush moustache
That was from 1922. People back then used this moustache a lot. Here (Brazil) it was known as “bigode de brocha” (paintbrush* moustache), until… well, you know.
*more specifically, a “brocha” is a paintbrush like this, used for large surfaces:
Not to be confused with “pincel” (small paintbrush for details). Or “broxa” (someone with ED), even if both sound the same… sorry, couldn’t resist.Of course you can use it.
Stupid to imply otherwise.
@Shkshkshk i think about this often… isn’t it kinda amazing one man ruined an entire facial hair style? like has anything happening like this before?
lets hope comb overs get the same fate…
@onehundredninetysix @Shkshkshk according to legend, hitler visited english relatives and was convinced to trim his wide German mustache to the british model
Kinda reminds me of Charlie Chaplin
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