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