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.
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in reply to Xilabar the Dice Goblin • • •guillem
in reply to Xilabar the Dice Goblin • • •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 😛
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in reply to guillem • • •qkall
in reply to Xilabar the Dice Goblin • •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....
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in reply to Xilabar the Dice Goblin • • •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:\
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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.