Toothbrush: The moustache made popular by Charlie Chaplin, but whose popularity hit a sharp decline thanks to one Adolph Hitler.Chevron: thick moustache covering the whole of the upper lip (think Jeff Foxworthy).Horseshoe: Similar to the Handlebar, but with vertical extensions coming off the sides that extend downwards sharply to the jaw, looking something like an upside down horseshoe (think Hulk Hogan).Handlebar Moustache: a somewhat bushy version of the Dali, but without the strict regulation of having the hair shaved past the side of the lips.Fu Manchu: moustache where the ends are styled downwards, sometimes even beyond the bottom of the chin.Imperial: Includes not only hair from above the upper lip, but also extends beyond into cheek hair, all of which is curled upward.English Moustache: Thin moustache with the hair on a line in the middle of the upper lip sideways, with the hair at the corner of the mouth slightly shaped upwards.Dali: Named after artist Salvador Dali (who incidentally once published a book, with Philippe Halsman, dedicated to Dali’s moustache, titled: Dali’s Mustache), styled such that the hair past the corner of the mouth is shaved, but the non-shaved hair is allowed to grow such that it can be shaped to point upward dramatically.Hungarian: Extremely bushy, with the hairs pulled to the side and with the hairs extending past the upper lip by as much as 1.5 cm.Names of the Various Styles of Moustache:.
Lord Kritchener sports his excellent mustache during WWI. The proud owner of that magnificent ‘stache was Indian Ram Singh Chauhan.
The longest moustache ever recorded was in Italy on March 4, 2010, and measured in at 14 ft. “De befborstel” is the Dutch slang for a moustache grown for the specific purpose of stimulating a woman’s clitoris. The depiction was of an Ancient Iranian horseman. 
The oldest known depiction of a man with a moustache goes all the way back to 300 BC. Western Women tend to wax or shave their moustaches, those that can grow them anyways, but Mexican artist Frida Kahlo actually celebrated not only her ‘stache, but also her unibrow, including putting them in her very famous self portrait seen to your right. It is theorized that this in turn came from the Proto-Indo-European root “*mendh-“, meaning “to chew” (which is also where we get the word “mandible”). We now finally get to the earliest known origin which was from the Hellenistic Greek “mustax”, meaning “upper lip”, which may or may not have come from the Hellenistic Greek “mullon”, meaning “lip”. The French word in turn comes from the Italian word “mostaccio”, from the Medieval Latin “mustacium” and in turn the Medieval Greek “moustakion”. The English word “moustache” comes from the French word of the same spelling, “moustache”, and popped up in English around the 16th century. Moustache is the most common spelling today in the English speaking world, though North Americans usually prefer mustache. Mustachio has relatively recently fallen out of favor for generically describing all moustaches, now more typically referring to particularly elaborate moustaches. Moustache, mustache, and mustachio are all technically correct spellings to describe hair on the upper lip. On the flipside, while previously it was extremely common for Russian soldiers to wear beards, Peter the Great didn’t find beards so great and not only banned them from the military, but also for civilians, with the lone exception being that members of the clergy could wear them. Russian non-officer soldiers were required to wear moustaches under Peter the Great’s reign. This requirement has long since died out excepting the case of sappers in the Foreign Legion, who still are strongly encouraged to maintain a full, robust beard. Infantry Chasseurs were required to wear goatees with their moustache. Grenadiers and other elite level troops had to maintain large busy moustaches. #INSTAGRAM SYMBOLS WITH MUSTACHES FULL#
Sappers were required to have full beards. As alluded to, during the Napoleonic era, French soldiers were required to wear facial hair of various sorts.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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