7/3/2023 0 Comments 70s stache![]() I’m like, we were both on That ’70s Show, I think we got this. Men wanted to maintain their masculinity in the unisexy world, and a thick, hearty mustache was a sure sign of success. He goes on to explain that he found out the theme of the birthday party was 1970s New Year’s just hours before it started. ![]() Hair got shorter, but still mop-topped with a wide side part and a heavy wave over the forehead, or brushed back into a pompadour. Hippie boys in the 60’s went natural, growing out their hair and their beards, but the 70’s trimmed back the scraggly look. While close to being a full beard, the mustache and sideburns maintained their own identity. Sideburns were dubbed ‘mutton chops’ for the meat portion style of hair that grew down onto the face. The mustache was virile, and at a time when women were adopting unisex fashions and competing with men in the corporate world, the look of mustache and sideburns was one thing that women couldn’t take over. The term, Brownless explains, is a slang term for that thick, blocky mustache silhouette that doesn’t drop down past the sides of the mouth popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s. ![]() The mustache had not been a mass fashion since the turn of the century, but the sexual revolution returned it to the mainstream. Including, obviously, Top Gun: Maverick, which may have single-handedly made the ‘pornstache’ cool. Boys have always scrutinized their chins and upper lips for any sign of activity, trying to cultivate a few curly wisps into the full manly mustache, but at no time like the 70’s were the feeble attempts cheered on so vehemently. There was something about puberty and the arrival of facial hair that turned boys into preening peacocks during the 70’s. ![]()
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