The Mail tracks what is was.
One young Tory MP said that "Eden had to prove he had a real moustache" - a metaphor for proving his courage. The Prime Minister's wife, Clarissa, did her best to help.
Moments before her husband's broadcast on November 3, 1956, the eve of the invasion of Suez, she saw on a television monitor that his moustache was almost invisible and quickly blackened it with her mascara. By then, the moustache was vanishing as fast as the Empire.
True, it had ceased to be compulsory in the Army as early as 1916, when King's Regulations had permitted shaving the upper lip.
Reclaiming the toothbrush mustache? Madness.
But Richard Cohen has got it going with just the same. 'You got to have a gimick' to play in the Vanity Fair.
Separately, non metrosexual, mais ubersexual!
Le Retour de la Moustache:
/f The Fine Art of the Mustache
