Handlebar moustache

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A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy, often graspable, extremities. They are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a motorcycle or bicycle. This effect is usually achieved by the use of moustache wax.

Handlebar moustaches have always been closely associated with the British armed forces, particularly with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War.

Men known for their Handlebar Moustaches

• Salvador Dalí, surrealist painter
• Cap Anson, baseball player
• Michael "Atters" Attree, British satirist
• Johnnie Cradock, British cook and broadcaster
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author
• Jimmy Edwards, British comedy actor
• Sir Edward Elgar, British composer
• Sam Elliott, American actor
• Rollie Fingers, baseball player
• Vince Guaraldi, American jazz composer
• Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
• Bill King, American sports broadcaster
• Lord Kitchener
• Gary McCord, television golf announcer
• Sir Gerald Nabarro, British politician
• Gene Shalit, film critic for NBC
• Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator
• William Howard Taft, U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States
• Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
• King George V of the United Kingdom
• Frederick William Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family
• Veerappan, Indian bandit
• Diego Velázquez, Spanish Baroque Period painter
• Dennis Gage, host of the SPEED Channel television series My Classic Car
• Freddie Mercury, member of rock band Queen
• Alfredo Palacios, Argentine socialist politician

See also

• Moustache, Beard, Goatee

External link

• Handlebar Moustache Club