the 70s pornstache

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With a shuddering inevitability, Nigel Farage debuted his new career move. As
a 70s throwback. Appearing on Russia Today he unveiled a porntache, a two headed
droopy caterpillar of a moustache that wasn’t just a metaphor for his points of
view but, more shockingly, pretty fashionable.

In 2016, 1970s styles are inescapable. Track suits, gazelle trainers, bold
prints, silk shirts and sherpa jackets have all dominated both on the high
street and on screen (The Get Down, The Nice Guys and Everybody Wants Some!!).
While Jake Gyllenhaal, James Franco, Adrien Brody and the British cycling team
have all sported the era’s facial-hair style.

Stylistically, the pornstache came out of a Playboy aesthetic which combined
the age of the peacock with a sense of man-of-the-worldliness. Burt Reynolds,
the star of Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit, was one of the
highest-paid actors of the decade and it was part of his trademark look. For
Cosmopolitan, Reynolds got semi-naked, sprawled out on a bearskin rug, chomping
on a cigarillo, his caterpillar ’tache peeping out above his cheshire cat’s
grin. The moustache wasn’t pencil-thin cartoon-villain (think John Waters’
Little Richard tribute) but unapologetically bulky and robust.

It was iconic at the time, but also a symbol of the old-school masculinity
that was on its way out. Post the free-love movement, the ’tache symbolised an
ancient take on gender relations and would be later attached to unreconstructed
characters who are trapped in their out of touch realities (Mario, Ned Flanders,
Ron Burgundy and Borat). With his moustache, Farage may have aligned himself
with the latter group but also found himself to be accidentally on trend.

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