Foreign Policy has a slideshow of dictator mustaches. Of the “toothbrush” whiskers associated with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, they write:
When it first appeared on men’s faces in the late 19th century, the mustache that Adolf Hitler made infamous was known as the “toothbrush.” Not so much today. The Hitler mustache, Rich Cohen wrote in Vanity Fair in 2007, “did not only die with the Führer — it was embalmed with him. It was his essence, and so it has been relegated to the black book of history.”
They were wrong:
If you would have asked me two years ago who was gonna bring this one back, “Michael Jordan” would not have been my answer.
