Moustaches Throughout History - Historic UK
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Is it more than a coincidence that the rise and fall of Empire coincides with the rise and fall in popularity of the moustache? Between 1860 and 1916, Kings Regulations decreed that every soldier in the British Army was forbidden to shave his upper lip...
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Original Title: TIL after the Crimean War, Queen Victoria praised soldiers’ facial hair as the mark of “real fighting men”. Mustaches became mandatory until 1916, mainly because gas masks required a proper seal, prompting the army to drop the almost 60 year old rule and made them optional.