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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
It is probably a good sign for the mustache in America that the biennial World Beard and Moustache Championships, after being held in the Northern European towns of Hofen/Enz, Pforzheim, Trondheim, and Schomberg, came this past November to Carson City, Nevada. Since the early seventies, the mustache, despite some memorable specimens (Rollie Fingers, Tom Selleck, Ned Flanders) and die-hard constituencies (cops, professional bowlers, Playgirl pinups), has failed to match the mainstream popularity of its questionable cousin the goatee. It's hard, certainly, to imagine an American President sporting a soup-strainer like Vaclav Havel's.
Still, there have been glimmers...
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