Handlebar moustache

Not to be confused with Horseshoe moustache.
Copenhagen wigmaker about 1893

A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy and upwardly curved extremities. These moustache styles are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a bicycle.[1] It is also known as a spaghetti moustache, because of its stereotypical association with Italian men.[2][3] The Handlebar Club humorously describes the style as "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities".[4]

  1. ^ Dictionary.com Unabridged. "handlebar moustache". Random House, Inc. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
  2. ^ Gauri Shah. "'Moonch'as Gracias: Salman's Dabangglook has brought the good 'ole moustache in the spotlight". Times of India. Archived from the original on November 27, 2018. Retrieved 2012-08-15. The handle-bar a.k.a 'spaghetti moustache' grew in popularity thanks to Italian men.
  3. ^ Clements, Caroline (29 October 2010). "Broadsheet's Guide to Movember". Broadsheet. Retrieved 2012-08-15. Handlebar or Spaghetti Moustache: Curling upwards at the sides like an Italian lion tamer
  4. ^ "London's Handlebar Club campaigns against sacking of Indian airline steward". The Economic Times. 16 Feb 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-27.