Mustaches…According to Harold and Zooey

From Chad Osko’s blog, Harold and Zooey, he provides and interesting perspective into an aggressively growing hipster phenomenon. The Mustache.

The amount that mustaches have integrated themselves into popular culture is astonishing. First, a while back, it became a sort of indie, hip thing to do — grow a mustache and be ironic. At the very least, talk about growing one (I mean, talking is good enough for this laissez fair culture that somehow manages to catapult most of today’s trends) . Then, all these creative, hip, indie kids fell so in love with mustaches that they started showing up on their t-shirts and designs and all that good stuff.

Now, it’s impossible not to notice the plethora of mustache obsessed people in every day life — pay attention, seriously. You’ll see, the facial hair culture has successfully (some would argue catastrophically) segued into mainstream. Every quasi outgoing Tom, Dick and Harry (no pun intended) has jumped on the bandwagon — all of which think they’re creative and original and awesome. None of them are. We’re going to focus on the first group though, those who so passionately love mustaches that they’ve used the look as a creative springboard to awesome design.