Mustaches are usually considered the domain of hipsterdom. I would beg to differ, although these mustachioed American Apparel models aren’t doing anything to help my case. I say mustaches are about as hipster as jeans and t-shirts are. And everybody wears jeans and t-shirts. Hipsters just prefer theirs to be tight-fitting.

It’s interesting to note there is no variety in mustache styles. I was expecting to see some handlebars and push-brooms akin to their CEO Dov, but instead all I see are some borderline pencil-thin, I’m-just-now-able-to-grow-a-mustache mustaches.

By any chance, if you dig the clothes they are, from left to right:

• http://store.americanapparel.net/rsaws457.html
• http://store.americanapparel.net/rsa642ym.html
• http://store.americanapparel.net/2001st.html
• http://store.americanapparel.net/2007org.html

My brother’s girlfriend saw this book at the store the other day and of course she had to send it to me. It’s a celebration of ‘staches with “50 Badass Mustaches and the Faces Who Sport Them.” That’s right, you need a face to support a mustache. They don’t exist on their own. No doubt your face will be more memorable if you grow a ‘stache; everyone seems to remember who these folks are. See the whole list after the jump.

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I saw this brilliantly funny ID-checking propaganda stuck to the check-out counter of 7-Eleven. I mean, this red-headed goober’s not fooling anybody with his fake ‘stache! I tried all sorts of ways of buying beer when I was a teenager but I was never innovative enough to try a fake mustache. Too bad it doesn’t work, even when you are old enough: at the age of 27, even with a full-grown real ‘stache, I still get carded at stores.

Here’s the full text:

While your sweet ‘stache may say 30, we’ll need to see what your ID says.

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