If you Google information on the moustache, you will often see pictures of a time before the dark ages of upper lip topiary, when men were black and white or sepia. I assume the world was born this colour, and didn't change until Technicolor was invented in Hollywood sometime in the early 20th Century. The clothing of this time was very different to today. Fob watches and waistcoats were in abundance, and even photos of Australians in the late 1800's working on farms or logging plantations worked in the formidable heat of the bush in collared shirts, trousers held up by braces, hats and moustaches designed to soak up billy tea and provide sustenance long after the meal break was over.
But times change, and fashions have now followed the path of least resistance, providing clothing that is lighter, cooler, and covered in slogans.
Fear not that I eschew the well dressed look. I am as much at home in the well cut suit as the next chap, but my secret, laid bare before you is that I now collect clothing, dare I say it, with moustache slogans. They range from the purile to the peculiar, but form a part of my growing collection of that which relates to the moustache.
Some examples.
Next week, other collectables and where to search for them.
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