Mr. Moustache

If it’s true that this city is a leader in fashion, dads and aging male porn stars will be happy to hear that “moustaches are enjoying something of a renaissance among young New Yorkers,” at least according to an Agence France Presse article published today.

This is one of those stories that defines or perhaps forms a trend via a time-honored cart-before-the-ass journalistic formula, which I will reveal to you here.

1. Interview three people who exhibit the trend, in this case including “a tall man with blonde highlights in his hair to match his silver jacket” who confides that moustaches are “cool, right?”
2. Quote a fellow media source backing up the trend. James Bassil of AskMen.com offers the fascinating generalization that women either love moustaches or are “absolutely repulsed” by them.
3. Patch together a trend timeline. This article’s author forms a history of the moustache in American pop culture, from Clark Gable, to the Brawny Man, through actors Tom Selleck to Nicholas Cage (a “hip role model”?), and brings it home with a reference to the New York City Beard and Moustache Championships last month, where the ’stache was “taken for granted.”

There you have it: a trend is grown as easily as facial hair. Impressionable young gentlemen throughout the five boroughs should spend an appropriate amount of time primping and contemplating their new cookie dusters in the mirror, first taking care to adjust their trucker caps so as so provide the clearest view.