{"id":733,"date":"2008-07-17T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/celebrating-the-lip-muff-renaiissance\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T23:54:45","slug":"celebrating-the-lip-muff-renaiissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/17\/celebrating-the-lip-muff-renaiissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoicing The Lip Muff Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the NY Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Below Nose, It Grows!<\/h1>\n

BY<\/span>\u00a0GILLIAN REAGAN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question that the mustache is having a moment. Walk through downtown (on the East Side, please!) or stroll along any Brooklyn thoroughfare, and at least a half dozen 20-to-early-30-something guys will saunter by sporting some kind of lip awning. Whether big, thick, bushy beasts or filmy, sparse little squiggles, mustaches are rising once more from the stubble.<\/p>\n

And who is that mustached man? He appears to be a pretty ballsy breed, having bypassed the beard, that bush of whiskers grown by professors, hippies, urban wannabe lumberjacks and lazy guys who read too much Nietzsche. He\u2019s not afraid to bust in on the territory of blue-collar cops and workers, villains (think Hitler), old-timey bank robbers and creepy dudes to claim his very own parcel of hair-land. And he\u2019s willing to express himself, whether with a pencil-thin growth above the lip \u00e0 la John Waters, or a broom-bottom Mr. Monopoly number that looks like a disguise.<\/p>\n

Socratis Mamalis Jr. wears what he calls a \u201cmolester \u2019stache,\u201d a sparse, slightly pubescent mustache that lends him a striking resemblance to JD Samson, the guitarist from feminist dance-punk band Le Tigre, who cultivates a patch of pitch-black peach fuzz above her lip.Mr. Mamalis, 24, who goes by \u201cSoci\u201d or \u201cCrates,\u201d explained during a recent indie rock show at South Street Seaport that he started growing his mustache about a month ago from \u201cboredom slash the fact that I look like I\u2019m 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, I grew it so I could ask, who wants a mustache ride?\u201d he said with a wicked grin. He works in sales for a printing company. \u201cI\u2019ve noticed the ladies love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nose Broom Now, and Then<\/h2>\n

There is something about the mustache. It adds mystery; having one says, I\u2019m masculine! Or, I\u2019m a rebel! A few years ago, the mustache was largely referred to as ironic, as in \u201cironic mustache,\u201d since (besides baseball players, of course) it showed up mostly on sleazeball celebs like photographer Terry Richardson and American Apparel\u2019s notorious founder, Dov Charney, both of whom seemed eager to look as repulsive as possible. But recently, the novelty of the ironic lip sweater has faded. The mustache has perhaps become a more stately, classic \u2026 even admirable facial fashion. Like high-waisted short shorts, or a muscle shirt, it takes guts to wear one.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the NY Observer Below Nose, It Grows! BY\u00a0GILLIAN REAGAN There\u2019s no question that the mustache is having a moment. Walk through downtown (on the East Side, please!) or stroll along any Brooklyn thoroughfare, and at least a half dozen 20-to-early-30-something guys will saunter by sporting some kind of lip awning. Whether big, thick, bushy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}