WI: JFK Had A Moustache?

I re-call reading a story once that said fewer men wore hats these days because JFK didn't wear one to his inauguration. Now, that story is false, but it got me wondering, what if JFK had a moustache? Would moustaches be more popular amoung politicians, or facial hair in general?

Lincoln was after all the first President to have a beard, and after him you saw many more Presidents fallow suit until Taft, who was the last President to sport facial hair. So would JFK be able to bring facial hair back into politics?
 
All the Kennedys were/are clean-shaven for a reason. To take Bobby as an example, he looks quite badly even in pix where he just has a few days of beard growth.
 
Some beards just don't look good, like mine-- but I'm just sick of shaving, so screw it. Actually, I'm starting to look more and more Amish....


If JFK had a 'stash, would others have one too. It might become the thing to do in Washington (the city of course), and maybe other spots along the East Coast, but I'm not sure if it would hit the whole country. On the other hand, the leopard population crashed when Jackie was caught wearing a leopard skin coat, or so the story goes. :mad:
 
Your Majesty: You're not supposed to catch me off guard like that. :mad: I demand pix. ;)

Do you mean this?

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I am referring to this.

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You wouldn't need JFK to grow a mustache in order to bring facial hair back to the realm of politics. All you have to do is elect Thomas Dewey in 1948. :p;)
 
Presidents don't set fashion. Of course JFK could have chosen to wear a moustache, but I suspect that would be seen as a deliberate reference to the 40s. Given he fought a pretty damned close election, to a large extent on his image of youth, vigour and freshness, that might actually be enough to make him wear it to Nixon's inauguration.
 
I go a step further
and try to Imagine JFK in debate with Fidel Castro, both with full beard...

for Moustache i have try Photoshop some examples.
from upper Left to right down

JFK normal look
With Theodore Roosevelt moustache
ala Howard Hughes moustache JFK look like a womanizer
a Jamie Hyneman style moustache, FJK look more like Friedrich Nietzsche
with Abraham Lincoln style he looks more Gendō Ikari (Cuba crisis goes Nuclear )
and last with a Fidel Castro beard

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I doubt that one would fly in the 1960 election looks too Groucho Marx-ist for starters. Never mind the obvious connotations either.
 
The resemblance is uncanny. No really. That moustache really makes him look like Hitler. I swear their faces are near identical. All he needs to change is his hair...

Pretty much everyone looks like Hitler with a toothbrush moustache.
 
Moustaches were long out of style in public life. Dewey wasn't always mustachioed- he grew it on a bike trip to France in the 30s and kept it afterwards. The Kennedys were always clean-shaven.
 
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