WI: JFK Had A Moustache?

Correct: Taft was the last with a mustache. The last one with a beard was Benjamin Harrison.

The last candidate not clean-shaven was Dewey in 1948. And the last one with a beard was Hughes in 1916.
 
A question to consider

Which presidents would have looked better with facial hair?

Eisenhower-? (just more hair in general)

Nixon-moustache and gauote

Truman- moustache and beard

obama-Deweyish moustache

Ford-light moustache and beard
 

Archibald

Banned
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

Laughed loud ! Excellently done sir ! Love the Lincoln-bearded one !
 
attachment.php

Well, if this thread has provided nothing else, we now have President Kennedy as would be represented according to the 1960 fashion trends of an infamous "Successful Sealion" TL.
 
Well, if this thread has provided nothing else, we now have President Kennedy as would be represented according to the 1960 fashion trends of an infamous "Successful Sealion" TL.

Haha good call.

Maybe Gore would've still grown his beard even if he won. It doesn't look too shabby.

al.gore-beard.jpg
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
I just gotta say that the Kennedy's look godawful with facial hair. Joe Jr. looks flat-out creepy and RFK with that stubble looks like a freaking drunk.

I have a feeling JFK with a moustache would look like a porn star.

 
Though no pictures exist to my knowledge, Jack did write in a letter home in '43 that on duty he had grown a red beard, of all things, due to lack of razors presumably. So yeah, porn star is right.
 

Hendryk

Banned
Facial hair went out of fashion after WW1 and, for the most part, it hasn't come back, at least in the US. The overwhelming majority of adult American males are clean-shaven to this day (especially if you define adulthood as "over 30"). The thing about politicians in democracies is that they seek popular approval, and that means cultivating a mainstream look; so, Kennedy, trying to be elected by a nation of clean-shaven males and their wives, was clean-shaven. A moustache would have made no political sense.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
Though no pictures exist to my knowledge, Jack did write in a letter home in '43 that on duty he had grown a red beard, of all things, due to lack of razors presumably. So yeah, porn star is right.
That's not that uncommon. I've got brown hair and there's a lot of red and blond hair in my beard, especially if I let it grow too much.
 
Top