I was doing some fact-finding about george orwell’s early life for a class project, and his facial hair while he was a cop is…um…well, I’m going to choose to interpret it as performance art about the nature of the police as an force of state oppression, but…I really can’t use this picture in my project. For obvious reasons.
That was from 1922. People back then used this moustache a lot. Here (Brazil) it was known as “bigode de brocha” (paintbrush* moustache), until… well, you know.
*more specifically, a “brocha” is a paintbrush like this, used for large surfaces:
Not to be confused with “pincel” (small paintbrush for details). Or “broxa” (someone with ED), even if both sound the same… sorry, couldn’t resist.