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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20167, 8 June 1928, Page 9

It would be really interesting io understand the psychology of the toothbrush moustache vogue. Does it mark a first tentative move by our more adventurous juniors towards three-decker whiskers? Are we to have a return to Crimean fashions, when our heroes were bearded like Shakespeare’s Pard? Or is it merely a subtle attempt by those youngsters, who were sucking rationed candies during the Great War, to suggest an ex-Army habit? Some “temporary gentlemen,” of course, never demobbed their junior moustaches, and may-be the rising male generation is just imitating those stout fellows. They have listened admiringly to father’s war talk, and decided to grow a toothbrush at least. This ornament, by the way, is christened by the contemporary flapper “a sex appeal.” It will be funny if, now all the ladies wear short hair we go in for whiskers. —From the “Chronicle’s” London correspondent.