Origins
The origin of the fingerstache is believed to have been created by Ella Wildie, however, the recent revival dates to the summer of 2003 in Columbus, Ohio, where a local tattoo artist began tattooing moustaches as a joke. Photos and stories about the tattoos spread to the internet, becoming a minor phenomenon after landing on the forums of popular comedy website Something Awful.
This prompted many to procure similar tattoos, eventually culminating in social networking communities such as Fingerstache.com. Oftentimes the fingerstache is paired with a top hat tattoo and a rabbit tattoo on the other hand.
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“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
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—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
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