A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy and upwardly curved extremities. These moustache styles are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a bicycle. It is also known as a spaghetti moustache, because of its stereotypical association with Italian men. The Handlebar Club humorously describes the style as "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities".
Copenhagen wigmaker about 1893
William Howard Taft
Wilhelm II
Joseph Stalin
A moustache is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history.
A moustachioed horseman on a c. 300 BC artwork found in Pazyryk burials
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia
Count Gaishi Nagaoka, Japanese officer and Vice Chief of the General Staff in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War.
Stone sculpture of a Gaul wearing a torc, with curled moustache and eyebrows, c. 400 AD