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Historical whiskers: Van Dykes and goatees

If you lived through the 90s and were old enough to grow facial hair, chances are, you wore a wrap-around mustache/beard combination and you probably called it a goatee. You might be shocked to know that in the modern era, this facial hair style, mistakenly called a goatee, is actually a 400 year old Flemish (Dutch) style called a Van Dyke.

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Added by Leah Morrigan on March 29, 2012 at 8:40am — 1 Comment

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