This photo challenge was exactly what I needed to convince my girlfriend to let me regrow my mustache. Of course, a one-week mustache is one weak mustache; as any aficionado knows, a true and proper manly mustache requires a lifetime of devotion. One of my favorite blogs devoted to historical mustachery is the ever-interesting "Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century" (http://mustachesofthenineteenthcentury.blogspot.com/)