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IF you’ve spent any time at all around young people, you know that whiskers are back in fashion. Young men are growing them in all sorts of tufts and outshoots-from wispy, devilish strands around the upper lip and chin to fully inflated muttonchops. Walk into a fashionable bar or club these days and it’s hard to know whether the guys are there to pick up girls or stage a Civil War reenactment.

One of the more popular ways to display your whiskers, apparently, is something called a “soul patch,” which is a smallish rectangular thatch of facial hair grown right below the lower lip. It covers that small section between the lip and the beginning of the chin, and it’s kept tightly clipped, about an inch all around.

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Rob Long

Rob Long is a writer and producer and a co-founder of Ricochet.

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IF you’ve spent any time at all around young people, you know that whiskers are back in fashion. Young men are growing them in all sorts of tufts and outshoots-from wispy, devilish strands around the upper lip and chin to fully inflated muttonchops. Walk into a fashionable bar or club these days and it’s hard to know whether the guys are there to pick up girls or stage a Civil War reenactment.

One of the more popular ways to display your whiskers, apparently, is something called a “soul patch,” which is a smallish rectangular thatch of facial hair grown right below the lower lip. It covers that small section between the lip and the beginning of the chin, and it’s kept tightly clipped, about an inch all around.