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Moustaches^*

Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

^* War Office permission has been given for the publication of this paper.

ABSTRACT

1. Five hundred and seventy-three moustached candidates at two officer selection Boards were studied.
   
2. The moustaches were placed in five groups: "trimmed", "divided", "clipped", "line" and "bushy".
   
3. Men with "trimmed" moustaches showed no significant differences from the cleans shaven.
   
4. The "clipped" moustache group was found associated with a distinctive type of personality. No man with this moustache had "passed" the Boards.
   
5. The personality features within the "clipped" group did appear to have been reflected in the cut of this moustache.
   
6. Men bearing "line" moustaches "passed" at half the rate for the whole intake; those who "failed" displayed "health consciousness" far more than "fails" of any other group.
   
7. The "bushy" moustached men "passed" at rate similar to the whole intake; those who "failed" tended to self-indulgence and self-display.