Oh where, oh where, are the handlebar mustaches?
You’d think they’d be easy to spot at a gathering of barbershop singers, but it turns out long, twirly ’staches are as rare as a barbershopper’s straw hat.
At the 73rd annual Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention, in town through this weekend, a ballroom at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown has been turned into a store for the conventioneers, but there’s nary a straw hat (they’re called skimmers) in the place.
Stop a singer or two — 5,600 are here for the all-male “a cappella extravaganza” — to ask about fancy mustaches or some such and you’ll quickly be set straight about modern barbershopping.
“We don’t hang out under streetlamps, either,” says Don Fuson of Leawood, a member of the local Heart of America Chorus.
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