Hey Princeton! Mustache edition
Friday night's annual student gala at the Princeton Art Museum, "This is Collage," featured music, students dressed as famous artists, and large platters of Olives cookies.But one of the main draws to the well-attended event: a table kept well stocked with fake mustaches of various shapes. We asked some attendees to tell us the story behind their mustache.
Savannah Hankinson '13 as Salvador Dali
Marjorie Crowell '12 and Ashley Wenke, Rutgers
Evan Warner '12
Briana Ndife '11 and Jack Schoening '11
Well, my mustache. Em, I have many problems with my father, so I grew it out of rebellion, de mi padre, for my father. I think it is very sensual, sexual, como--like my paintings. Yes. And, people cannot resist it, and I think it looks wonderful. It brings out the surrealism that I like to live, through my life and my paintings, and my films as well.
Am I wearing my mustache upside down?Ashley: I don't think so.I just like yours more than mine.Marjorie: Yours is more like Burt Reynolds, I think.That's the vibe I'm getting. So tell me about your mustaches.Ashley: Well, it was a very hard decision, what mustache I was going to pick. Ultimately, I saw Marj going for the little curl flip, and I could not resist.How would you describe your mustache?Ashley: Charlie Chaplin?Marjorie: Yeah. We saw the mustaches, and no one else was wearing them. So we debated for a while whether it'd be weird to be the first ones to put them on. I think there may have been one other person, but he was like, hanging out in the corner. Which is obviously what you want to do when you are the only one wearing a fake mustache.
I first grew this mustache in the Mexican-American war, and I've kept it ever since as a tribute to my fallen comrades.
Briana: I came to the art museum, and I got really excited about the art. And then I saw the art collage table, so I started playing with it. I saw everyone else having a mustache, and then I felt like I wanted to sport a mustache as well, to be like…To really feel the art.Briana: Yeah, definitely. It's been a lot of fun.Do you think it has changed your personality?Briana: I mean, it's too soon to say. But I feel like, yeah, sure.The seed has been planted.Briana: Yeah!You're an artist now.Briana: Yeah, thanks!Jack: I don't really know the story behind my mustache--do you know the story about my mustache?No.Jack: I just put it on.How would you describe it?Jack: I would say it's lush. Makes me look older. It attracts women. I feel artistic.Do you think you're going to keep it around?Jack: I think so.