The Pencil is a thin, finely groomed moustache just above the upper lip, popular with movie stars of the Golden Age such as David Niven, Clark Gable and Errol Flynn. There’s the once-popular ...

Other styles you may deign to try are the pencil – once the preserve of Clark Gable and Errol Flynn, or the Aldo Raine – thus named for moustache advocate Brad Pitt’s moustache in Inglorious Basterds.

And what a moustache it is. Taking centre stage amidst a sprinkling of stubble, this handsome example of facial hair is lusciously thick, not too styled and, above all, doesn’t look too gimmicky or ...