Jordan's Hanes Hitler 'stache raising a furor

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That new Michael Jordan campaign for Hanes, which we wrote about last week, really does have people buzzing, though it's not Jordan's "lie-flat collar" that they're fixated on. Viewers instead seem to be stupefied by his attempt to bring back the "Hitler mustache," which has pretty soundly been out of fashion since, you know, Hitler. Technically called a "toothbrush mustache," this facial styling was actually quite popular in the 1920s, and still makes the occasional appearance on the faces of foul-tempered tyrants like Robert Mugabe and J.

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