Paterson's 'Stache Prompted By His Son

Yesterday, Governor Paterson joked that his new beard-less look was due to more state budget cutbacks. But it turns out his 15-year-old son asked him to get rid of the beard. The Daily News went to AskMen.com's editor in chief James Bassil for his analysis: "Bassil said mustaches made something of a comeback among urban 'hipsters' this spring, but the trend never went mainstream and is already starting to die out. 'If you see an older guy wearing a mustache, it's usually either out of force of habit - they've had it forever - or it's a midlife crisis,' Bassil said."

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By Jen Chung in News on September 1, 2009 1:33 PM

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NannyState

Sporting a dirty sanchez is very appropriate for Albany.

Kevin Walsh

No New York State governor with a beard has been elected since Charles Evans Hughes in 1906

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes

www.forgotten-ny.com

ANGRYGOD11

NJ Governor Corzine is the only elected governor with a beard currently in office. It's just not in fashion for politicians to have beards anymore.

nomnomnom

Or that he doesn't know any better because he can't see his stache?

wow 14th street

Or maybe some men at any age just like

having a mustache?

Amazing a grown up male can say it's a fashion

statement that never caught on.

Since when the 1st century?