Ravenwood - 04/22/03 07:15 AM
I'm a bit sick and tired of people not knowing the difference between a 'goatee' and a 'Van Dyke', so I'll illustrate.
Goatee - \Goat`ee"\, n. A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
A 'Van Dyke' is a variation of a goatee with a mustache, named after the 17th century Flemish painter, Sir Anthony Van Dyck (also spelled Van Dyke). (src)
 Shaggy has a goatee |  The Count has a goatee |  Uncle Sam has a goatee |
 Colonel Sanders has a Van Dyke |  Green Arrow has a Van Dyke |  Satan has a Van Dyke |
(some photos courtesy of Goateestyle.com)
Ummm... What?
Posted by: Owen Courrèges at April 22, 2003 12:15 PMI am not allowed to wear a beard at work, so I have a moustache and a "gunslinger goatee." That's the narrow triangle than you grow under your bottom lip, kinda like the Doc Holiday character Val Kilmer played in "Tombstone."
I LOVED that line, "I'll be your huckleberry" just before he shot Johnny Ringo right between the eyes.
The REAL Doc Holiday was from Jawja. But you probably knew that.
Posted by: Acidman at April 22, 2003 12:21 PMThat's called a "soul patch". Jackie Chan sports one in "The Tuxedo" (and talks about it briefly).
Posted by: Tony at December 8, 2003 12:40 PMThere's not much information on the internet about how to trim beards. I would like to see some sort of illustrated manual, but there is none. Someone should work on this. Until such a manual appears I guess I will have to keep on looking like a libertarian.
Signed,
Too Shaggy
I thought I was the only person left on earth that knew the difference between a van dyke and a goatee. Glad to know Im not alone.
Posted by: bandon at April 11, 2004 1:50 PMOkay, all the pictures you've got demonstrating the Van Dyke show the moustache as distinctly separate from the beard. What's the term for the style where the moustache and beard are connected?
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