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In fact, Lemmy’s mutton chops is probably the most famous contemporary example. Indeed, the late Lemmy Kilmister, the frontman of heavy metal pioneers, Motörhead, sported a fetching pair of friendly mutton chops to hide his facial warts. Friendly Mutton Chops recollect old portraits of 19th Century statesmen and royalty such as Tsar Alexander II of Russia. However, like regular Mutton Chops, they feature thick growth down the jawline. Unlike regular Mutton Chops from the Sideburn family, they are termed as “friendly” as they meet through a moustache. The most common variety of the Imperial beard family is the Friendly Mutton Chops. Instead, the imperial beard is variety of mutton chop. The Imperial moustache is an English style moustache that’s small and bushy with the tips curled upwards. Note that according to the World Beard and Moustache Championships, the Imperial beard and Imperial moustache families are separate. Therefore, they are beards that can seem somewhat nostalgic and regal, which may complement or contrast a modern gentleman’s style. In the final quarter of the 19th Century, Austrian emperor, Franz Josef, was one of the discerning statesmen who would sport Side Whiskers. However, he became immortalised for his glorious mutton chops beard, which in 1866 were coined “Burnside Whiskers” by the press.īurnside catalysed a new tonsorial fashion craze. Inefficient leadership at the Battle of Antietam and crushing defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg checkered his military service.

As previously mentioned, American Civil War General Ambrose Burnside is something of a forefather to the beard family. Alternatively, they can also be a wide moustache that features more hair on the cheeks than above the lip.Īs the name suggests, Imperial beards are strongly reminiscent of 19th Century military and political leaders. In short, anything that doesn’t feature a chin hair can be regarded as one. For streamlined classification, facial hair that starts with Sideburns and join as a moustache have been grouped together as Imperial beards.