A soul patch, also known as a mouche,[1] is a single small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin.
Soul patches have been fashionable in Europe at various times in the past, for instance in 17th-century Holland (though the term "soul patch" itself is more recent). An example can be seen in the Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat by Frans Hals.
Soul patches came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, as a style of facial hair common among African-American men, most notably jazz musicians. Frank Zappa is a well-known artist who sported one from the early sixties on. It became popular with beatniks, artists, and those who frequented the jazz scene and moved in literary and artistic circles. Jazz flutists players who disliked the feel of the flute mouthpiece on a freshly shaven lower lip could use a soul patch.[citation needed] On the other hand, jazz trumpeters preferred the goatee for the comfort it provided when using a trumpet mouthpiece.[2]
The soul patch saw reinvigorated recognition in the early 1990s when Luke Perry's Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Oliver Pike wore a soul patch. Some prominent athletes adopted soul patches, such as Mike Piazza and Apolo Ohno.[3] The facial hairstyle also rose to prominence in the mall goth and nu-metal scenes around the late 1990s to early 2000s.
In Sri Lanka, it is known as Kandy Patch / Kandy Shadow / Kandy Point.
^"mouche, n." OED Online June 2003. Oxford University Press. Retrieved October 11, 2010: "a small patch of beard shaped and allowed to grow under the lower lip".
^Maggin, Donald L.: Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie. HarperCollins, 2005
^"The meaning of the soul patch: a brief history". Trivia Happy. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
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