Soul patches, explained

Here's who to blame.


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The soul patch, a tiny strip of facial hair located just below the bottom lip, has seen its fair share of significant cultural moments from it inception during the jazz era. The soul patch's story is, at heart, one of a great cultural shift in the 20th century. It's a tale that shows how facial hair can change. What hipsters love in one decade can become, startlingly quickly, uncool in another.

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