Puzzlement melts into gratitude as the quartet begins to sing, delivering a barbershop message of love ... tunes and swaying choreography, a hat tip to old-time striped pole troubadours.

Forget about old-fashioned sleeve garters, derby hats ... changed in barbershop entertainment since 1938, the year the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing ...

“Barbershop quartets often are characterized as four dandies, perhaps bedecked with straw hats, striped vests and handlebar mustaches,” the site reads. “These caricatures of the barbershop ...

Make way for a new barbershop style. Candy-striped vests and straw hats have all but disappeared ... The barbershop quartet isn’t even limited to four anymore — as is the case with The ...

Sunday's presser was particularly delightful, because he looked like he was in a barbershop quartet. A barbershop quarteterback, if will (sorry). The internet had some fun with it, as the internet ...

How did the oversized mustaches, striped jackets and straw hats become synonymous with the genre? It started with Vaudeville. Barbershop quartets were often used in front of the curtain to ...

When most people think of a barbershop quartet, they envision four men in red-and-white-striped suits, sporting straw hats and waxed mustaches, and singing “Sweet Adeline” in four-part harmony.

Fifth Element is touring America on their way to the 2025 International Barbershop Convention and will perform at a free ...

Indeed, a quartet from Northwest called Highkey ... The stereotypes of barbershop singing, including straw hats and handlebar moustaches, is something the international society is trying to ...