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De avonturen van 'De Izegemse Snor' Dit is een 'blog' van, over en voor alle 'moustachen' in Vlaanderen, Nederland en verre omstreken.
De laatste nieuwtjes staan steeds vanboven. Voor vroegere berichten moet je terugscrollen of het archief induiken. Er is ook een zoekprogramma ter uwer beschikking.
Je kunt er mijn persoonlijke, maar ook evenementen en avonturen van andere 'snorren', al dan niet in clubverband, meebeleven en nalezen.
SNORREND !
10-09-2007
Uitbundige hulde voor Merho en de belleman in stripgemeente Temse
Uitbundige hulde voor Merho in stripgemeente Temse
De sprekers bij 30 jaar Kiekeboe. V.l.n.r. de bellemannen Gerard Vercauteren en Guy Vandendriessche (Izegem), burgemeester Luc De Ryck, Merho, Spirit-voorzitter Raoul De Graeve, Willy Dupon (voorzitter Europese Snorrenclub Antwerpen) en Annick Rooms
Burgemeester Luc De Ryck huldigt Merho en reikt hem de super-luxe-editie uit van Berten Rodenbach van Jef Nys, die ook Temses volledige strippalmares omvat.
Raoul De Graeve reikt het eerste exemplaar van de luxe-editie van Bij Verdiensten uit aan Merho.
De viering van de 30ste verjaardag van Kiekeboe op zaterdag 8 september was een hoogdag voor Merho én voor stripgemeente Temse.
Op de signeersessie in de bib was het een uur lang filevorming: vanuit Nederland en alle windstreken van Vlaanderen waren de fans opgedaagd om één strip te kunnen laten handtekenen.
In aanwezigheid van 150 belangstellenden werd later op de avond de tentoonstelling 30 jaar Kiekeboe/30 jaar autos in Kiekeboe geopend, wat gepaard ging met meerdere initiatieven. Burgemeester Luc De Ryck huldigde Merho, Raoul De Graeve stelde Spirits luxe-editie voor van Bij Verdiensten (met Temse op de cover), belleman Gerard Vercauteren werd aangesteld tot de snor van Temse en de bakkers Chris Dhaen (Steendorp) en Geert Anné (Tielrode) werden bekroond in de snorren-bakkerswedstrijd. In zijn wederwoord dankte Merho voor de warme hulde.
Merho tekent ook de volgende Kerst/Nieuwjaarskaart voor Temse. Zij wordt officieel voorgesteld tijdens de opening van de expo De strip in de platenindustrie op vrijdag 30 november (20 u., Gemeentemuseum), ook een coproductie Spirit - Gemeentebestuur.
De expo in de Dacca Loft (Kasteelstraat 74) is vrij toegankelijk tot zondag 7 oktober: elke zaterdag en zondag van 14 tot 18 u., zondag ook van 10 tot 12 u.
Van een attente en behulpzame fan uit Izegem, kreeg ik de volgende tip : kijk eens op http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=65752&src=cms. Daar krijg je een korte blik van mijn optreden tijdens het WK in Brighton...
07/09 tot 22/12 : Van barbier tot kapper (Borstelmuseum, eerste verdieping 2 zalen + publiekstrekker in inkom)
(onthaal met museummedewerksters Martine en Lieve)
De barbier en de kapper speelden een heel belangrijke rol in de hygiëne en de lichaamsverzorging sinds de oudheid. Ze werden vaak de persoonlijke raadgever van de klant. De Franse koningin had haar redenen om haar privaat-kapper aan te stellen: hij kon bij andere klanten niet roddelen over de interne koninklijke aangelegenheden. Haarstukjes en pruiken maakten dames èn heren mooi en zijn van alle tijden. De 18de eeuw springt er wel uit met extreem hoge kapsels versierd met strikken, pluimen, bloemen, vogeltjes, juwelen,
De bruikleencollectie van dhr. Raymond Verhaeghe, kapper te Roeselare vormt de kern van de tentoonstelling. Zijn verzameling evoceert een herenkapsalon van midden 20ste eeuw.
De tentoonstelling is aangevuld met items uit de privé-verzameling van de 'Izegemse Snor van het Jaar' Guy Vandendriessche, plaatselijke belleman, Doctor in de Snorologie en bestuurslid van de Europese Snorrenclub Antwerpen.
De noodzakelijke benodigdheden zijn aanwezig: van kaptafel en stoel tot scheermessen, -riemen, -stenen, -borstels, -bekkens.
Desinfecteer- en geurtoestellen maakten het bezoek aan de kapper hygiënisch en aangenaam. De bezoeker volgt de evolutie van scheermes tot scheermachine. Dames èn heren gebruikten alle modellen krul- en plattangen.
In het damessalon krijgen de vele haarborstels speciale aandacht. Ze dienden voor verzorging of modellering en ondergingen een hele evolutie in de loop van de tijd. Bij de eerste drogers en permanenttoestellen wanen we ons eerder onder oorlogs- of foltertuigen !
Kapsels, snorren en baarden, op foto en op model, tonen de modetrends bij heren en dames uit de 20ste eeuw. Bekende figuren waren vaak trendzetters. Was het kapsel van de Beatles geen protestkapsel tegen de keurig geknipte koppen van de gevestigde orde? Wie wou het snorretje van Clark Gable niet in de jaren 1930 en 40?
Wie de kapperswereld van haar noch pluimen kent, hoeft niet met zijn handen in het haar te zitten. Zet alles op haren en snaren en kom kijken!
Locatie Nationaal Borstelmuseum, Baron de Pélichystraat 5, 8870 Izegem Tel 051/ 31 64 46 borstelmuseum@izegem.be
Toegang en kostprijs (bezoek aan museum en tentoonstelling) Indiv 2 p.p., van dinsdag tot en met zaterdag van 10 tot 12u en van 14 tot 17u Groep 1,5 p.p. + 25 per groep voor de gids, na afspraak elke dag van de week ook buiten de openingsuren
Extra: open monumentendag 09/09/07: gratis toegankelijk met demonstraties: - voormiddag scheren van heren en gratis finishing voor jongens en heren - namiddag haarkappen voor dames (op pruiken) door de afdelingen haartooi van Technisch Instituut H. Familie, Brugge en Molenland, Tielt
Educatief programma Lager onderwijs: interactieve en praktische rondleiding door de tentoonstelling op maat van de kinderen Middelbaar onderwijs: historisch en technisch e benadering van het beroep van de kapper, speciaal voor richtingen haartooi en verzorging
Er ligt een prachtige brochure ter beschikking voor iedere bezoeker van de hand van Hilde Colpaert (conservator Borstelmuseum) en Bart Blomme (heemkundige kring) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tijdens de openingsreceptie was er een ludiek optreden van de twee vooraanstaande 'snorren' van Stad Izegem, Paul Berlamont en Guy Vandendriessche : Hoe scheer je een kletskop ?
Ik had ook de eer om er de Voorzitter van de Unie van Belgische Kappers, Jef De Bie, te ontmoeten. Hier links op de foto samen met conservator Hilde Colpaert en professor/auteur Jean-Marie Lermyte
Met dank aan Peter Landuyt voor de fotoreportage !
Cafeterias, diners, restaurants and steakhouses across Carson City, Nevada will be closing off their buffets and salad bars on Saturday, November 1st, 2003 as the World Beard and Moustache Championships invade the Silver State's capitol to coincide with it's annual Nevada Day parade.
Founded in 1990 by the First Höfener Beard Club (1. Höfener Bartclub) in their hometown Höfen/Enz, Germany, this year's World Beard and Moustache Championships will mark the first time a competition amongst the elite in facial hair will be held on American soil. Five years lapsed after muted beginnings in the heart of Black Forest before the 1. Höfener Bartclub hosted the second World Beard and Moustache Championships in the nearby city of Pforzheim. Since then the Championships have been held every two years, traveling to Trondheim, Norway in 1997 and Ystad, Sweden in 1999 before returning to Schömberg, Germany in 2001. Berlin has already been granted hosting privileges for the 2005 contest with London's Handlebar Club hosting the 2007 Championships.
Willi Chevalier Hometown: Singmaringen, Germany Team: Swabian Beard Club Category: Partial beard, freestyle 2001 World Champion
In the Carson City Community Center a panel of judges from across the bearding world and beyond will determine which hairpieces take top honors in seventeen separate categories. Top marks in each category will garner a grower the championship trophy as well as the coveted title of World Champion. Special prizes will also be awarded to the youngest contestant, the contestant who traveled the farthest to attend, and the people's favorite. Among the distinguished judges this year will the all-time U.S. Men's Downhill World Cup skiing champion Daron Rahlves and well-liked Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah Agosti who was once voted "One of America's 100 Young Women of Promise" by Good Housekeeping Magazine. Carson City Mayor Ray Masayko will also sit in on the panel along with former Carson City resident Mark Twain. Gambling men are no doubt placing their bets on Twain's vanity in championing Italian Marco Salvetti in the natural moustache category, hoping that his Paisano take on the American writer and humorist is received as flattering and undeniably charming. In the Wild West Moustache category all eyes will be on Bremerton, Washington's Bruce Roe, a skinny sort of Wilford Brimley and top dog at the The Bremerton Whisker Club. Roe is the first and only American ever to win a trophy at the World Beard and Moustache Championships, taking home hardware in both 1999 and 2001.
Marco Salvetti Hometown: Somewhere in Italy Category: Moustache, natural
Despite facial hair's slow growth in the US sporting world, American's are expected to make a strong showing at the 2003 Worlds, representing their home turf with homages to compatriots like Abe Lincoln, Grizzly Adams, Charles Manson and maybe even Lungfish's Daniel Higgs. Entrance into the competition requires a paltry $25 application fee and event staff will be taking new entrees until only a few days before the contest, allowing indigenous beard growers to sign up in record numbers.
All told more than one hundred ausländers are predicted to join the Yanks with locks of coarse face fur expected from contestants representing Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, Italy, Sweden, Norway, the Ukraine, Turkey, Canada, and Mexico. Stateside followers of the Beard world, which functions a lot like the equally fluffy and fanatical world of dog grooming, are hoping for a large turnout of bearded and moustached Americans to compete against the predominantly German former World and European Champions. The Krauts have had such a vice-like grip on the Beard and Moustache circuit since they invented it over a decade ago that even in Carson City the event will be presented in an Oktoberfest-style atmosphere, complete with beer, bratwurst and oompah music by the Al Gruber Band.
Stefan Gölz Hometown: Mannheim, Germany Team: Palatinate Beard Club Category: Partial beard, freestyle
The most notable of the non-German competitors will be Ted Sedman, the current President of London's Handlebar Club. Sedman is of a weighty stature in the UK, where he was once mentioned in the Guinness Book as having Britain's longest moustache, a photo of him stretched to full wingspan, his lippy strands extending beyond his fingertips.
Rheinhard Mitterhofer Hometown: Switzerland Category: Full beard, natural
LAS is officially throwing its hat into the ring in support of Memili Rüþtüoðlu, a rough-hewn looking fellow from Istanbul, Turkey. Rüþtüoðlu will go for top honors in the Freestyle Moustache category and will be a clear favorite to repeat his 2001 First Place showing.
According to Phil Olsen, organizer of the World Beard and Moustache Championships, the contestants will march in front of 40,000 spectators as part of the annual Nevada Day parade on the morning of November 1st before hunkering down at the Community Center at 851 E. Williams Street that afternoon. A spectator pass to the event (and what a spectacle it is sure to be!) is only $10 and the doors open at 2:00 in the afternoon with the elimination rounds beginning an hour later. By 7:00 most of Carson City is sure to be on hand for the final judging as the torchbearers for handsome, hairy men are crowned for another two year reign.
Alois Plettl Hometown: Salzweg, Germany Team: East Bavarian Beard Club Category: Full beard, natural Third place, 2001 World Championships
More information about the different classes, including illustrations and a list of the 1999 champions, can be found here. For 2001 results, check here.SEE ALSO: www.worldbeardchampionships.com
With the biennial World Beard and Moustache Championships coming up this fall in Berlin, I decided to let my facial hair grow unencumbered as the weather grew cooler. As my stubble turned to blonde and then to a reddish-brown (with a few white hairs interspersed), people began to take notice. Friends asked me what in the hell I thought I was doing, my significant other began to cast sideways glances. I easily had the bushiest face amongst the people I knew, but as online photos of beard and moustache connoisseurs made abundantly clear, I was barely even a big fish in a very small pond. No matter how long I let it go, nothing my visage could produce came even close to the monstrosities of hair that show up every two years at the WBMC. Compared to the likes of World Champions such as Germany's Alois Plettl and Switzerland's Rheinhard Mitterhofer, my paltry Grizzly Adams tribute could amount to no more than a joke.
After taking place in the United States for the first time in 2003, this year the World Beard and Moustache Championships returns to its roots in Germany. Germans not only founded the event a decade and a half ago, they've dominated every year since, generally winning upwards of 80 percent of the categories. Perhaps hoping for a bit of competition, the First Höfener Beard Club set about raising global awareness of the sport by reaching out to other potentially hairy countries; in 1997 the event was held in Norway, the first time ever outside of Germany. Two years later Sweden took up the honors, but as usual it was the Germans who dominated and in 2001 the WBMC moved back home.
In 2003 the United States, playing host, hoped to give their traditional wartime enemies a run for their money and fielded their first national team. Although the Germans again won the medal count, earning first place in eight of the 17 categories (for a total of nine gold medals, as Dieter Gugel and Gerhard Mueller, both of Germany, tied for first in the "Natural Goatee" category), the Americans made a strong showing, taking home four gold medals from the Dali Moustache, Handlebar Moustache, Musketeer and Full Beard Natural categories. But newfound success was not limited to the US team; medallists were spread across a host of nations including Italy, Norway, Hong Kong, Switzerland, England, Austria and of course Germany.
| .: David Traver and Gary Hagen of Beard Team USA :.
The US team plans to expand upon their 2003 success in Carson City and will be returning several medalists, including Alaskan wildman David Traver, who took home first place in the Full Beard Natural category and was honored with a third place finish in the overall best-in-show voting. Also returning for the US will be Gary Hagen, who took home the gold in the Handlebar Moustache competition. It will be the Brits, however, who will be feeling the most pressure this time around, with London's world-famous Handlebar Club hosting the 2007 Championships. The English will undoubtedly want to rob the Germans of as much hardware as possible this year so that they may properly defend it on their home turf next time around. Yes, indeed, I smell a classic Anglo-Teutonic battle brewing in the hearts, minds and beards of Europe this year!
David Traver, voorzitter van de Southcentral Alaska Beard & Mustache Club doet zijn baard af !
David Traver, Alaska's regerend 'Mr. FurFace', is de voorzitter van de Southcentral Alaska Beard & Mustache Club, en zijn baard leverde hem op het World Beard & Mustache Championships van 2003 in Carson City-Nevada de eerste prijs op.
Dit jaar deet hij opnieuw mee in het WK voor Baarden en Snorren 2007 in het Engelse Brighton.
Hij heeft echter zijn vrouwtje beloofd na de competitie 'met pensioen' te gaan en zijn weelderige gezichtbeharing af te scheren tot een meer 'huiselijke' stijl !!!!! Tot groot genoegen van zijn Rebecca hield hij woord en ze vergezelde zelfs manlief naar de barbier. Die heeft er dan ook een nieuwe klant bij !
UK triumphs in World Beard and Moustache Championships
Hirsute men from around the world gathered for the bi-annual World Beard and Moustache Championships on Saturday, held for the first time in Britain since its inception in 1990, with the UK taking top honours in three events. Our bearded boys managed first place in the Natural Moustache, Chinese and Musketeer events, while registering second and third places in seven other categories.
Despite the UK's triumphs, it was the Germans who managed to win no less than twenty medals, with success in the Verdi, Garibaldi and, ironically, the English. However, things got a bit hairy with the US entrants, who made a surprisingly strong stand in the championships, taking places in ten categories and winning the coveted Natural Beard event.
Aside from the more formal beards n' 'taches, the competition saw participants grooming their facial hair into all manner of styles, with one beardo shaping his to resemble Tower Bridge (above). There was no word on whether it could open up for oncoming traffic...
After being held in Brighton this year, the 2009 championships take place in Anchorage, Alaska, where a special "Lumberjack Beard" event is to be included. I just made that last bit up, but I think it's a good idea.
A group is planning to boycott the World Beard and Moustache Championships today - because they believe facial fluff should not be cut and styled.
The biennial event at the Brighton Centre will feature dozens of beard and moustache wearers.
A different country hosts the event as decided by The World Beard and Moustache Association (WBMA).
But the Beard Liberation Front (BLF), an informal pressure group battling against the discrimination of beard wearers, claim the championships are more about the cutting and styling of beards rather than the cultivation of facial fluff.
The differing philosophy on hair growth has meant the BLF is a long standing opponent of the Beard and Moustache Championships.
They are also angry that the event is organised by the Handlebar Club, which does not allow members with beards.
BLF organiser Keith Flett, 50, said: "Most of those attending the Brighton Centre spend far more time fiddling, pruning and in other ways fussing about with their facial hair than they would do if they shaved.
"You do need to look after a beard of course but not to the point of obsession. These people, whatever their intention, give the hirsute a bad name.
"It has an unfortunate impact."
Mr Flett explained the organisation wanted to break down social prejudice he says beard wearers suffer - no matter what style of beard a man chooses to wear, from the organic such as that sported by nature-lover David Bellamy, to the classic stubble worn by Clint Eastwood in his Spaghetti Westerns.
Mr Flett said: "There are companies who won't employ people with beards, they think they have something to hide, but many people who have beards simply don't like shaving.
"There is still a bit of discrimination about and we are still waiting for the first BBC news presenter to sport a beard but unfortunately people with beards are regarded as untrustworthy and that has to change."
Renowned Brighton moustache wearer Michael 'Atters' Attree, hit back at the BLF.
Mr Attree, who sits on the organising committee of the World Beard and Moustache Championship and is also a member of the Handlebar Club, said: "This is utter nonsense and poppycock.
"One's personal grooming is of the utmost importance if they want to be a gentleman.
"Quite often beardies ask me for hirsute advice and I look at their beards and advise them to use wash and go but as far as the BLF are concerned I'll tell them they can just go.
"They are saying we are being too dandy but I'm saying there is nothing wrong with grooming. It is them that are giving us a bad name.
"The World Beard and Moustache Championship is an annual event and often it's a beard club that has been the host. It's not all moustaches, we are just showing the beardies how to do it properly."
To be a member of the Handlebar Club you have to have a "hirsute appendage of the upper lip with graspable extremities".
The club was founded in 1947 with its inaugural members including comedians Jimmy Edwards and Frank Muir as well as former RAF officers sporting extravagant moustaches.
Now, to mark the club's 60th anniversary, the bi-annual World Beard And Moustache Championships has come to the UK for the first time.
Panels of judges will be inspecting the best moustaches and beards of more than 225 contestants who will be competing in 17 different classes.
The whole event will be launched at 11.30am with a parade from outside Brighton Town Hall to the Brighton Centre, weather permitting, taking in Prince Albert Street, Ship Street, Duke Street, Middle Street, Boyces Street, West Street and Kings Road.
Event co-ordinator Geoff Pye says: "We have contestants from all over the world, from Alaska, China, the United States and Europe. We think there will be close to 250 on the day. Registration is coming in now at one or two a day.
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"It is not just incredible creations of facial hair, people dress up to be in keeping with their moustache or beard."
As well as celebrating face fuzz the event is raising money for the Rockinghorse Appeal and Tacheback, which raises money for cancer research.
Welcome to the American Mustache Institute's merchandise page. We thank you for visiting and hope you support our cause for protecting the sanctity of mustaches nationwide and across the world. As for the mustache...well, we don't sell those so you're on your own.
Two-time beard world champion Gerhard Knapp from Germany Photograph: Franz Neumayr/EPA
Facial hair aficionados are having a hard time of it, if you believe a complaint this week from the American Moustache Institute that fans of the soup strainer have had to battle negative stereotyping since the "glory years" of the 70s, writes Stephen Abbott.
But now - at least in Britain - a fightback has begun. This Saturday, hundreds of men will take to the streets of Brighton to show they're hairy-faced and proud.
The seaside town is playing host to the annual World Beard and Moustache Championships, which will see up to 300 shaving-averse men from across the globe battle it out for the title.
Last year's campaign raised £165,000, with all proceeds going to Everyman research into testicular and prostate cancers.
The World Beard and Moustache Championships is a biennial event participated by beard and moustache wearers from all over the world. A different country will host the event as decided by The World Beard & Moustache Association (WBMA).
Objectives:
To promote good relationships between members of moustache and beard clubs throughout the world and to foster networks in the interests of friendship, conviviality and fun.
To encourage and celebrate standards of excellence in the growth, design and presentation of facial hair.
To raise the profile of beard and moustache clubs in order to attract new members and to bring to the general public a topic of interest and fun (put a smile on peoples faces).
To cover the costs of hosting the championships and to raise money for selected charity organizations, such as The Rockinghorse Appeal and TacheBack.
Go Beard Team USA! Unfortunately local favorite Steven Raspa is at Burning Man and will not be able to compete this year, however my friend and fellow photographer Eric H. Brown from Jersey City, NJ is on Beard Team USA and he is a strong contender for this years sideburns world champion.
Wow! It was like Pride for the facially furry of the world. A biennial event for beard and moustache wearers all over the planet. I'm pretty sure this was its first time in the UK, and by 'eck it was hirsute heaven.
From mid-morning onwards, Bartholomew Square outside Brighton Town Hall was awash with men with extraordinary facial hair, and their admirers. Yeah ok, and lots of slack-jawed tourists and locals who couldnt believe their eyes.
As well as general hanging about admiring each other, there was a Morris dancing demonstration, which the championships entrants were then encouraged to join in with. All this before the parade even began.
Im guessing about 150 chaps walked through the Lanes to the Brighton Centre where the serious business of judging and awards was to take place late into the evening. There were significant numbers of Germans, Norwegians, Swedish, Americans and of course good old Brits, not to mention some of the hairier local boys whod come out to enjoy the spectacle.
If youve ever though about a beard or tache give it a go, as the old song goes lots of girls love a fella with a bush upon his mush!
Er werd daar door glamour-fotograaf 'SHERI' een selectie gemaakt van snorren en baarden voor Time Magazine. En ik plaatste mijzelf toch wel bij de eerste 2O zeker !
Vandendriessche Guy Age 52. Town Crier Izegem Belgium. Sideburn Freestyle competitor.
Jack Passion Age 23. Walnut Creek, CA, USA. First place winner, Natural Full Beard category.
Weindl Siegi Age 35. Linz, Austria. Freestyle Beard competitor.
Jurgen Reinl Age 40. Freestyle Beard competitor.
Servay Wolfgang Age 61. Pforzheim, Germany. Goaty category
Alexander Antebi Age 26. Los Angeles, CA, USA. First place winner, Imperial Moustache category.
Franz Mitterhauser Age 53. Austria. Sideburn Freestyle category
Gunnar Rosenquizt Age 46. Olofstorp, Sweden.
Uda Blatz Age 53. Hutte, Deutchland.
Rundeep Singh Age 30. Norwood Green, United Kingdom.
Udo Fritzscie Age 56. Kanstanz, Deutschland. Imperial Partial Beard competitor.
Luke Walker Age 24. Paris, France. English Moustache competitor.
James Hood Age 26. Tufnell Park, United Kingdom.
Wolfgang Reuswich Age 53. Backuaug, Deutschland. Sideburns Freestyle competitor.
Andrew Craig Age 46. London, United Kingdom.
E C (Ted) Sedman Age 69. First place winner, Fu Manchu category.
Gray Plunkett Age 50. Dunwoody, GA, USA.
Seigfried Jesierny Age 56. Haldenweg, Germany.
Willi Chevalier Age 65. Sigmaringen, Germany. First Place winner, Partial and Freestyle Beard.
Full Beard Verdi 1. Durmus Sensoy Germany 2. Cebo Hayrudin Germany 3. Willi Segalotto Germany
Full Beard Garibaldi 1. Franz-Peter Pill Germany 2. James Hood UK 3. Fritz Sendlhofer Germany
Full Beard Natural 1. Jack Passion USA 2. Gunnar Rosenquist Sweden 3. Richard Newman UK
Full Beard Natural with Styled Moustache 1. Burke Kenny USA 2. Siegfried Jeziemy Germany 3. David Traver USA
Full Beard Freestyle 1. Elmar Weisser Germany 2. Hans Gassner Germany 3. Gerhard Knapp Germany
Prize mugs are pictured with their respective beard and moustache categories painted on during the World Beard and Moustache Championships at the Brighton Centre on September 1, 2007 in Brighton, England. The World Beard and Moustache Championships is a biennial event participated by beard and moustache wearers from all over the world.
Wild and wonderful whiskers are on display as the World Beard and Moustache Championships visits the Brighton Centre in 2007. Come to marvel at the length, breadth and diversity of facial hair - just don't mention the word "shave"...
After months of growing and grooming, competitors have the choice of 17 different beard, moustache and goatee categories, from natural to flowing and freestyle. Special prizes are awarded to the youngest contestant, the one who has travelled the furthest to attend, and the people's favourite. Hundreds of hairy contestants from all over the world compete to impress the spectators and a panel of judges.
A number of competitors from all over the world took part in the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships at Brighton in England on Saturday.
Amy Redmond: "I had a brilliant time". Here she is with one of the participants.
Contenders converged on the competition sporting a range of facial hair styles. Photo: Sarah Booker.
The championship was first staged back in 1990 in Germany. Here is Amy Redmond's picture of German contestant Elmar Weiser.
According to the show's organiser, the aim of the competition was to "put a smile on people's faces".
The world's biggest and bushiest facial hair growths were proudly on show and hoping to win their category.
Gandhi Jones from Seattle, US, with Paul Lewis from Brighton, who went on to win the "Natural Moustache" category. Photo: Sarah Booker.
Participants display their own particular style of moustache or beard. Photo: Sarah Booker.
Sarah Booker says she is "very proud" of boyfriend Paul Lewis. "He's the only person I know with amazing facial hair."
Steve Andrews: "I may not be a contestant but I think I would have stood a good chance. I first dyed my beard when I was a performer at the Green Man festival in Wales".
The best beards in the world
Bobbie Johnson Monday September 3, 2007 The Guardian
Sporting a moustache is rarely considered an extreme sport, but things got a little hairy in Brighton this weekend, as thousands of spectators turned up to witness the 9th world beard and moustache championships.
More than 250 contestants from around the world entered the finals in Brighton, the first time the event has been held in the UK.
The contest is split into 17 categories including Verdi, Garibaldi, Hungarian and Dali. Rules on entry are strict; wax and hairspray are acceptable for most classes of beard, but hair dye and hair extensions are banned as performance enhancing substances. The winner in the coveted full natural beard category was Jack Passion from San Francisco: "I feel fantastic, I'm 23 and I have the best beard in the world," he said. "I looked like a groom; too bad you never get married when you have a huge beard."
Hair-raising sights at World Beard and Moustache Championships
1-sep-2007
LONDON (AFP) Some of the most stylish fuzzy faces from across the globe gathered in Britain on Saturday to do battle over their beards.
The World Beard and Moustache Championships 2007 saw a wealth of the planet's most bizarre facial hairstyles congregating in Brighton on the southern English coast.
Some 250 competitors from Britain, Germany, the United States and many other countries were on parade on the seafront for the biennial event.
"Everybody has got a smile on their faces. It's a whole day of seeing amazing facial hair," said organiser Steve Parsons of London-based group The Handlebar Club.
He insisted facial hair was growing in popularity.
"It has been a dying breed but they seem to be on the increase, moustaches. It's picking up in younger men," he insisted.
Competitors were vying for the tankard with a moustache shield that comes with victory.
This weekend world championship called «World Beard and Moustache Championship» took place in the English city of Brighton. The competition was divided into two phases. Initially, participants were required to show jurors his mustache and beard in all its glory, Subway on the podium. In the second round, the judges check the authenticity of their hair and soft and silky.
Willi Chevalier, from Germany, competes in the World Beard and Moustache Championships, held at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, southern England, Saturday Sept. 1, 2007. The Bi-Annual event is being held in Britain for the first time, and coincides with the 60th anniversary of The Handlebar Club, an international club for people with beards and moustaches. (AP Photo/PA, Clara Molden)
Brighton, England, saw a lot of hair on Saturday (September 1st). It was the annual World Beard and Moustache Championship. Im not sure who won, but looking through the flickr pool, there are quite some doozies. Its hard to tell with some of them which category they fall under. The one above was one of my favorites. Some people are just able to grow facial hair really well. But then being able to style it in ways such as this takes some talent. Im not sure if he was going for elephant tusks, or what, but it definitely gets some attention. This next beard surely gets a prize for number of curls, though not to be outdone by this one . Spikes were a pretty popular style . But big curls were even more so. This guy had to have won for his freestyle beard of what might be London Bridge. Of course, there had to be good ol traditionalists. It looked like the participants were all good-humored people, all enjoying the chance to show off their facial hair. How could one attend such a competition and not fail to be impressed with what one saw? Although I dont think Id have a remote chance of winning, I think it might be fun to attempt something like this one day.
World's Best Whiskers Vie for Honors
September 2, 2007
Elmar Weiser, from Germany, competes in the World Beard and Moustache Championships, held at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, southern England, Saturday Sept. 1, 2007. The Bi-Annual event is being held in Britain for the first time, and coincides with the 60th anniversary of The Handlebar Club, an international club for people with beards and moustaches. (AP Photo/PA, Clara Molden)
LONDON (AP) - One contestant had a mustache twisted into the shape of London's Tower Bridge; others sported bushy beards that would make Grizzly Adams envious. In the end, Beard Team USA nabbed four of the top honors _ by a whisker _ at the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
About 250 shaggy men from around the world competed Saturday in 17 different classes of facial hair at the competition in Brighton, England.
The event had long been dominated by German beard clubs, but the Americans made a strong showing at this year's competition, taking victories in four categories.
Jack Passion, a 23-year-old from San Francisco, won the highly competitive "Full Natural Beard" competition with his flowing orange fuzz.
"I feel fantastic," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "I'm 23 and I have the best beard in the world."
He attributed part of his success to his outfit, a blue tuxedo and bowler hat, which helped bring out the red in his beard.
"I looked like a groom," he said. "Too bad you never get married when you have a huge beard."
The mustache categories include the "Dali" _ slender with long tips, straight or arching up _ and the big and bushy "Hungarian," while the beard categories ranged from the shorter "Verdi" to the rounder, more expansive "Garibaldi."
Those with particularly fanciful fuzz _ like the man with the Tower Bridge growing from his face _ competed in freestyle categories.
Competitors were barred from using extensions or hair pins, although wax and hairspray were allowed in some cases.
The first World Beard and Mustache Championship was held by beard enthusiasts in Germany in 1990. The next championships in 2009 will be held in Anchorage, Alaska.
"Anchorage knows how to put on a show," said David Traver, 42, who is organizing the 2009 event. "And they have a fantastic appreciation for whiskers."
Ik ben Guy Vandendriessche, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam moustache.
Ik ben een man en woon in Izegem (België) en mijn beroep is Museum-medewerker.
Ik ben geboren op 04/06/1955 en ben nu dus 69 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: ESA snorrenclub, belleman Stad Izegem, motorrijden,....
Andere hobby's :
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