The air is crisp; leaves are amber; supermarkets are selling cinnamon brooms and men everywhere are better accessorizing their faces for a good cause. Yes folks, it’s Movember, and the RELEVANT Gentleman’s Society fully supports the movement. What is Movember? A moustache-growing charity event held during November each year. At the start of Movember, guys register with a clean-shaven face. The Movember participants—known as Mo Bros—then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache and along the way raise as much money and awareness about male health issues, in particular prostate cancer, as possible. Movember culminates at the end of the month at the gala partés. These glamorous and groomed events will see Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to take home the prestigious Man of Movember title. The movement isn’t limited to the U.S., as the official website has chapters around the world. Click here for the full info …
Randy Jones (the cowboy from The Village People) wants men in America to grow mustaches for Movember.
Society member Christopher Holmes, from Epworth, Iowa, sent us the following London Telegraph article detailing how the mustache went the way of the British Empire …
On today’s edition of the RELEVANT Podcast, we interview the executive director of the American Mustache Institute, Aaron Perlut. Click here to check it out (it’s in the last quarter of the podcast) …
On a completely unrelated note, we’re looking for a few Gentleman Bloggers to contribute to the site. If you’re interested, email us …
The American Mustache Institute has named former first baseman Keith Hernandez as the Top Sports Mustache of All Time. While we can’t really argue with their decision (he does have an epic ’stache and is in our own Hall of Legends), it caused the Gentlemen to think, who else would make the top 10 list in the sports ’stache category? Post your nominations in the comments below …
The movement has now officially hit the teenage girl’s apparel market. And as we all know, that’s where every great movement begins …
RELEVANT Podcast listener Clayton Bell sent us this email:
Sitting in the barber’s chair yesterday, I noticed that a mustached firefighter on the television (no, not standing ON the TV) was recounting during one of those A&E-type shows how he’d rescued someone from a burning house. It occurred to me that we’d left out a category from the “OK to have a mustache crowd”: public servants/first responders. As soon as this revelation hit me, a Florida Highway Patrol Officer walked to in get his hair cut with…you guessed it, a mustache! The guy in the seat next to me: mustache! And while he wasn’t a cop, his son was training to be a FHP officer, which is close enough. So I’ve got mustache cop, mustache father of cop, mustache fireman on the TV, and another guy waiting in line with a mustache, who, while not any kind of officer, did have a belt buckle with more than five words on it (one of which was “UZI”), so that’s gotta count for something!
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Remember Nate from last season’s Beauty and the Geek? (He was the guy who sang in a Star Wars tribute band.) Well, he’s created a music video called “Ballad of the Beard.” Tagline? “Have you ever shaved your beard into a mustache and then wondered if that was the right thing to do?” I think we all know the answer to that one …
You know mustaches are back on the fast track to mainstream credibility when the Time magazine does a photo essay on them. Behold portraits of this year’s World Beard and Mustache Championship winners. Be warned: They’re incredible …
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