https://vo.rs/tags/beard/Latest from the Beard desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:20:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-world-beard-and-moustache-championships/<p>This October, the Austrian alpine village of Leogang expects several hundred competitors from around twenty countries, each of them carrying a carefully cultivated piece of facial hair into a judged, categorised, internationally contested world championship. There is a moustache bracket, a partial-beard bracket, and a full-beard bracket, each split into further named styles with their own separate medals, and behind the spectacle of it sits a genuinely old piece of German small-town club culture that has quietly gone global.</p>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:20:00 +0000