Faux facial hair fashion

September 23rd, 2009

The humble moustache has been around since Neolithic times, when Ugg began shaving with stone razors and Mrs Ugg grunted approvingly. It heralds the change from boy heard to man, because it is a symbol of masculinity and it has a host of variations from handlebar the oddity that is the ‘Dali’ to the Fu Manchu.

Giant tache man

Giant tache man

Fashion designer Cindy Liu shows her love of moustaches with her range of designer scarves featuring moustaches ‘Cowboy and Gangsta creations’. LeMoustache has also went for ‘hairy scarf chic’ with their deluxe curly creations on Etsy.

Ladies tache scarf

Ladies tache scarf

Of course if you aren’t quite ready for Gangsta style women’s scarfs, you could always play safe and try the new Hermes scarf collection with the stylish Libris logo for £150.

American Apparel went one step further with their facial hair fashion accessory and created the moustache mask or tache balaclava. Shown below In a Mini Tache or Major Tache style both £15 from American Apparel.

Tache balaclava American Apparel

Tache balaclava American Apparel

Not to be out done beardHead.com created these snowboarder masks called ‘the lumberjack look’ the masks cost of around $25. They also do a ladies version called ‘bunny’.

beardhead.com beard hats, also in pink

beardhead.com beard hats, also in pink

Of course it doesn’t just have to be men’s and ladies scarfs and hats, how about something functional like a purse. Caroline Ballhorn’s prosthetic beard bags have hidden pouches to keep credit cards or cash in. As Caroline puts it “its somewhere to put your change if your on a naked cycle race”.

Caroline Ballhorn's Beard purses

Caroline Ballhorn

Of course you might simply want to be proud to display your love of Facial hair faux, with no other purpose other than it being beautiful. If that’s the case then i made you a beard is your destination, Erin Dollar featured here sporting a rather snazzy ‘Villain Beard’ priced at $40, will make you a wonderful beard of any colour or texture.

Erin Dollar's imadeyouabeard.com

Erin Dollar

So where does this leave the humble tache? Well facial hair and fashion have coexisted for centuries, I’m sure that this will continue to be a tache made in heaven

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