Posted on Oct 27, 2014 Updated on May 30, 2021, 8:11 am CDT
This year, 300 people tossed their facial hair into the ring for the annual World Beard and Mustache Championships in Portland, Ore. Home field advantage worked wonders for local Madison Rowley, who took first place in the Garibaldi category, plus the top prize overall.
A cinematographer, actor, and director, Rowley has faithfully documented his now-legendary beard’s rise to prominence on Instagram. It’s one thing to assess whiskers like these in the sterile milieu of competition, quite another to behold its majesty in the wild.
Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He's the author of two odd books of fiction, 'Ivyland' and 'True False.'
