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Toque with detachable 'beard' popular
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| Jan. 28
Posted on 01/28/2011 9:18:36 AM PST by JoeProBono
TORONTO, A Canadian man with little facial hair says his invention of the Beardo, a cold-weather toque with a detachable knitted beard, is selling nicely.
Jeff Phillips, 31, told the Toronto Star the acrylic beard with a hole for the mouth is held on by Velcro and is detachable or can be folded up inside the toque.
He said he came up with the idea while snowboarding in 2006 in British Columbia and began selling the Beardo online in November.
One of his Toronto clients, Andy Ye, said apart from keeping most of his face warm, the Beardo doesn't set off alarms in banks and stores as a full ski mask might.
Phillips said some men who can't grow real beards enjoy the opportunity to wear one.
"I have the facial hair of a preteen girl but I think the advantage a Beardo may hold over a natural beard is that a Beardo needs no maintenance," he told the Star.
He said he is expanding the line this year to include more colors and smaller sizes for children.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: beardo
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:21:37 AM PST
by
pingman
(Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
To: JoeProBono
Just to make absolutely, positively sure you get that “Special Serarch” from the TSA?
(Come to think of it, TSA would probably give you a pass if they saw that.)
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:23:29 AM PST
by
shibumi
(I am the Astro-Creep, demolition style an American Freak!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:24:40 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: JoeProBono
That’s One Toque Over The line ...
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:25:06 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
("Borrowing a trillion is compassionate, cutting a billion is heartless." -- VDH)
To: JoeProBono
I would totally get one for my little boy.
To: ScottinVA
Just when I got over the Rangers losing the World Series, you had to open that wound back up.
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:25:27 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: JoeProBono
Epic Beard Man Approves.
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:25:40 AM PST
by
Daffynition
( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
To: JoeProBono
Phillips said some men who can't grow real beards enjoy the opportunity to wear one. ...Because it looks so REAL!!
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:26:45 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: JoeProBono
"call it , Beardo"
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:27:11 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:27:30 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono

"An' it keeps the beer dribbles from runnin' down yer shirt, eh?"
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:27:39 AM PST
by
shibumi
(I am the Astro-Creep, demolition style an American Freak!)
To: dfwgator
Just when I got over the Rangers losing the World Series, you had to open that wound back up. Awfully sorry.. oh, wait... no I'm not! ;-)
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:28:14 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:29:25 AM PST
by
Gil4
(Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
To: ScottinVA
And those of us who can grow nice bushy beards. :)
Seriously I’m sure the ladies will learn to appreciate just why beards are good in cold weather.
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:30:22 AM PST
by
BenKenobi
(one of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.")
To: JoeProBono
Isn’t this technically a “facial merkin”?
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:30:57 AM PST
by
Nomen Klatura
(Global warming - the biggest scam since global cooling)
To: ReagansShinyHair
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:31:16 AM PST
by
Nickname
To: shibumi
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:34:17 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
I remember that ad on the back of comic books when I was a kid!!
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:35:58 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: shibumi
Take off you Hoser!
....singing....
5 golden toques,
4 pounds of backbacon
3 French Toast
2 turtle necks....
And a beer (in a tree).
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posted on
01/28/2011 9:36:16 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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