Bearded & Tschorn: Madcap beard caps

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Once I began my quest to understand the world’s bearded elite, I suffered a bit of ‘red car syndrome’ (you know, once you buy a red car, you start to notice a lot of red cars on the road, noticing beards and mustaches cropping up in all kinds of places. Most recently I found the ‘Beard Cap’ by Icelandic designer Vík Prjónsdóttir, which I stumbled across when exploring the appeal of the Slanket/Nuddle/Snuggie (Prjónsdóttir has a version of the functional body blanket called the Sealpelt that, yes, resembles a seal pelt).

Made of 100% Icelandic sheep’s wool, and available in two lengths and several colors, including medium brown, light gray and dark gray, the Beard Caps can be bought stateside for $135 at Scandinavian Grace in New York City.

For those who have always wondered what they might look like with a beard but who lack the patience to grow their own (especially those who frequent the cooler climes), the Beard Cap is the perfect solution.

But it won’t win you anything at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Anchorage -- last we checked ‘knit’ was not one of the 18 sanctioned categories of facial hair.
-- Adam Tschorn

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