Like body hair, Mustachio Bashio has grown over the years.
Dominic Abbott is one of the organizers for Friday’s party and said that each year the bash is bigger and better.
“It’s about putting your inhibitions aside, both men and women and letting the mustache shine,” he said. “If you don’t have a mustache, you’ll get one at the door.”
This year the party is at the Doubletree Hotel and they’ll have bands, DJs and beer.
“This year we’re bringing in two bands, Lost Lingo and the Squash Blossom Boys, as well as bringing in DJ Dizzan and DJ Click Click Bang,” he said. “This year there will be a mustache competition, and if they want to be in the competition they have to get there a little early to sign up.”
The mustache competition has different categories people of both genders are encouraged to sign up for, he said.
“The categories are Best in Show, the Bearded Lady, the Dirty Sanchez and more — I can’t give them all away,” Abbott said.
Andrew Hannington, an avid mustache grower, said he has had his mustache since he was 15.
“I trim it, you know, whenever you get boogers stuck in it or bits of clam chowder,” Hannington said. He said he has had mustache mishaps in his past, but he still likes the look.
“It blew my face up in a tar kettle,” he said. “Definitely when I set fire to it was the most traumatizing. A tar kettle is used for roofing, and it has two huge propane burners inside of it. When I asked if I could light it no one warned me that 10 minutes before they had been trying to light it (too), so the entire thing was full of gas. It was, in fact, a bomb. I put my head in it, lit the match and lost all the hair on my face.”
The pros of a mustache outweigh the task of maintaining one, he said.
“It’s extraordinarily sexy,” he said. “It’s a very sexy mustache.”
*Mustachio Bashio
Doubletree Hotel
201 Marquette Ave. N.W.
Friday
8 p.m. – 1:30 a.m.
$5*
