Witness the incredible five-foot-long ‘stache that earned John Roy a decades-long reign as the longest mustache world record holder.
John Roy getting his mustache value in 1977 for Guinness World Records .
Everything old is new again : For proof , take a stroll through a Brooklyn street or peek into any major college campus and match out the abundance of facial hair . Yet no matter how surd people seek to bring in the mustache back , they will never meet the prevention set by Scotsman John Roy , the former record - holder for the longest mustache of all time .
Roy would have been notable even without his record - breaking ‘ stache , as he was a descendant of the notoriousScottish highwayman Rob Roy . sleep with as the Scottish Robin Hood , the outlaw was featured in Sir Walter Scott ’s novelRob Royas well as legion verse form by William Wordsworth .
John Roy getting his mustache measured in 1977 for Guinness World Records.
John Roy , a saloon landlord , had a more law - stomach occupation than his root , but he sure as shooting outflank the swashbuckling Scottish folk hero — and every other man then active — with his moustache , which valuate at just over five feet long .
By 1977 , when Roy was being valuate for Guinness World Records , his moustache had already work up up a name for itself . In 1949 , Roy acquire London ’s Handlebar Club Cup . TheHandlebar Clubitself is a wondrous resource for some of account ’s most impressive sensory hair , but not even its members could deal the grandiosity of John Roy ’s enormous sass jumper .
Most present - dayWorld Beard and Moustache Championship competitorsstill have nothing on Roy , and it ’s doubtful Roy would have guessed his mustache would still be in conversation more than 40 years after he enter the record volume . As for what he would have made of theglitter beard fad , we can only judge .
Unfortunately , Roy also could n’t predict the fragility of upper rim hair’s-breadth . His mustache bring out off while he was in the bathtub in 1984 . Then in 2010 , a man namedRam Singh Chauhancame along and blow Roy ’s record out of the water supply with his even longer moustache , which measured an incredible — and passably creepy-crawly — 14 ft long .
