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Amidst Moustache Mug Comeback, Someone Designed a Retrofittable Version for Booze

After writing about the colonialism-based invention history of the moustache cup, which went out of style in the 1930s, I should’ve figured the hipster groomed moustache crowd would have recently reinvigorated the market. And in fact they have. While you can still buy 19th-Century versions on the antiques market, like this one for $62…

…you can also find brand-new ones for sale, like this $18 one on Etsy, handmade in Serbia:

In fact, on Etsy it’s its own freaking category.

And of course, someone had to go and take it too far. Here’s the Whisker Dam, a “handmade copper mustache guard” that can be retrofitted to drinking glasses:

What, no hand-stitched vegetable-tanned bison leather carrying case?

And here I killed the Design Roast because I figured I’d run out of material.

https://www.core77.com/posts/93468/Amidst-Moustache-Mug-Comeback-Someone-Designed-a-Retrofittable-Version-for-Booze