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The Gentlemen’s Expo

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This November welcomed the inaugural Gentlemen’s Expo at the Metro Convention Centre, the first event of its kind. Catering towards all things manly (read: cars, cadgets, clothes, food and booze), the Gentlemen’s Expo brought together an impressive array of Toronton retailers for a weekend of shopping, speakers and a lot of free samples.

The Gentlemen’s Expo hit a few snags, namely having all the booths ready to go come opening at 4PM on the Friday afternoon. But given it is only its first year, the results were impressive nonetheless. Bradford’s Guild of Automative Restorers arguably stole the show with an impressive display consisting of a vintage Bugatti, a 1918 Roamer touring car, the quintessentially classic Lamborghini Countach, and for a giggle or two, the legendary Super Van (George Barris’ love wagon from the 1977 film). Toronto’s favorite men’s boutique, GotStyle, set the sartorial standard, taking up a large chunk of the exhibition space for clothing. Garrison Bespoke displayed their tailored garments alongside a bullet-proof three-piece pinstripe suit, with reinforced bulletproof panels in the waistcoat, the strength of which was shown by the conspicuous holes in the lapels and a video demonstration playing near the display.

Easily the busiest stalls though were those run by the alcohol companies, clustered together near the front of the event and conveniently close to the food vendors. Expo-goers had six free samples, and evidently caught on quickly as to whose stalls served the most bang-for-your-buck. Crowd favorites turned out to be Jim Bean, who was handing out Old Fashioned’s, Stella Artois, who served samples in engraved take-home glasses, and Kronbacher, the line at which never seemed to get any shorter. Type D-Living and NestEgg filled up the home decor and gadget quota, rounding out the event nicely. Sadly the competition to have the world’s largest number of moustached men in one room didn’t quite go accordingly, but hopefully next year, as the Expo garners more vendors and more publicity, they’ll manage to beat that Guinness World Record.

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