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By Dulcie Lee
Ginger-haired
Hundreds of redheads from astir the satellite person gathered successful the confederate Dutch municipality of Tilburg for an yearly festival celebrating their amber locks.
Natural redheads from countries including the UK, Israel, Germany, Italy and New Zealand made the travel for the three-day event, which organisers Redhead Days accidental is each astir "connection, pridefulness and recognition".
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Image caption,Internet property Peet Montzingo, who describes himself connected Instagram arsenic a "ginger with a soul", was seen surfing done the assemblage astatine the event
The festival was founded successful 2005 by Bart Rouwenhorst who, alternatively surprisingly, is blond.
The amateur creator recovered himself drawn to the aesthetic qualities of redheads, truthful advertised for 15 ginger models to overgarment - lone to beryllium deluged with 150 responses.
They were each photographed - but erstwhile galore of those who did not get selected voiced their disappointment, Mr Rouwenhorst decided to marque an yearly lawsuit of it.
In 2013, Redhead Days festival-goers made it into the Guinness Book of World Records erstwhile 1,672 radical got unneurotic successful the largest recorded gathering of radical with earthy reddish hair.
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Image caption,Festival-goers were capable to comparison their hairsbreadth against a partition of colour, from "pumpkin" to "Vincent" to "guinea pig"
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