You are not logged in.

#1 2013-08-24 05:30:12

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Just started in on my beard for Yom Kippur.

Any love for the non-Hipster beard on here ?

I keep it short & trimmed. A bit  Hipster really...   BAH !

wink


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#2 2013-08-24 05:40:10

TheExpandingMan
Member
Posts: 841

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Without a beard, you're the same as any other woman or child. 

I've had a beard since 1992.  I started off with the mustache/goatee, then evolved to the full beard a few years later.  Now it's sort of a short, trimmed-low-on-the-cheekbones jaw-hugging kind of thing.  Pete Townshend-esque, I would say.

 

#3 2013-08-24 05:56:23

Jeff Reed
Member
From: Brooklyn, New York
Posts: 991

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Most of the orthodox Jews I work with wear them. They are not of the untrimmed variety, so they look decent. During the three weeks and other periods they let them go. It begins to look a little gross at those points.

My dad was always clean shaven except when he and his friends went to Ontario every year for fishing. Then he would come back with 2+ weeks of a beard. It scared the hell out of me to see him like that.

I remember my mom kissed Mr. Wolfe (perfect name) at a party at our house once. Mr. Wolfe had a mustache and I remember she liked it. The swinging 70s. That too freaked me out.

I would just look like a gay man if I tried to grow a beard. My uncle wears a beard and I look quite a bit alike him. He is gay.

So, yeah, I won't be growing a beard, but I support anyone's efforts to do so. I am also a supporter of gay rights.

 

#4 2013-08-24 06:23:05

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

I wear one for the High Days & Holidays...

And I regard it as a thing to be 'worn'.

Like a tie or a scarf.

I'm 'Reform'.


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#5 2013-08-24 06:25:57

fxh
Big Down Under.
From: Melbourne
Posts: 6159

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

I have a ziff at the moment. When I was younger and wilder I had a full Ned.

 

#6 2013-08-24 06:29:07

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

The Townshend beard is my ideal... Christmas 1987 at The Ivy Shop and Sir John Lally sold him two pairs of Sebbys.

I just hung out and chatted to the great Ian Strachan.

Roll on 3 months & the great John Gall was doing my job there.


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#7 2013-08-24 06:33:58

TheExpandingMan
Member
Posts: 841

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

 

#8 2013-08-24 06:54:34

Jeff Reed
Member
From: Brooklyn, New York
Posts: 991

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

 

#9 2013-08-24 07:19:07

TheExpandingMan
Member
Posts: 841

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

A beard is a commitment.  No wonder it's been used as a religious symbol for centuries.  You can't really fake it; either you have a beard or you don't

The Amish get one when they marry.  In Islam you are instructed to "trim the mustache but let the beard flow".  Even the Cuban revolutionaries believed in the beard.  The length of your beard showed how much time you had spent in the hills, away from luxuries like hot water and razors.

When I was into motorcycles, I once went for two years without shaving or trimming my beard.  It was an awe-inspiring sight.  Now I keep it trimmed close.  I've thought of shaving it off, but I just can't bring myself to do it.  I have forgotten what my chin looks like.  Maybe it's really ugly, and that's why I covered it up in the first place.

 

#10 2013-08-24 07:34:02

Armchaired
Ivy I.V.
From: Old England
Posts: 7580

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#11 2013-08-24 07:41:18

Jeff Reed
Member
From: Brooklyn, New York
Posts: 991

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

 

#12 2013-08-24 07:48:05

doghouse
Member
Posts: 5147

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...


Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#13 2013-08-25 02:10:24

Kingston1an
Member
Posts: 4180

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_Liberation_Front

Flettski claiming the beard for socialists.


"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#14 2013-08-25 06:08:07

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#15 2013-08-25 06:12:55

Liam
Moderator
Posts: 2068

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

You can let your hair grow out but stay clean shaven and keep The Look. You can keep the hair short and neat and grow out the beard some and keep The Look.

But can you grow out your hair and your beard and keep The Look?

Discuss


"Plup." Jimmy Frost Nachtman.

 

#16 2013-08-25 07:22:37

TheExpandingMan
Member
Posts: 841

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Long hair maybe, but a really long beard is hard to grow and look good with.  Once it gets beyond the "noticeably trimmed" stage, you can dress up all you want but you'll just look like a well-heeled hobo.

 

#17 2013-08-25 07:42:53

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

I like a Jazz beard.     MJQ-ish.

Jazz Grooming deserves a thread...

I'll get a photo of my 2 day old efforts up here so you can scream hatered at me, if you fancy.

It won't change my chin, but you will all be welcome to scream, roar, cry, pee your pants and vent your spleen.

- If I can stop any of you from beating your wives and kicking the dog by letting you yell hatred towards me online then my living will not have been in vain...

Shalom.


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#18 2013-08-25 07:43:56

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

I'm a big boy... I can take it on the chin.

wink

x


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#19 2013-08-25 08:07:25

Liam
Moderator
Posts: 2068

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Lol. Chin. Lol.


"Plup." Jimmy Frost Nachtman.

 

#20 2013-08-25 23:43:45

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Chin pic to follow !

It's ever more 'pepper & salt' as I slowly decay. I'm only really growing it to intimidate the neighbour's cat... 'You pee in my garden, I'll pee in yours' I told it. It looked quite alarmed at the thought of  that. And so did the bloke next door....

Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours.


Best -


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#21 2013-08-27 16:40:57

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#22 2013-08-27 16:42:04

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

Did you ever see such a happy face ?

That's drugs, that is.


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#23 2013-08-27 16:45:39

Liam
Moderator
Posts: 2068

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...


"Plup." Jimmy Frost Nachtman.

 

#24 2013-08-27 16:48:42

Jeff Reed
Member
From: Brooklyn, New York
Posts: 991

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...

I feel like you could do better. I mean he's cute in that English bulldog way, but pretty he is not.

 

#25 2013-08-27 17:15:22

Topstitcher
Member
Posts: 2519

Re: Reclaiming The Beard From The Hipster...


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

Board footer

Powered by PunBB
© Copyright 2002–2008 Rickard Andersson