Are beards coming back?

[Syt]

I wish I could grow a proper beard. While hair sprouts pretty much anywhere on my body, my face has "desert spots" where nothing grows, and my beard grows very slowly. If I don't shave for a week, I look how other guys look after 2 days. Additionally, on my upper lip the hair is dark blond/brownish in the center, and light blond on the sides, so if I let it grow it looks like a hitler/Chaplin mustache from afar.

The hair on my chin is the only facial hair that I can properly cultivate.

[Ideologue]

I have a smallish spot on my chin that's bald due to a scar from my "why don't I see if I can get my face kicked in every six months" days.

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm getting a grey streak right in the middle of my chin. Dunno what to think about that.

[Brazen]

Coming back? In London at least we've already reached Peak Beard. I first spotted a meedja hipster in Soho sporting a full George V and playing darts (ironically) seven years ago and it was a sign of things to come.

[Norgy]

Beards are back!

I have friends that look like they take fashion advice from the Taliban.

[Brazen]

Beards are back!

I have friends that look like they take fashion advice from the Taliban.

Should we tell our nuns to take up defences?

[Norgy]

Wouldn't hurt to be prepared. Then again, who'd want to go to Northumberland this time of year? Or any other time, really.

[The Larch]

I trim mine whenever I start to look as if I just came down from the Sierra Maestra.

[Norgy]

In your case, beards never left, did they, Larchie? 

[The Larch]

In your case, beards never left, did they, Larchie? 

I've been sporting a full beard continuously since 2011.

Never went full hipster, though, as it starts getting itchy and uncomfortable (not to mention unsightly) when it gets close to the "latin american guerrilla" stage, so I need to trim every once in a while. Great for winter, though.

[Ed Anger]

The flavor saver.

[Viking]

I'll shave my beard today

They've come back. I think they're mostly on their way out again now. But some men (I think possibly me) simply look better with a beard, so hopefully we're moving into more folically tolerant times

Edit: Also that article's an interesting American perspective. Needless to say in late Victorian Britain a strong beard was not a sign of a radical:


Edit: I always love when I read Trollope and you can normally tell how attractive and morally upstanding his male characters are by his description of their facial hair. In general 'masculine whiskers' are a very good sign. But he practiced what he preached:

Beards made a comeback in the victorian era after almost 300 years of clean shaved faces after the Crimean War. During that war regulations on shaving for soldiers were relaxed due to the harsh conditions and the returning "heroes" often had full beards and an attachment to the habit of wearing one. You see young lincoln (this is he last beardless image of lincoln in the fall of 1860), young darwin or young dickens

It's a bit funny that a cancer charity drive seems have let men express their masculinity without reproach.

[lustindarkness]

I grow a beard just about every month, between drill weekends.

The Wife says she will leave me when I retire from the Reserves and start looking like uncle Si from Duck Dynasty.  I'll miss her.

[mongers]

I grow a beard just about every month, between drill weekends.

The Wife says she will leave me when I retire from the Reserves and start looking like uncle Si from Duck Dynasty.  I'll miss her.

I think I'd look like captain Ahab if I every let mine grow more than say seven days.

[Valmy]

Beards made a comeback in the victorian era after almost 300 years of clean shaved faces after the Crimean War. During that war regulations on shaving for soldiers were relaxed due to the harsh conditions and the returning "heroes" often had full beards and an attachment to the habit of wearing one.

The Sideburns during the Napoleonic era were pretty fantastic though



Still clean shaven is better.  Romans > Greeks.