[Closed] are beards now "in"?

In general yes, however don't worry, your one is still horribly unfashionable. 🙂

Is it now socially acceptable to sport a beard without being seen as an outcast or pervert?

No. IMHO.

For a couple of years at least, hipsters started and then going more main stream.

Just attention seekers 😛

Only if you are about 25

I know who I hold responsible for it. Among other things they'll one day be held to account for once I'm running everything. Not long now.

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I grow a beard every few weeks and then shave it off. So I'm either half fashionable, or half unfashionable.

Yes and have been for a while apprantly, thankfully it's spring so my one was shaved off a month or so ago and they will be out of fashion by the time it gets cold enough that I need to grow another one 😉

Is it now socially acceptable to sport a beard without being seen as an outcast or pervert?

Depends on the beard type

Beards are pretty cool I think

No--unless you're Santa and it's Christmas (even Santa shaves in the off season)

Binners, I'm happy to report I have no idea who the chaps in your pic are

Give me a clue

[url= http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jul/24/have-we-reached-peak-beard ]They were "in" but are now on the way back "out" again. Do keep up.[/url]

which one of those is you bin man?

Mumford and Sons rocketdog

Binners loves them

Ah, yes pseudo-folk another band wagon that's currently overcrowded

Is the one in the middle daddy mumford? on the borderline between beard and excessive stubble though really arn't they?

the middle left one's just made a joke about the one on the right having a little one, the middle right one is laughing, the one on the right is laughing but secretly sad because he does a small inadequate one and the one on the very left is thinking 'I've got a great manly one'
...beard that is.

Don't forget flat caps.
Can't fart in Ancoats without offending some semi-bearded cap wearing simian.

I've not been so cutting edge since flares came back the first time.

Only if you are about 25

27 and I'm currently rockin' a deeply unfashionable Grizzly Addams number. Usualy it's a winter beard, but I'm thinking it might stay for the rest of the year this time.

I know who I hold responsible for it. Among other things they'll one day be held to account for once I'm running everything. Not long now.

I see no beards? A bit of stubble, but no beard.

In general yes, however don't worry, your one is still horribly unfashionable.

Back of the net.

Emsz.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you don't exactly speak for all of woman kind. 😉 The scruffy beardy types whom the meeja have taken a liking for, do in the real world go home alone.

jonathan - Member
I grow a beard every few weeks and then shave it off. So I'm either half fashionable, or half unfashionable.

You're both! But I can't fathom out which is which. When you are or when you aren't 😀

I've no problem with beards. What I WOULD like to see back are big moustaches. Then I'm in.

no idea
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if fashion is me then I win

Hora, like this:

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Or this:

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Beards are so two years ago.

Quite a good looking dude when he was younger. Thats the power of the moustache you see.

Need to be kept clean and tidy. Z Z Top look is not good. Some beards can look hot. 😀

Just been [s]perving[/s] Googling for hot men with beards and they're in short supply. Even George Clooney looks scary with one!

Moustache - Tom Selleck!

I'd say they were in a while ago but now on the way out

Pretty hot for an old geezer:

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I had one for years and shaved it off on Tuesday, as everywhere I looked there were men younger than me (wouldnt be hard) with expansive facial hair. I'm officially awkward.

😆

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Can I do my joke again?
If ****ing gives you hairy palms who did you get your beard?
I once said this to a patch holder in a bikers pub after he took the piss out of me in my cycling gear.
Luckily he laughed.

Soks Jr (21) sports a beard. For that reason, I'm out.

Even in the stringent old school, old boy, old Harrovian types I work with are starting to adorn a full (all be it immaculately trimmed) bushy face. Ok so it's in Shiney Town where you can see Hoxton tube station from our 30th floor but for sure the hairy face is here for about 4 more years until the Hoxton types get promotions and the world changes once again.

Beards are [i]always[/i] cool, even when they're not 'in'.

Do you wash yours Mike?

I'm quite liking bearded blokes. I Blame sons of anarchy!

Do you wash yours Mike?

It's in the vicinity of the shower when I have a shower.

In the vicinity?
How long is it?!

It's not that long :)>

Mine's a [url= http://network.details.com/post/how-to-style-a-ryan-gosling-beard-celebrity-beards ]'Ryan Gosling beard'[/url], though it's currently in need of a trim so I look a bit like Frankie Boyle.

On the basis that the feller (full on SOA style) they are using for advertising the men's department at my local John Lewis store I'd say it's day is done.

I was down to see Bill Callahan at Celtic Connections, felt like a bloody beardies convention, I've never seen such a concentration of facial hair in a confined space before (nor chunky knitwear).

Bloody arrivistes!

mh (not knowingly cleanshaven since 1992)

Beards have 'been in' since about 2009. Word on the street is that beards are on their way out ➡

You heard it first on WRMX

Peace

It's not bloody fair. I'm 36 and can't grow a decent beard. Bit of a 'tache, bit on my chin and some on my cheeks. Even more annoying is what's there is relly thick and grows fast so I still have the hassle of shaving, more so because if I don't I look daft.
Bloody genes 🙁

To change the point Mumford and Sons are utter sh#te. Folk rock by Marks and Spencer.

Haven't shaved since Jan 1st. I like the look and so does my GF, despite the grey bits! 🙂

Mike.

Please tell me you posted a link to that trendy beard site just to make me angry?

Please?

The rapha ad up there,looks like a cycle tramp convention

Of course, the key question is, do you also have an artisan axe?

I had the misfortune to find myself in a nightclub in Shoreditch a couple of weeks ago ( I am old enough to know better) seemed that all the lads had beards, brouges and too much tweed/tight trousers. I'm so ancient.

Generally shave just once a week as I hate shaving. My wife reckons I look weird without a beard / stubble.

I don't have much hair up top, so it's like I have a point to prove.

^^ waves at joolsburger 😀

I've said it before. I blame terrorists co the beard fad.

I hit 40 in January and decided it was time to play with growing a beard because I never had. I'm on my second now, and the mrs doesn't like it. I'm threatening to do a musketeers beard. She's not sure if I'm serious. Neither am I but it's all good fun!

Last week I finally had enough of my wife pointing out my fore and aft [s]bald spots[/s] areas if slightly finer hair, so I cut my hair and beard back to a number 2 all [s]over[/s] round. That'll teach her.

I'm not sure this has any bearing on whether beards are 'in' or not.

In for sure

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But a man with a beard like the t-shirt will undoubtedly be single. If a man with a partner decides to grow one then he's chosen a life celibacy.

You never hear a woman say "that Grizzly Addams bloke, I want me some of that"

I grow about 12 beards a year saves me a fortune I razors. 😆 be doing it for about 5 years now.

I'm pretty much the opposite of fashion mind you so none of this metrosexual beard trimming malarky here! 😆

I never wet/clean shave and always have stubble - currently trying a beard though and have about 1/2" growth. My skin seems to suffer though, so don't know how long I'll stick it out.

Head get's shaved once a week with no guard and closest setting.

Massive wild beard here and a head of uncut unstyled hair, im madder than a box of lunatics anyways so its a fitting look 🙂
And a beard aint a real beard till its 3 or 4 months in at least! Anything less is just stubble 😛

Having only done the beard thing once, and having had a firm8I rejection from mrs_oab, I won't be returning to face fungus. However, *I* liked it.

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Beards are wonderful things. First grew one in the summer between the 5th and lower 6th years. Primarily to piss off a mate who was a year older and announced that here was going to be the first person in the school to ever grow one. Apart from the odd few weeks when it shrunk to a 'tache it's always been there for me. ZZ top had nothing on me in my early 20's. think Duck Dynasty. I could plat it into my fringe. Sadly being 50 means that the fringe isn't there any more and the beards rather patchy white which looks "different" to my black hair.
Beards are good at hiding spare chins, keeping pencils on and saving bits of fried egg for later.
they also work like Velcro fro certain other types of curly hair if you are lucky 😆

Shave face everyday,head every week.
Feel dirty if I don't.

100 Beards in 100 Days Tumblr project: http://100beards.tumblr.com

cinnamon_girl - Member
Just been perving Googling for hot men with beards and they're in short supply....

Of course not. We're camera shy, not like those attention seeking chaps who shave so they can look like prepubescent boys.

matt_outandabout - that looks fine ie clean and tidy with no food crumbs lurking!

footflaps - I've just had a word with myself for getting up to page 10 of bearded men. 😳 Jeez, there's some scary blokes there. 😯

epicyclo - oh, didn't realise that!

cinnamon_girl - Member
...epicyclo - oh, didn't realise that!

Yup, if we weren't so camera shy we would be stalked by hordes of women and unfortunately, even a bearded man is incapable of keeping more than one woman happy. We're such caring chaps that we get quite melancholy about the thought of hordes of unsatisfied ladies. 🙂

epicyclo - Member

cinnamon_girl - Member
Just been perving Googling for hot men with beards and they're in short supply....

Of course not. We're camera shy, not like those attention seeking chaps who shave so they can look like prepubescent boys.

Really? 😀

As an occaisional beardist, I've always considered facial hair to be
the equivalent of walking around with your parts hanging out of your pants.
Usually small parts, because we all know that beards are essentially compensation. 🙂

And the need for hipsters to bang on about things like beards and jeans?
Here's some news - you didn't invent them.

Growing a beard is not a sign of virility, intelligence, intellectual prowess or rebelliousness.
It's a sign of narcissism & laziness:
As is not washing your jeans.

Rusty Spanner - Member
...As an occaisional beardist, I've always considered facial hair to be
the equivalent of walking around with your parts hanging out of your pants.
Usually small parts, because we all know that beards are essentially compensation...

You've obviously done considerable hands on research on man parts, and I'm afraid that I cannot contest your statement with contrary fact.

In my youth I also did extensive research, but unfortunately all my research was on lady's parts, and whether things fitted satisfactorily, with happy results. So sadly I lack the data to dispute this with you.

Perhaps you could detach your awesome genitalia and send them to an anatomy lab so we can get your assertions independently and scientifically verified.

In the meantime, I feel belittled... 🙂

I'm only going off personal experience, obviously.

I'm hung like a baby sweetcorn, and find a beard helps me feel like a real man, as does the huuuuge artisan chopper hangin' from my belt.

It breaks up the monotony of my face quite nicely too. 😀

Me, yesterday.

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Take a chill pill Rusty. 😉

CG, I'm perfectly chilled, but thank you. 😀
I do like a nice discussion though.

Whilst not meant to be entirely serious, d'ya not think there's a grain of truth in my post?
It's a Freudian thing - some people post pictures of their beards on the internet, some aim a little lower. 🙂
'Look at my big beard & huge chopper mummy......'

cinnamon_girl - Member
Take a chill pill Rusty.

He's quite chilled.

But too much chilling could shrink his "sweetcorn". 🙂

I disagree with you! I think it's great that blokes are interested in their appearance, it's really no different to tattoos, piercings etc.

To be honest, if I was a bloke I'd probably have some sort of beardage. Shaving every day, what a pita. Don't know how some of you blokes do it!

Provided you're not a hipster type then it's really self-deprecation and what's wrong with that?

Again, I must emphasise that it mustn't be straggly and must be washed every day.

😀

Growing a beard is not a sign of virility, intelligence, intellectual prowess or rebelliousness.
It's a sign of narcissism & laziness:
As is not washing your jeans.

Blimey http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/controlling-anger.aspx

What are you like when there is really something to get worked up about?

cinnamon_girl - Member
...Again, I must emphasise that it mustn't be straggly and must be washed every day.

But then you lose all those interesting things to nibble on days or even weeks later...

(Ugh, I think I've just disgusted myself 🙂 )

rOcKeTdOg - Member
What are you like when there is really something to get worked up about?

I find it harder than usual to discuss my small penis issues. 😀
How about you?

Come on RD, I'm poking fun at all blokes, myself most of all.

Not shaving [b]is[/b] narcissistic & lazy - if it wasn't, people wouldn't do it. 😀

I'm just aout to shave off two weeks growth btw.
I think it looks grey, distinguished and manly.
Ms S thinks it looks scruffy 🙂

Alright, just calm down now, go to your "quiet place"