Hirsute or Not Hirsute

[Finistere]

I think part of the resurgence of beard and mustache care products is due to the popularity of beard and stache in the "hippster group". I see them all the time around the city I live in and they all look alike. It is most fun to see them in a pub sipping a beer and trying to keep their stache clean and beard primped. Ok that aside I have sported facial hair since I could grow a mustache in the 70's and the beard followed when it could fill out decently. Now days I keep it trimmed, it has its own natural shade of grey. Been grey since I was about 30 so it doesn't bother me.

Thank you, I've never heard of hipsters I'll have to Google it, I really like your bonnet, is it Donegal tweed? Kit

[brewerpaul]

Thank you, I've never heard of hipsters I'll have to Google it, I really like your bonnet, is it Donegal tweed? Kit

The bonnet is one I made using some 1956 era tweed material I had left over after making a jacket. I used an easy pattern and the tweed lends itself to not seeing the sewing seams to easily.

[Finistere]

The bonnet is one I made using some 1956 era tweed material I had left over after making a jacket. I used an easy pattern and the tweed lends itself to not seeing the sewing seams to easily.

Wow, your a real artisan, a very well made bonnet. Kit

[kiltedtom]

At 23 years of age, I grew my first moustache and beard. You could tell they
were my first efforts. For many years I would grow both for winter and shave off the beard on 17 March (sometimes the moustache too). For over 25 years now, I keep both all year long. The reason is not that I look particularly handsome with it, nor am I compensating for the thinning hair on top (really hate that part), but I simply hate shaving. So as you can see from my picture, I pretty much look like a cross between Santa Claus and Jerry Garcia. And since I am an ex hippy wanna be, I was born in 1958, so I am too young to have been one, my hair on top, what is left, is very long too.

Hope you all have a nice week ahead.

Tom

[GMan]

I have donned facial hair, since the mid 70's. The beard in its fullness and various shapes since 1980. Wouldn't have it any other way.

[cck]

Sixteen years ago when I was 64 I had to deal with a cancer situation. When I emerged from treatment, I had lost a lot of the hair on my head and it did not reappear. So I replaced it with hair growing on my face. Since then I have had a mustache and goatee.

[GrainReaper]

Sixteen years ago when I was 64 I had to deal with a cancer situation. When I emerged from treatment, I had lost a lot of the hair on my head and it did not reappear. So I replaced it with hair growing on my face. Since then I have had a mustache and goatee.

Good to hear you have only a loss of hair on your dome from the cancer... There are worse situations.

[The Q]

Thank you, I've never heard of hipsters I'll have to Google it, I really like your bonnet, is it Donegal tweed? Kit

Sadly the term Hipster is a a sign of age, or youth. It dates from 1940s referring to a group of people trying to be in the latest " in fashion (Cool) group". Hipster Has recently reappeared and the Youth thinks it's new.
But then the term Cool also dates back in the past, to the 1930s and that, as a term, goes in and out of fashion!

[John_Carrick]

I grew my beard last year after being glabrous for 26 years. I remember before that people said I looked better with the beard and then they said I looked better without it when I shaved it off. I guess I have always worked with courteous folk.
My hair is thinning too but it is black whereas as the beard is half grey.
John

With five other bearded kiltie friends in Idstein, Germany recently:

[Finistere]

I grew my beard last year after being glabrous for 26 years. I remember before that people said I looked better with the beard and then they said I looked better without it when I shaved it off. I guess I have always worked with courteous folk.
My hair is thinning too but it is black whereas as the beard is half grey.
John

With five other bearded kiltie friends in Idstein, Germany recently:

Thanks John, your looking good with that beard, I think it suits you. Kit