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    I obviously could not have a beard while in the Marines, then I started working security and couldn't have one there either.
    I finally got to grow one when I was doing construction, but then went back to security and it came off. I got myself into a management position and the beard has been back for a couple of years now.

    I usually have a Van Dyke (proper name for what is usually called a goatee) but since Thanksgiving I've had a full beard. I havent grown one of those since High School, and that wasn't a real beard at the time.

    It's nice and think now, and the red beard carries on right up into me sideburns. Just at the top of the ear the color transitions to the dark brown hair of my head. It's an interesting effect, the color demarcation is very clear and sharp. Almost looks unnatural.

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    I've been sportin' a beard since the summer. My lady loves it and it does go quite nice with a kilt, especially since my beard's quite red - stereotypical Scot, a kilt and a big red beard. I've also had the big mustache with the ends waxed and curled, and the Wolverine chops. All look good with the kilt.

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    Ahhh beards...living as the Creator designed a man.

    I well remember the very first time I let my beard grow back in the late 60s. It did wonders for my face. I "looked" Scottish! My response was to buy tartan shirts and tartan neckties (those were the suit days). Wound up getting fired over it because one customer complained I looked like a hippie. My response was to keep the beard and interview with the beard so it wasn't an issue.

    I shaved it off once in the 80s thinking it might help get a promotion...being clean shaven didn't help. So grew it back. Then in the 90s was on a spiritual retreat and I decided to shave it off for a while. I found my late father's image staring back at me in the mirror and I immediatly grew it back and its been in place ever since.

    I'm blessed/cursed with a common Celtic face and am often mistaken for others. That's okay. Means I'm "part of" my tribe.

    And yes, I think kilts, particularly tartan kilts, dress up a beard very nicely.

    And no....I'm not hiding my "real self" behind a beard. Men that shave are hiding their "real self" by not allowing their beards to grow out as their Creator intended.

    Ron
    Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
    Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
    "I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."

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    I shaved my goatee and mustache off last year and people begged me to grow it back...I had one guy offer me money, I looked that bad!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yaish View Post
    I usually have a Van Dyke (proper name for what is usually called a goatee) but since Thanksgiving I've had a full beard.
    Maybe it's a regional/generational thing, but for me, a Van Dyke always implied a specific kind of goatee, the one which came to a sharp point. It was the one villains always had in the movies and cartoons!

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    Well, I don't have beard yet, but I think the beard and kilt were made for each other. It gives it a viking/barbaric feel. ZZTop...in kilts....

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    Well, guess you could let your hair and beard grow very long, then take up wearing a belted plaid. Don't forget the long shepard stick with the hook on the end. You might even hang a booda bag from your belt and have a goat fur sporran. Oh, and you need to ride a hog too. I think that would work.
    I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
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    I've had mine for about 40 years. Shaved it off in 2002 - I no longer had lips!!!!
    Everyone begged me to grow it back, so back it came.

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    Men that shave are hiding their "real self" by not allowing their beards to grow out as their Creator intended.
    Different horses for courses, Ron. I have tried & tried to grow a beard and a moustache, all to no avail. It's better to shave, INMHO, then for me to have a very patchy, itchy beard.

    My "real self" is not determined by my facial hair (or lack thereof) -- it's determined by what's in my heart.

    T.

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    I started my beard in the 60's, yes a rebellious statement. Then the Army decided that I should join them and the beard came off. Once I left the Army I worked as a manager for McDonalds Corp. so not beard was allowed. Once I realize that McDonalds was not a bad job but it wasn't for me and I went back to college. The beard started the day I left McDonalds.

    Met my wife in college and married while bearded. After about 5 years of marriage I woke-up one day and on a whim shaved. My wife saw me started to laugh saying I married Captain Kangaroo. She was right the Cpt. was staring back at me from the mirror. The beard started back right then.

    I've had it for almost 30 years so far. I'm not sure I would know who I was with out the beard.

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