Hirsute or Not Hirsute

[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.

[LANCER1562]

I've had a moustache for years. About a year ago the woman who is now my wife convinced me to grow a goatee. She says it makes me look younger than I actually am. When I get the chance I will change my avatar which I've had ever since I joined Xmarksthescot.

[Nile]

I first grew a beard as a 16 year old, enjoyed the freedom of not having to shave every morning and only needing to give it a trim once a week or so.

Hi Finistere; interesting question (though not necessarily kilt related, a lot of us do indeed have beards).

Similar to Liam, I experimented with a beard early in life and stopped shaving the day before I got out of the US Air Force, wearing a beard ever since. When I was very young (perhaps 10 or 11), my father's best friend grew a beard for a bicentennial celebration in his home town and I was very impressed with the look so I decided at that time that I would be a bearded person when I grew up. Ironically, I have a 17yo grandson who now wears a beard.

I must add... I'm a home brewer and for us, a beard is part of the uniform (isn't that right, Brewer Paul?).

Nile

[Standard]

My two grown children (27 and 24) have never seen me without at least a moustache, and for the most part without a beard as well. I used to grow the beard in the winter and shave late spring, but the current beard has been continuous since about 2000. I keep mine trimmed up, and occasionally use some beard oil in the winter when my beard dries out from working outside everyday as a land surveyor. I've got a friend who experiments with the moustache wax, but I've never messed with the stuff myself.

[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!