So Beards Are Over – The Bold Italic – San Francisco

urlI’m so glad, I say. It must be true because someone in San Francisco said it and you know they know.

Why? Well, “The field is too crowded.” Yes, I think it is. I have to agree with the writer of this piece, Peter Lawrence Kane. Beards can now be so over, please? I mean really, everybody has one and everybody should not have one.

And by beards I don’t really mean those little 3 day stubble shadow things (Ok, I myself have one of those, in a goatee shape, not exactly on trend and not really a beard, but heck, I like it and let’s face it, I’m too lazy to shave the whole face at once). I think those are sexy and I’ve decided I’ll allow them to remain, indefinitely.

No, what I don’t really care for is the overboard look. Like these folks from our past, (Lincoln, Whitman, Freud. . .) couldn’t we just. . . let them be in the past? Along with their beards? They hide you, there’s really no way to tell what a man really looks like when a big bushy beard is covering up everything. And so often, when you find out, well, you wish you hadn’t.

So that’s where I stand on this pressing issue of our day. Have at it. But don’t get any beard hairs on my blog, please.

Other famous beards from the past (where they should stay):

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