When future historians look back on the late aughts, this period will undoubtedly be viewed as the dark night of our country's soul, a time when security was suddenly stripped away, faith in the church of capitalism was eroded, and, perhaps most hellishly symbolic of all, mustaches again became socially acceptable. Yes, hairy top lips have been bubbling under for a few years, but now the Times' David Colman has given the trend his imprimatur with a lengthy analysis on the subject, so we can't cling to denial any longer. Still, at least the article, in raking over the mustache's inglorious past, resists mentioning the most frighteningly evil 'tache-wearer who ever lived. Dov Charney, however, is quoted.
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edie
said at 2:38PM on Jan 08, 2009
From Beard to Mustache
2006
Here's what I think but I have yet to collect the data to support it, but I believe we have come into a time where man needs to embrace and express his manliness with keeping the soft, sensitive, and consciously aware self that he has been able to come to terms with since during the time of the metro-sexual.
The beard represents masculinity, rebellion and a dis-concern of the superficiality of a tidy appearance. It has returned to be a statement of freedom. I am sure it is influenced by today's current political condition. Perhaps even, subconsciously, the media attention to the Middle East and the images of bearded men has inspired the sporting of such facial hair.
In the seventies, we had the hippy beards and the east coast intellectual professorial beards. Today I believe it is a combination and men are ready to express it.
What does this have to do with morphing you ask? Well, as in past beard explosions, as with all trends, people will tire of it. What will follow? Naturally the mustache. Though I see the mustache as an inevitable fashion, I do hope the beard stays and has time to grow and all men across the country will allow themselves this very and unkempt form of expression.
That is it in a nutshell, and of course open to debate.
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