Growing a beard just to wear a fedora

[hatophile]

Beard and hat fit you well. You look like a distinguished gentleman farmer.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

I grew the mustache after slicing my upper lip when shaving at college. By the time my face healed, I had a mustache. I've had it for 32 years now. I last shaved the beard off in 1985 for the wedding and in 1998 for Scout Camp.

My beard is patchy gray, brown, and a little red. I tried dying it, but that made it look worse.

Later

 

[Orangegrad]

Beard and hat fit you well. You look like a distinguished gentleman farmer.

Hah! Have to show your post to my wife when she gets home later on. I'd love to be a gentleman farmer.

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

Hah! Have to show your post to my wife when she gets home later on. I'd love to be a gentleman farmer.

Being a farmer, I consider that to be the ultimate compliment. I have been called a gentleman farmer once in my life, and was wearing a fedora at the time. I was flattered.

 

[Lt.Tom]

Ah, I wish I had your problem. I originally grew mine because it creates the illusion that I only have one chin.
I'll abstain from voting. I think you look fine either way.

 

[Hoss & da Posse]

Good on ya to have the option of full beard or not. My wife prefers (demands, actually) me with facial hair but my beard comes in too thin for my liking. I've kept a fairly close cropped moustache/goatee for twenty years now and was recently inspired by Ben Kingsley (portraying George Melies) in the Martin Scorcese film Hugo to grow it out a bit...We'll see how it looks in a few more weeks but this is what I'm going for:

and the original:

 

[sulla]

Sorry, back in - I didn't grow a beard for a fedora, but I did grow a beard last fall to wear my bowler... and the rest of my Victorian outfit.

Ignore the anachronistic glasses. Oh and car.

 

[Orangegrad]

Sulla - love the entire outfit (even with specs and car). I have not gotten into period clothing yet, but have been thinking about it recently. My wife, however, might wonder about the clothing part. She's ok with the hats.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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If my follicles could actually crank it out, I'd grow this type of beard and wear it forever:

 

[1961MJS]

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If my follicles could actually crank it out, I'd grow this type of beard and wear it forever:

Hi Marc

I'm kind of working on that one, but my jaw isn't really thin enough having more of an Otto Von Bismark face than a Wilhelm II / George V / Tsar Nicky face. The wife doesn't like the curl on the end of the mustache and I get the whole "You look stupid" thing.

Later

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Hi Marc

I'm kind of working on that one, but my jaw isn't really thin enough having more of an Otto Von Bismark face than a Wilhelm II / George V / Tsar Nicky face.

I feel your pain. Lounger DOUGLAS grows a great beard every winter, then shaves it off:

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

" The wife doesn't like" "and I get the whole "You look stupid" thing."


Oh, I if I only had a dollar for every time I have encountered one or the other of these.

 

[hatophile]

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If my follicles could actually crank it out, I'd grow this type of beard and wear it forever:

He does have a great beard. Too bad he came to such an untimely end.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

" The wife doesn't like" "and I get the whole "You look stupid" thing."


Oh, I if I only had a dollar for every time I have encountered one or the other of these.

We've got a thread about this: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?37971

 

[Marc Chevalier]

He does have a great beard. Too bad he came to such an untimely end.

His cousin, Britain's King George V, had a similar beard and a more timely end.

 

[Blackthorn]

A gray beard denotes wisdom. And a fedora has the same inclination, I'm thinking...

 

[hatophile]

I think you're thinking correctly, Blackthorn.
Douglas' beard has that "Royal" look to it!

 

[Benzadmiral]

As I mentioned a few posts back, here was my inspiration:

My beard has never been that dark, but then my hair is lighter anyway.

 

[Gromulus]

I also think you look fine either with or without tht beard. Yours is fairly full and compliments your face so I also vote to keep it. I have had a moustache since I was 16 years old but never looked good in a beard, particularly since I have a couple of bald spots near the chin area. I can grow one up to my eyebrows but the "less than full" look on my chin prevents me from having one. I admit I do not like men with thin, scraggly beards. I have to fight my inclination to recommend that they shave.

 

[PADDY]

The current Duke of Kent has a very Tsarish beard similar to his Russian Cousin & wears it very well.