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When did a beard go from being rugged to hipster?

Posted on 4/19/19 at 1:57 pm
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 1:57 pm
And how did it happen?
Posted by FlyinTiger93
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 4/19/19 at 1:58 pm to
Hipsters ruin everything.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
48809 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 1:59 pm to
When dudes like this that can't change a tire started growing them

Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79326 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 1:59 pm to
Honestly everyone has a beard now

rugged, hipsters, frat kids, gym rats, etc.
Posted by t00f
Not where you think I am
Member since Jul 2016
90551 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:00 pm to
do you need to read the ongoing threads about millennials?
This post was edited on 4/19/19 at 4:15 pm
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
30820 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:02 pm to
When an entire industry of beard care products that rival the womens hair care aisle was spawned.

And I have a beard, well goatee anyway. Have had a beard of one sort or another for 20+ years.
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:03 pm to
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
19569 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:04 pm to

Around the same time tattoos went from sleazy to hipster.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53122 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:04 pm to
My friend is a warden and he said the whole “beard” thing started in jail so the inmates could tell who was “available”
Posted by memphis tiger
Memphis, TN
Member since Feb 2006
20720 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:05 pm to
It can be either depending who’s wearing it
Posted by DVinBR
Member since Jan 2013
13044 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:07 pm to
tfw you are 25 but you look 15 because you don't have a beard
Posted by atxfan
Member since Jul 2004
3551 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:08 pm to
Started about 10yrs ago and I would say the tipping point was probably 5yrs ago.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62900 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:10 pm to
When arm tattoos became acceptable
Posted by Bigfishchoupique
Member since Jul 2017
8473 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:21 pm to
At one time most of the car salesman wore goatee’s and beards. I think they were trying to hide their face.
Posted by Good Old Baw
Member since Jan 2015
194 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:25 pm to
Around the same time Craft Beer and E-Cigs became popular.
Posted by Erebus
Member since Jan 2019
574 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 4:01 pm to
I think the recent technology & social media boom timeline has had a lot to do with it. Dudes of all walks of life have always had beards (if they liked beards), and no one really gave a shite.

Now in the days of mass social media usage, dudes everywhere are growing beards because it’s trendy and cool, not just because they like beards.

Posted by 995webmaster
New Orleans
Member since Dec 2007
3780 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 4:07 pm to
quote:

hen did a beard go from being rugged to hipster?


Facial hair has been going downhill since the mid-1990s, when frat boys started sporting goatees.
Posted by TOSOV
Member since Jan 2016
8922 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 4:50 pm to
When razors started to get more and more expensive during bad times. Easier to grow the beard instead of wasting money on 5blade razors.

Like women wearing panty hose more when the economy is down.
Posted by wheelr
Member since Jul 2012
5149 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 5:04 pm to
Did men always talk about each other's beards and say how manly they are?

I feel like it is a thing within the last 10 years, and that would correlate to when they became hipster.
Posted by boot
Member since Oct 2014
2889 posts
Posted on 4/19/19 at 5:59 pm to
Duck Dynasty made the beards really popular around the south.
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