# Men with short hair and long, full beards **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071 "2015-05-28T21:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/1 "2015-05-28T21:16:20Z")
Lately I’ve been seeing men with short hair and **big** , full, trimmed beards–like lumberjacks, romantic poets, or Mormon patriarchs. Not scraggly, afterthought, “don’t own a razor, man,” hippie-ish beards, but groomed, intentional in-your-face (as it were) facial hair that seems to be making a statement. What is it saying? Not zillions of guys, but a few, and in mainstream jobs, retail settings, at the mall, etc. There’s a cell phone kiosk at one of the upscale malls here and two of the guys look like the guys in these pictures. At Wal-Mart this morning, one of the checkers had short hair and a beard as in these pictures, but he also had several tiny silver pierced earrings on the top of his left ear. [Pic #1](http://www.menhairstylespictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-short-hairstyle-with-beard.jpg) [Pic #2](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/76/38/b3/7638b3bbbfaa32b5304b6c65117c6d11.jpg) [Pic #3](http://in1.ccio.co/86/V1/j8/72cf2ad7bf810e39ac33389ff3eb6550.jpg) Is this a thing now? Is there an anthropological basis for this style? It seems to be a pendulum swing in the opposite direction from the 5-day-growth that was passing for a beard in recent years? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/2 "2015-05-28T21:18:55Z")
It’s a thing now: [lumbersexual](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/lumbersexual-beard-plaid-male-fashion). ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/3 "2015-05-28T21:26:13Z")
Those are homebrewers. I can’t grow a beard, so I got kicked out of the club. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/4 "2015-05-28T21:41:39Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > It’s a thing now: [lumbersexual](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/lumbersexual-beard-plaid-male-fashion). :eek: ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/5 "2015-05-28T21:47:27Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > [lumbersexual](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/lumbersexual-beard-plaid-male-fashion). …and I’m ok. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/6 "2015-05-28T22:03:43Z")
We don’t believe you. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/7 "2015-05-28T22:06:35Z")
Don’t look for logic and sense in fashion. That’s what it is, a fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/8 "2015-05-28T22:07:34Z")
I know I’m a curmudgeon, but this has to be the most hidious look in generations. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/9 "2015-05-28T22:14:06Z")
I thought this was a hipster thing. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/10 "2015-05-28T22:14:07Z")
While you’re at it, explain [the guys who shave their entire head but have a full beard starting just below the earlobe (in a point)](https://www.google.com/search?q=beards+on+shaven+head+men&espv=2&biw=1322&bih=684&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=vZJnVYvCF4KNoQTjt4LoDQ&ved=0CB0QsAQ). Take your pick of pic. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/11 "2015-05-28T22:20:51Z")
[James Harden](http://www.rantsports.com/nba/files/2014/10/3James-Harden-Copy.jpg), Houston Rockets [Chris Kaman](https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/b9_H1_PbroAzIVqV-vWltyYM_u8=/0x0:1335x890/730x487/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/46186164/usa-today-8490054.0.jpg), Portland Trail Blazers ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/12 "2015-05-28T22:25:29Z")
The OP’s last 2 pix look like a refresh on a late 1800s style. Men used to be proud of their beards. The clean-shaven look almost makes me think society is afraid of men’s beards. Or what they represent. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/13 "2015-05-28T22:28:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The OP’s last 2 pix look like a refresh on a late 1800s style. > > Men used to be proud of their beards. The clean-shaven look almost makes me think society is afraid of men’s beards. Or what they represent. Beards aren’t my thing, but I’m okay with them. Who cares, right? But long disgusting beards with shaved heads, that crosses a line. Free country and all that, but I don’t have to approve. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/14 "2015-05-28T23:11:12Z")
I’ll bet it has something to do with [cough drops](http://michaelbastillustration.com/uploads/2012/08/the-bros-final.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/15 "2015-05-28T23:21:34Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Lately I’ve been seeing men with short hair and **big** , full, trimmed beards–like lumberjacks, romantic poets, or Mormon patriarchs. Not scraggly, afterthought, “don’t own a razor, man,” hippie-ish beards, but groomed, intentional in-your-face (as it were) facial hair that seems to be making a statement. What is it saying? > > Not zillions of guys, but a few, and in mainstream jobs, retail settings, at the mall, etc. There’s a cell phone kiosk at one of the upscale malls here and two of the guys look like the guys in these pictures. At Wal-Mart this morning, one of the checkers had short hair and a beard as in these pictures, but he also had several tiny silver pierced earrings on the top of his left ear. > > [Pic #1](http://www.menhairstylespictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-short-hairstyle-with-beard.jpg) > > [Pic #2](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/76/38/b3/7638b3bbbfaa32b5304b6c65117c6d11.jpg) > > [Pic #3](http://in1.ccio.co/86/V1/j8/72cf2ad7bf810e39ac33389ff3eb6550.jpg) > > Is this a thing now? Is there an anthropological basis for this style? It seems to be a pendulum swing in the opposite direction from the 5-day-growth that was passing for a beard in recent years? That first pic is rather like me, although my beard is a little shorter and more scraggly. I do it because I like it. Fashion has nothing to do with it–I’ve had a beard for 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/16 "2015-05-28T23:25:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The OP’s last 2 pix look like a refresh on a late 1800s style. Definitely. They look like time travelers. > [@](#): > > Men used to be proud of their beards. The clean-shaven look almost makes me think society is afraid of men’s beards. Or what they represent. I love a beard on a man. As long as the beard isn’t bigger than his face. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/17 "2015-05-29T00:33:03Z")
**ThelmaLou** , you’re a gal after m’own heart! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/18 "2015-05-29T00:35:49Z")
[This guy.](http://fscomps.fotosearch.com/compc/CLT/CLT003/kx5424.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/19 "2015-05-29T00:38:34Z")
I’m not sure the full head of hair with full beard look is any better. I remember watching the World Series last year and thinking it looked like the All-Amish championship game! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071/20 "2015-05-29T00:46:36Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > [This guy.](http://fscomps.fotosearch.com/compc/CLT/CLT003/kx5424.jpg) You going to argue with HIM? Fine, more presents for me–coal for you. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-with-short-hair-and-long-full-beards/721071.md?page=2)