[Closed] HebTroCo, Ed Oxley and Beards in the Sunday Times

He only realised in 2020 that beards weren't just for 'outliers and outlaws'?

Well they are up North, these things take time to get there...

Slow news day for the times was it ?

*Man shaves beard*

Well they are up North, these things take time to get there…

Hebden Bridge reached peak beard about 40 years ago.

Hebden Bridge reached peak beard about 40 years ago.

And that was just the women.

Mullets are coming back! That’s made me very glad that I’m bald.

I’ve had a beard for years too. Can I have a journalist pop around to discuss it for no apparent reason? What’s this outliers and outlaws nonsense too. The only way shaving should be newsworthy is if you’re Billy Gibbons.

I live in hip Bristol and mullets are very definitely coming back. Chatted to my barber about it back in the spring, he said he had a couple of regulars who have gone full mullet...

Mullets and moustaches. Stop the world I want to get off.

Mullets are coming back! That’s made me very glad that I’m bald.

I’ve had a beard for years too.

just draw your face on the back of your head.

Beards were out by 2013 and moustaches and mullets have been in for a few years for those following the fashions but most people don't seem to want to lose their beards.

I think a moustache or a mullet is much harder to pull of so don't expect to see the take up that was seen with beards.

It's all only really for men in their 20's anyway, if you were around the first time something was fashionable then you are too old to carry it off again and I was definitely around in the first mullet era.

Hebden Bridge reached peak beard about 40 years ago.

And that was just the women.

Really?

I’ve had a beard for years too. Can I have a journalist pop around to discuss it for no apparent reason?

Do you sell trousers to Hipsters at £300 a pop?

The idea of people shouting 'Land Ho!' at Ed across the street makes me giggle. Hebden is clearly a lot more genteel than I figured.

Mullet with a perm at the back was a thing in the 80's as well,so it is an emphatic no from me.

Slow news day for the times was it ?

*Man shaves beard*

No, that's not news....

*Man shaves beard, but doesn't like it and grows it back!*

There, much better 🙂

I think a moustache or a mullet is much harder to pull of so don’t expect to see the take up that was seen with beards.

Nobody can pull it off unless their aim is to look like a total ****. Mullets are for comedy effect and moustaches by themselves are the preserve of the dictator

moustaches by themselves are the preserve of the dictator

Ahem.

The manager at the restaurant I went to last night (cool guy in his 30s) rocked one quite well actually.

Nobody can pull it off unless their aim is to look like a total ****. Mullets are for comedy effect and moustaches by themselves are the preserve of the dictator

An attractive man with the right face/hair can easily pull off a moustache. Never seen a mullet look good though.

I don't do fashion. My beard has been in permanent residence since the mid 70s.

*Man shaves beard, but doesn’t like it and grows it back!*

Could be more succinct.

‘Man shaves, then doesn’t.’

What was the name of his barbershop video, I can't find it anymore on Youtube?

An attractive man with the right face/hair can easily pull off a moustache.

Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck are the exceptions to the rule 😀

Could be more succinct.

‘Man shaves, then doesn’t.’

I feel my version played on the schadenfreude the reader would naturally feel over a smug beardy git coming some minor cropper.

I do appreciate the elegant pithyness of your version though.

Let's pitch them both to the Times and they can decide?

"What’s this outliers and outlaws nonsense too"

It does kind of make sense.

there is big difference in beards, bit like bikes. To some an apollo BSO is the same as a 12K carbon enduro gnar machine as they are both bikes.

lots of folks can have a beard and look a bit like a geography teacher or sex offender. To have a BEARD...like a really proper, one that only a wizard or viking should have is still and always will be the preserve of weirdos and freaks as it takes years of dedication, not just "not shaving for a bit"

also see tattoos and body piercings/modern tribalism, for similar phenomena. lots of folks have a trend friendly versions, very few are properly tattooed, stretched, and modified

To have a BEARD…like a really proper, one that only a wizard or viking should have is still and always will be the preserve of weirdos and freaks as it takes years of dedication, not just “not shaving for a bit”

It’s not really a beard if you can still see the persons neck from the front in my opinion. Just falls under not shaving for a bit. I’ve had an epically large beard (on and off) for about twenty five years. Don’t see it as any different to having a procession of different haircuts to be honest. Just cut it off again for a bit last week. Probably start growing again soon. That’s boredom and baldness for you!

astonishingly mullets are probably due a comeback, if 1988 is peak mullet and then the second wave reached peak mullet 16 years later (2004)* then the third wave should be upon us by now, probably a covid related delay. In fact, we might be seeing it with Amyl and the Sniffers.

My mullet thesis can be extrapolated backwards, so 16 years pre 1988 its obviously 1972 - when Bay City Rollers bestrode the fashion world like colossuses (collossi?) So there's a fourth wave

my thesis comes with some caveats, obviously the mullet has always been de rigeur in the travelling community and trailer parks in US and Oz, and also in hipster enclaves in East London. So im talking mainstream adoption of the cut.

Im fairly sure this thesis will stand up to academic scrutiny.

*speaking from personal experience, office worker 'fingerbang' boasted of an achy break heart ginger mullet

Mullets have been a thing in pro rugby for the last few years, and it’s getting worse and worse:

I suspect it’s because between training there’s a lot of downtime…

There are pictures of me in the 80s with a mullet, Chris Waddle back perm and all

The mullet makes a lot of sense if you work outside in eg Oz.

How? Other than saving time needing to get yourself a haircut, I'm not sure it has any benefits. Longer hair makes your head hotter, can have more things getting stuck/trapped in there and once you get a sweat on, the hair just gets in the way...

Basal cell carcinomas might be one reason.

Finally found Ed's barbershop video, it's been 8 years already:
https://singletrackmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/the-chop-with-ed-oxley/ or

Urgh I would have guessed 3-4 years ago!