Goatee anyone?

[Bart]

Say gents, has the goatee "gone with the wind" or is it still as popular as the past 8 or so years? What's the concensus for this style of facial hair today among the Fedora Lounge crowd?

 

[binkmeisterRick]

My concensus is that I look good in my goatee, so I don't give a darn what "fashion" says.

 

[BellyTank]

I had one for a while but my beard is too solid- no gaps, so it's just hair and lips.
Makes a Pencil Moustache virtually impossible too.

The goatee is surely not a particularly Golden Era adornment though, especially Stateside.

B
T

 

[mysterygal]

I think generally men look great in a goatee....take for instance, our own MK.
I've never liked guys with beards, too much facial hair.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

The goatee is surely not a particularly Golden Era adornment though, especially Stateside.

Strangely, goaties are the distinguished Orthodox Jewish gentleman look during the Golden Era. But alas (or: oy), that was before the modern ZZ Top look came into fashion, and was eventually labelled "traditional".

The length of the goatie varied a lot, the whole range except for gangsta rapper.

 

[Johnnysan]

My concensus is that I look good in my goatee, so I don't give a darn what "fashion" says.

Same for me...

 

["Doc" Devereux]

I finally gave up the goatee after many years' faithful service because I acquired a scar on my upper lip that makes the hair there grow in odd directions or not at all. Now I wear a pencil moustache to draw attention away from it which, I understand, is the same reason Howard Hughes wore his moustache.

Admittedly I was getting sick of the Anton LaVey comparisons too (thanks to my haircut and area of specialisation), but that clinched it. I also agree with BT, a goatee with a thin moustache (which I tried for a while) doesn't quite look right.

Up to that point I thought it was the best thing my face had ever worn.

 

[Quigley Brown]

I'm usually pretty clean-shaven, but once in a while I'll let it go for a few days. As of today this is my fourth day. One nice lady at work even took notice and complimented me! I'll go out to happy hour tonight and then it gets the razor tomorrow morning.

 

[Not-Bogart13]

Natural Concealer

I go back and forth from an MK-style goatee to my plain beard (see avatar). I find that when my face gets heavy, I need more coverage! But I prefer the goatee. I did try the pencil 'stache with a soul-patch for a while, but nobody seemed to notice. [huh] My Communications professor in college told me that my goatee helped frame my face very well, and that facial hair was very effective if "used properly"! So forget fashion, it's a practical thing!

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I first grew my goatee about '91 when it was "out there" to have one. About 6 years ago I thought there were just too many guys with them so I shaved off the stash and kept just the chin hair to maintain my "edge" . Being an artist I can't look too normal. I still feel it's golden era in a kind of midwestern farmer kind of way.

I'm not sure what just the chin hair is called.

 

[John in Covina]

For myself, I can't grow a beard or goatee, but I can get a sorta moustache. Now goatees when poorly done are remeniscent of cheap magicians or that guy in the red satin satan outfit. Out here there are those that grow the whiskers from just under the bottom lip to the chin and let them grow long! Every time I see it on a young guy, all I can think of is "Goat Boy" and as a throw back to the hipsters' hootnetannies, an offshoot of the beat generation with surfer and hotroder thrown in.

Maynard G. Krebbs, too! You rang?

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

I'm usually pretty clean-shaven, but once in a while I'll let it go for a few days.

That is, you let it go at the goatee place, but not at the cheeks and neck?

Seems a most cumbersome way of being lazy.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Update: Now I know from my avatar photo my beard may look thin, but I actually have a very heavy beard. It's just that it's salt and pepper (mostly salt) and it just doesn't show up in photos very well.

 

[Quigley Brown]

That is, you let it go at the goatee place, but not at the cheeks and neck?

Seems a most cumbersome way of being lazy.

Well then golly gee then, let me restate that. '...once in a while I'll let it go for a few days' in the goatee designated area. I take a magic marker (usually neon green) and draw a line around this goatee designated area and then faithfully shave each morning the facial area outside of the line. So actually it is a bit complicated and certainly not being lazy.

Regards,

Buck Swashler

 

[Lion]

That is, you let it go at the goatee place, but not at the cheeks and neck?

Seems a most cumbersome way of being lazy.

I disagree. The goatee area is the most anoying for me to shave and takes the longest. Cheeks and neck are quick and easy. I used to have a goatee for that reason.

Leo

 

[MK]

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Never trust a man with a goatee.

 

[mysterygal]

Not-Bogart, actually, when you get heavier and have the full beard , the beard makes your face appear rounder....that's what I like about the goatee is (when done properly) seems to slim the face down a bit.
You can trust a man with a goatee, just gotta keep him on a shorter leash

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Never trust a man with a goatee.

For some reason I have trouble believing you when you say that...

 

[qwerty]

Goatees are for the people who cannot grow a full beard.
Before I grow a full beard I was thinking about the goatee. But soon after my beard was here to stay I realized how stupid goatees look. Eather grow a mustache or grow a beard. But forget about goatee.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Goatees are for the people who cannot grow a full beard.
Before I grow a full beard I was thinking about the goatee. But soon after my beard was here to stay I realized how stupid goatees look. Eather grow a mustache or grow a beard. But forget about goatee.

That's like saying mohawks are for people that can't grow hair on the sides of thier head.