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When did the beard come off, Jack?
When did the beard come off, Jack?
Two words, Duct tape.When did the beard come off, Jack?
the shaved head tough guy look and the 3 day hairy face ( beard) has become more than a little dated.
Camo anywhere outside of a deer stand or a duck blind.
And maybe a male pedicure with black nail polish.
I shave my head because of my baldness pattern, certainly not to look "tough". I do not do the three-day beard thing though, unless I'm camping and that's just because...
I do not dress like I did when I was twelve years old; shorts, tennis shoes, t-shirt, and a baseball cap. Unless, perhaps, if I am actually playing softball on the 4th of July. That said, I do see a lot of guys well over age 30 who think this is appropriate dress for going shopping, getting their hair cut, going to the theatre, even dining in a restaurant. It mystifies me.
Shirts with button down collars,hate them!
Very common in the North of England. I once left Liverpool (the best thing about that place is getting to leave) on a train on a Friday, early evening. It was full of young women in those track suits that look like glorified pyjamas with words on the bum, Ugg boots, and hairl ike that (with even bigger curlers). Totally brazen. they spent the journey trowelling on their make up, then just before we got into London, they went to the toilets andchanged into their clubbing clothes. I gather the 6am train the next morning would be full of all of them on their way back home.... The most mausing thing about it all is the clubs they go to all that way don't even have live music: it's all records they could listen to someone play at home for a fraction of the cost and effort!
I remember when I was six years old desperately wanting a camo jacket, and (being a child of the Troubles Generation in Northern Ireland) it being verboten. Eventually bought one in my early 20s in Copenhagen; short-sleeved, tropical wear thing, a sort of shirt-jacket. Wore it for a while pretending to be Fidel castro til the nocelty wore off, not owned anything camo since....
oh.... I *did*, when I was nineteen, have a Desert-storm era combat jacket/shirt in NATO two-tone desert camo, which I overdyed blue. That was quite cool at the time, though the cut was not a flattering one, even on the bean pole I was then, as the chest pockets were saggy and looked like odd-shaped breasts.
The UK's biggest reenactment event is a week long affair known as War & Peace. I haven't been for a while, the sanitation puts me off. Last time I was there I wore a camo shirt in material like this. No one said a word, I was most disappointed. The shirt got sold off soon after, someone offered silly money for it, so I took it.Camo anywhere outside of a deer stand or a duck blind.
The UK's biggest reenactment event is a week long affair known as War & Peace. I haven't been for a while, the sanitation puts me off. Last time I was there I wore a camo shirt in material like this. No one said a word, I was most disappointed. The shirt got sold off soon after, someone offered silly money for it, so I took it.
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