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Sideburns, Mustaches, Mutton Chops? Facial Hair Of The '60s & '70s
Groovy History ^ | 12/8/17 | Rebeka Knott

Posted on 01/02/2023 12:55:31 PM PST by DallasBiff

In the 1960s and '70s, facial hair -- including mustaches, sideburns, goatees, Van Dykes, soul patches, mutton or lamb chops and other creative topiary -- was a means of free expression and identity. The 1950s had been an era of extreme clean-shavenness; in movies of the time, a 5 o'clock shadow was a visual shorthand for intoxication or derangement. As young men threw off the shackles of conformity, they began experimenting with facial hair. From the beatniks' goatees and Van Dykes to full hippie beards, and then into the '70s with massive sideburns and pimp-ish mustaches. If you could grow it on your face, you had free rein to do so.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 60s; beard; facialhair; sideburns
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To: Chode

Dude, I had a great Fu Manchu, but I also had a full head of hair. The good ol’ days.


41 posted on 01/02/2023 2:07:16 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Jamestown1630

Wow.

I wish I could contact him about my dog with cancer.

:(


42 posted on 01/02/2023 2:08:04 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Salamander

43 posted on 01/02/2023 2:08:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Nah, that’s my mom’s fetish.

She has a bad thing for him but I never got it.

;D


44 posted on 01/02/2023 2:10:30 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Secret Agent Man
A good time to mention that Zardoz was set in the year 2023


45 posted on 01/02/2023 2:11:52 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: SamAdams76
"...60 years in crew cuts..."

.

My dad got a crew cut when he joined the Marines at age 18.
When World War 2 was over he kept the crew cut - until he turned 80.
He let his hair grow then - beard & mustache too.
All his hair was snow white at that point.

Then one day it dawned on me: "I am the son of Santa Claus!".

/sarc

He really did look just like Santa!

46 posted on 01/02/2023 2:12:11 PM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: Salamander

47 posted on 01/02/2023 2:12:45 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Salamander
You must have liked BlackAdder


48 posted on 01/02/2023 2:13:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Salamander

Not why I posted it. It was more of an affirming “bingo/dead on” kind of thing...


49 posted on 01/02/2023 2:15:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: gundog

/reaches out and smacks gundog upside the head

;D


50 posted on 01/02/2023 2:15:49 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Talk about synchronicity.

I’m watching Black Adder on ROKU right now.

LOL


51 posted on 01/02/2023 2:16:38 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I shave every 3-4 days, that’s not going to change.


52 posted on 01/02/2023 2:16:50 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Salamander

Alas poor Sean didn’t make it to the real 2023.


53 posted on 01/02/2023 2:17:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: vikingd00d
"Only Toshiro Mifune can rock a Man Bun."


54 posted on 01/02/2023 2:17:09 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Ah, okay.

But she’s still hot for him.

;D


55 posted on 01/02/2023 2:17:12 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I know.

He had nearly the perfect amount of furriness.

/Rory McCann is my dream fur

;D


56 posted on 01/02/2023 2:18:38 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Salamander
"I love bearded hairy guys."

.

Okay - but be forwarned - I'm following in my dad's footsteps -
my beard is now mostly white. A little gray, a little brown.
The whole 'salt & pepper' scenario. Mostly salt at this point.
LOL!

57 posted on 01/02/2023 2:22:21 PM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: DallasBiff

58 posted on 01/02/2023 2:22:58 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Night Hides Not

I haven’t shaved since March 1975, that’s not going to change either. Each to his own.

To me, shaving only every few days is not at all the same thing as spending time every day keeping stubble at a particular length.


59 posted on 01/02/2023 2:27:32 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

60 posted on 01/02/2023 2:30:51 PM PST by nascarnation
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