Saturday, September 28, 2019

EXUBERANT HAIR, BEARDS AND MOUSTACHES


EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE AND OPTIMISM

Young women adopt braids and color...

At a festival, 2025

Young men do the same...

Grocery cashier, 2000


Security guard and bakery vendor, 2025 (photos taken from behind to show the coiffures, but they were shaven).

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The looks spread world-wide: African children admire them.



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In the early 2020's beards and moustaches are added:

                     Café waiter, 2021                                       In the métro, 2022

Photos taken in 2025


                Barman                                         Notions' vendor 

Festival and trade show participants

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Whites adopt caps or versions that fit their hair. Beards and mustaches become global. In the U.S. :


         Oath Keeper photos

 Instagram  (recadré) et le New York Times (recadré)   
Brian Taylor Cohen, podcaster / Zohan Mandani, New York candidate for Mayor (both photos, 2025).

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Movie:
 The man with short hair and no facial hair
is unsure of himself and does not want to be noticed, 
in contrast to the self-confident figure he admires.


"Friendship," 2024 by Andrew DeYoung with Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Image cut to emphasize figures / zoom

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