EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE AND OPTIMISM
Young women adopt braids and color...
At a festival, 2025
Young men do the same:
Grocery cashier, 2000
Café waiter, 2021 In the métro, 2022
Photos taken in 2025
City Hall employee (beards & Market vendor
moustaches tell the same story)
Café waiter Notions' vendor
Festival and trade show participants
African children like them too:
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American contrasts:
- A movie uses hair to show a character's timidity
"Friendship," 2024 by Andrew DeYoung with Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Image cut to emphasize figures / zoom
The unsure man with very short hair and no beard or mustache does not want to be noticed, in contrast to the self-confident figure he admires.
- More pronounced beards and caps can express toxic masculinity.
Hair styles express American men's hard times,
and those of the young Parisians, cheerfulness.
Because of the French safety net
and immigrant communities more solid
than those of working-class men whose jobs are gone?
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