YOUNG MEN'S EXUBERANT HAIR, BEARDS AND MOUSTACHES

EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE AND OPTIMISM

The guys who wear them are happy to stand out.

Grocery cashier, 2000

                   Café waiter, 2021                                       In the métro, 2022

 

City Hall employee, 2024 (beards &                       Market vendor, 2025

moustaches tell the same story)

 Café waiter, 2025                                        Notions' vendor, 2025

Festival participant, 2025

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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. The self-confident personnage he admires has much more hair and a mustache.

• More pronounced beards and caps can express toxic masculinity.

This photo one of the multitude on the web: Please click "Oath Keepers images."

Hair styles express American men's hard times,

and those of the young Parisians, cheerfulness.

Because of France's stronger safety net

and immigrant communities are more solid

than those of poor whites that have been left behind? 

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How those styles began