Anyway, aren't chinstraps already popular with hipsters? I know I've seen some.
Like, ironically?
Is there any other way?
Is this posting behavior a complicated cry for help? What's next? "I think driving a stick is more authentic than driving an automatic. What about you guys?"
Like I say, I know I've seen some, but I haven't kept particularly close track. It's not like I, say, like in Brooklyn or anything, so I don't see a wide spectrum of hipsterdom on a regular basis.
I know a guy with a chinstrap, or anyway who had a chinstrap, but he's no hipster.
Related facial hair content.
There are certainly other demographics in which the popularity of the chinstrap is unambiguous.
The guy with the red, pointy moustaches in the video in 8 looks very familiar to me, but it must just be because he instantiates a type.
6: I thought that cry for help was issued long ago with my "Golf/Cheers, I don't get it" bit. But no. Fontana Labs would occasionally drop two topics at a time, and I kind of liked it.
I've seen quite a few in Brooklyn's dens of hipsterdom, but not any kind of critical mass. However, I would bet there are a lot of guys who have avoided the current full beard trend because they can't pull off a credible mustache, and who will therefore happily jump on a chinstrap bandwagon if if pulls into town.
I think the next hipster trend should be tonsures.
This beard is also known as the fat-man's beard because it can cover up fat roll's under the chin! The chinstrap is also one of the easiest beards to grow because a lot of men cant grow a full beard on the face, but most men can grow on the neck and sides of the face.
IT'S MOLE.
I think the next hipster trend should be tonsures.
No, no, the Chester Arthur. Unless they've already done that one.
The chinstrap is too popular with LArry the Cable Guy types and pro baseball players to be indie-rocker material as of yet.
17 gets it exactly right.
'taches don't seem to have caught on in London hipster circles. I mean, our equivalent of hipster circles. I live pretty near the epicentre of hipsterdom in London, sadly, and I've yet to see any.
Chinstraps were in and then out here, like three years ago. Maybe it was a local phenomenon.
20: it's the lingering legacy of the 1980s. The current generation of hipsters are Thatcher's children, and Thatcher despised facial hair.
Not that the pasty/greasy/irritating hat look is much of an improvement.
"A beard is not a substitute for a jawline!"
Chinstraps were in and out like 15 years ago. I don't suppose that counts.
I just go ahead and let all the hair that will grow on my face grow, and ta-da: totally unhip!
I think the next hipster trend should be tonsures.
I'm repping for ceremonial beards, worn pharonic-stylee.
Michael Stipe rocked a tonsure circa 1984.
If I am half-competent, there is a post scheduled at 7:30. So I don't mean to stomp on these posts. It's scheduled.
Aren't chinstraps terribly late 90s? I picture the guy from Semi-Charmed Life.
Maybe the 7:30 minute has to end before it posts.
Maybe it waits 10 minutes, just in case.
Oh, I see I scheduled it for 7:32.
Maybe the 7:32 minute has to end before it posts.
Wasn't Stipe's tonsure just early male-pattern baldness?
26: There was a French guy at the O(riental)I(nstitute) who had complicated hair. One of the classics profs, thinking it was some kind of hommage à the second kingdom or something asked him about it. He replied, no, en fait, it was for "le boogie woogie." (This guy was pretty awesome -- he used to rock right the fuck out Jerry Lewis stylee on the practice pianos next to the classics building, one of the better things about hanging out on the balcony there and smoking.)
The back end claims it was published. Stupid scheduled feature. One sec.
37: Maybe it was covering that up -- but it was a fully realized tonsure.
One friend of mine rocked a Cue for much of the 90s. He was sort of a trend of one, though.
23: I think "Dogg I cannot brook the gossamer bloatee" is a serious contender for best sentence ever written.
41: I have perfect hair for a cue, but giving off that Walter Mitty Samurai vibe would repel the kind of women I'm attracted to. It's too bad, as I love playing with my hair. Nature has decided I need a tonsure or similar, so I can't just let it go the way I did in college. On the plus side, the cue ball look is easy to maintain and exposes the sensuously innervated scalp. Laydeez.