Ralph Lauren Model

So yeah, I was looking up modern beard fashion, and I came across this article. Although the article is from March, 2006, I think it still fits today. Bushy beards is no longer the worst thing in the world. Ralph Lauren even has models that wear bushy beards, which I find awesome (maybe I could be one?).

Favorite parts of the article:
His shaving regimen involves the use of a razor about as frequently as the seasons change.

Martin's idea of a style symbol, seriously, is Ulysses S. Grant, whose beard he came to admire after watching the 2003 Civil War-era drama "Cold Mountain."

Andrew Deutsch, a designer of interactive Web videos, swears that having a beard has changed his life, giving him an air of confidence. "I met my current girlfriend a week after I started growing my beard in November," Mr. Deutsch said. Now he finds himself constantly touching and stroking the beard, as if it were a talisman. "It's like a security blanket on my face," he said.

Yet the return of the wild beard carries a certain erotic charge that has been missing from beards since the Furry Freak look of the 1970's, or at least those who grow them hope they do.

That a full beard can suddenly look right — or, more accurately, not so awful — illustrates how quickly ideals of masculinity can change.

At hipster hangouts and within fashion circles, the bearded revolution that began with raffishly trimmed whiskers a year or more ago has evolved into full-fledged Benjamin Harrisons. At New York Fashion Week last month at least a half-dozen designers turned up with furry faces. }

"For a while men have looked too much like Boy Scouts going off to day camp."
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Long live the beard