to wonder whether anyone actually finds hipster beards sexy?

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Not the man wearing one, obviously they are all individuals and sexy in their own right and their mothers love them But the whole look, especially when taken to extremes of irony. Is it a thing like dungarees or Uggs for women, that people do for comfort and lack of hassle, and don't care what the opposite sex thinks? Or is there a total PHWOAR factor that I am missing?

Sorry but they just remind me of Emily from little Britain or Eurovision's Conchita...

What's a hipster beard?

Any beard is gorgeous except a ZZ top one.

I think if he sang at the animals they would turn and maul him (tuneless, makes him less godlike, bless him) now I have the lumberjack song in my head.

Guardian readers are preferable too!

Short beards only for me. Hipster beards are for twits.

Dunno what's hipster and what's not ( and care less)

But my very bearded housemate won't grow his long enough for me to plait and that's most unfair!

ooh- this thread has made me realise why I enjoyed Hinterland so much... must have been subconsciously leching at all the men with their lovely beards, sigh.

Hmm- I am actually going to London later this week. Where do all these lovely beardies hang out then? I don't suppose they're around the science museum or NatHistMus? Thought not

I think men with hipster beards are saying "I'm happy being single: I don't need a girlfriend".

I'm with Hey on the Yorkshire Ripper associations. Also had a psycho primary teacher in the seventies who used to beat us with a plimsoll. He had a lovely Jesus style beard and melty brown eyes. Unsurprisingly I have always been attracted to clean shaven, blue eyed blondes.

I hate all beards, hipster or otherwise. I cringe if anyone bearded kisses me. In my head they're scummy and unhygienic. Sorry to anyone who has one!

Fram, Hackney/Dalston/Shoreditch/Stoke Newington. Also the BFI cinema on the South Bank. Probably not so much the Science Museum or NHM, no. But you might find some old-fashioned geeks at the former. Good luck!

Come to think of it, Imperial College and the Royal College of Art are near the museums. Perhaps there'd be some young beard activity round there?

Beards haven't been hip for about two years now.

Thanks onlylovers! I could probably wangle a sidetrack to the South bank, not so much Shoreditch

Will definitely have to come in to science museum from Imperial direction... though likely too young for me

Where are the older beardies then?

I don't know. I think the Hackney and South Bank ones are from 20s to 40s at least, though, so quite a range.

Happy hunting!

I love a beard.

I live in AchinglyHipEastLondon, and it's making the wall-to-wall wankers bearable as they all look lovely

Not as keen on the 1930s haircuts doing the rounds, though.

Oh I love a bit of vintage mugshot chic!

I prefer the dapper chaps in this mugshot

Love beards

Goatees less than other sorts though

I love hairy men. Bloody love all the young beardy blokes wandering about with tattoos. Makes my grizzled old soul very happy. Yes, a fair amount of them are probably unbearably pretentious and annoying, but I'm only windowshopping in the shallowest way possible so who cares.

Rank, rank, rank.

I work in Dalston and I have to shield my eyes when I go out to get my lunch, lest the horror overwhelm me.

Goodness squoosh... W T O'Brien looks like George VIth!

I wonder what they had done?