Originally Posted By FerretAfros I just read in Kevin Yee's article on the other site that the official rule is the beards are to be trimmed to 1/4". I've never tried growing a full beard, but it's gotten pretty close to 1/4" before, and it really doesn't look like anything that should be on display to the theme-park-going public. I don't know about the rest of you guys out there, but beards always seem like a very case-by-case basis, and that rule seems a little strict for many cases. For me, I would guess that it would need to be closer to 1/2" before it looks like anything more than waking up late and rushing to work. Then again, I don't really think that anybody will actually measure your beard (great mental image there), so I don't know how much of a problem it will be. >>I know of several imagineers that will be heaving a sigh of relief now the company approves of "beards".<< I've noticed in many recent online videos that a lot of Imagineers are sporting facial hair, onstage in the parks with their nametags on ('in costume'). And from my understanding of the general crowd over at WDI, there's really no need for the other kind of beard...
Originally Posted By oc_dean In the case of Frontierland, Adventureland, and New Orleans Square (even Critter Country) ... a beard adds an additional "thematic" layer to the land. HOWEVER .... There are some lands that look better with a very clean-cut image: Tomorrowland Main Street USA Fantasyland And I would prefer CMs who work in those lands ... to keep up with a more clean-cut image. What this is going to do though .. is it's going to open up an entire Pandora's Box! Because there will be castmembers who will let their beards go just a little too long. It only takes a few days of "forgetting" to trim it ... to look out of place. And is there going to be a set of "Beard Police" who will be measuring every male CM coming through the gate? There's too much wiggle-room/gray area ... where beards will end up just a little too long. I think the simple answer .. Is ... Avoid the "gray area" complications that WILL end up happening ... And just maintain the same rule that has been working for 57 years! It's not broke. So don't fix it!
Originally Posted By HMButler79 ""Sometimes I think that Disneyland is still stuck in Norman Rockwell's America."" And this is a bad thing????? Ummmm....
Originally Posted By HMButler79 ""And is there going to be a set of "Beard Police" who will be measuring every male CM coming through the gate?"" No cause that just means the managers (at least at WDW) would have to WORK.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Does this new amendment to the dress code mention anything about how close females are to keep their beards trimmed?
Originally Posted By DBitz2 >>HOWEVER .... There are some lands that look better with a very clean-cut image: Tomorrowland Main Street USA Fantasyland<< I don't think beards would be out of place on Main Street. Many men in Turn of the Century America had mustaches and/or beards.
Originally Posted By tashajilek I think CM's should grow beards as long as they can and then they could have little animatronic birds or disney characters popping out! It could be a totally new cool Disney thing.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo <<And this is a bad thing?????>> I never said it was bad. However, stylistically, what constitutes a "clean cut" person has changed since then, and it appears Disney is trying to reflect that---which I appreciate. I suppose it's akin to (actually, more of a caricature of) 18th century styles. It wasn't bad per se, but if I were to wear a white wig and powder my face as polite societies once did, I might be asked update my wardrob . :-D
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "What this is going to do though .. is it's going to open up an entire Pandora's Box!" Oh noes! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!
Originally Posted By danyoung >And is there going to be a set of "Beard Police" who will be measuring every male CM coming through the gate?< Nope - just the same folks who currently tell CMs that their hair is too long or their jewelry is too garish. It will always be something of a judgement thing.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle Personally don't like beards (no offence, men with beards!) but I really don't think I'd even particularly notice if I saw a CM with one, as long as it didn't look untidy. If they started allowing them to wear those gross stretcher earrings, then I'd start complaining!!
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I'm really dreading 40 -50 years from now when those stretchy ear people are elderly.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 And there will be a whole generation of old men in nursing homes with sagging bicep tatoos.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer And they'll be saying that they had senile dementia before it was cool.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I agree with the basic sentiment, as long as its a neatly trimmed beard that's fine. I mean I wouldn't expect anyone CM to look like Alan from the Hangover. But Adventureland/Frontierland, facial was rampart those days, with the men too. And if Main Street represents turn of century America, then I'd say handlebar mustaches are appropriate like in that Heineken ad.
Originally Posted By danyoung I've actually been thinking a lot about the 1/4" part of this standard. If they mean that each individual beard hair has to be 1/4" or shorter, well, that's a pretty scruffy beard. But if the whole beard, when properly brushed down, sticks out from the face 1/4", then I can see that working.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Nope - just the same folks who currently tell CMs that their hair is too long or their jewelry is too garish. It will always be something of a judgement thing." So this isn't a Pandora's Box? I've already popped the popcorn and was anxiously awaiting the drama. "I've actually been thinking a lot about the 1/4" part of this standard." Why?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I have had a beard for 33 years. It has never been more than 1/4 inch because that is what I like and what my trimmer is set at. I have never been "scruffy".
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl "Lenin had a beard. Gabby Hayes had whiskers. Monty Woolley had whiskers." "See my beard! Ain't it weird? Don't be skeered; 's just a beard." -- George Carlin (who had a beard)
