Stubble: THE male accessory of the Bush era

[Kire]

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Love that scruff
Sunday, February 20, 2005

By BILL ERVOLINO
STAFF WRITER

PETER MONSEES / THE RECORD
arrowFacial fact: Looking rugged and manly generally takes twice as long as looking soft and pretty. Don't even think about it unless you have a second bathroom.

Staring at us from a recent cover of the Italian fashion magazine D is the luminous - yet devilish - Colin Farrell, sporting what appears to be a rumpled old T-shirt, a rumpled old leather jacket, eyebrows creeping across his forehead like two fat furry caterpillars, and the pièce de résistance: a face full of stubble.

The bushy, bad-boy, partied-all-weekend Farrell stubble is not to be confused with the more highly defined, everything's-under-control, ain't-I-da-bomb Usher stubble, or the reassuring, daddy-ish, so-minimal-it's-almost-subliminal George Clooney stubble - which, if you pay attention to such things, doesn't look anything like the cool, aloof, I'm-better-looking-than-you-no-matter-what-I-do-to-my-face Jude Law stubble.

Have we left anyone out? It seems almost redundant to point out that stubble has made a comeback, because it makes a comeback every afternoon around 5:30.

Still, stubble has suddenly emerged as THE male accessory of the Bush era - coincidence? - and it's hard not to notice that you can't buy an album, purchase a DVD or pick up a magazine nowadays without scratching yourself on some hunky celebrity's pernicious facial hair.

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[Placebo]

1. Stubble CAN be sexy...

if done right, which it rarely is. :)

[CubsFan1982]

2. I must be pretty sexy, then.

I haven't shaved in three days, ergo, I am hotness. Worship me.

:P

[Withywindle]

3. Did you see Stephen Colbert's scruff last week?

When he did the piece on Art and the Gates?


OK, it did something for me.

[Bluebear]

4. I don't know how to LOOOOOOOOOOOVE him

"I've tried everything. First shaving my head. Now this. I don't know how to move him."

[pintobean]

5. Have we left anyone out?

Yes, the lazy, fat fortyish guy who has given up.

[coloradodem2005]

6. People could have said the same thing about the 90's (Clinton era).

[Kire]

7. and the '80's

Miami Vice era