William Brand Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'm considering a shave after years and years of wearing a beard. Shaving off the beard and getting a wig. Before this hobby I never could have said that with a straight face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Alexander Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'm considering a shave after years and years of wearing a beard. Shaving off the beard and getting a wig. Before this hobby I never could have said that with a straight face. hmmm...........................Do I smell a revival of the demon barber of PIP Street. William, I would gladly make a donation to any charity of your choosing if you did it at FTPF/PIP. If you're gonna give me a headache, please bring me an aspirin! http://www.forttaylorpyrates.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Brand Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'm considering a shave after years and years of wearing a beard. Shaving off the beard and getting a wig. Before this hobby I never could have said that with a straight face. hmmm...........................Do I smell a revival of the demon barber of PIP Street. William, I would gladly make a donation to any charity of your choosing if you did it at FTPF/PIP. My head is buzzed. It's only a quarter inch long now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Alexander Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 The beard, William, the beard. I will pay money if you shave it off at PIP. Considering it's your face, perhaps Maeve would do the honors. If you're gonna give me a headache, please bring me an aspirin! http://www.forttaylorpyrates.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Brand Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I could grow one special for PIP. Should take me about an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Alexander Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 (edited) Agreed. What charity would you like the donation sent to. Edited May 8, 2009 by Haunting Lily If you're gonna give me a headache, please bring me an aspirin! http://www.forttaylorpyrates.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Brand Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 The Poor William Fund. I'll use it to take some troubled old pirate to PIP. It's like Make a Wish for middle-aged re-enactors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'm considering a shave after years and years of wearing a beard. Shaving off the beard and getting a wig. Before this hobby I never could have said that with a straight face. You have my utmost admiration... Uhoh... gotta run! My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Alexander Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 That works for me. If you're gonna give me a headache, please bring me an aspirin! http://www.forttaylorpyrates.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Roberts Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'm considering a shave after years and years of wearing a beard. Shaving off the beard and getting a wig. Before this hobby I never could have said that with a straight face. Weren't you clean for PiP '07? Dang, now I have to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Roberts Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Ok I guess I never noticed before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Pyrat Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Brought this up with the historian at the fort today relative to Spanish Florida. He said facial hair, which the natives could not grow, was an indication of Spanish heritage and common in the frontier outpost of Spain as a symbol that you were a Spaniard. Knowing a little about the social structure of modern Mexico, not to mention Albuquerque vs El Paso (Albuquerque sided with the Spanish and still considers themselves Spanish vs Mexician) this seems logical. The Charles Towne Few - We shall sail... The sea will be our empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Brand Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I just shaved it off. I look like my brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theM.A.dDogge Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I just shaved it off. I look like my brother. oh no...its the DREADED "BABY-FACED" pyrate.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Brand Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 And... ...I shaved my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Roberts Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Dude.... pics?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Sterling Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 And......I shaved my head. Good, all the more better for wearing a wig "I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers Crewe of the Archangel http://jcsterlingcptarchang.wix.com/creweofthearchangel# http://creweofthearchangel.wordpress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 "OH... it was the style......" And Everyone followed the style..... Priest, Lawyers, Clergy, and Pyrates...... In the 1950's Everyone (well the men) all had flattop hair cuts.... everyone...... in the 60's everyone had long hair..... OK... the "style" in "period" was to be clean shaven..... but that took some effort..... if you were a Pyrate...an outlaw.... no ladys (other than the ones you paid for) why bother? who are you trying to impress? Shaving is a hustle, so why bother...? "Well... I wanna look nice....." Sure... and who do you want to look nice for?........ I don't think Pyrates grew long beards ... because it was not the fashion... but I also don't think they shaved all the time.... because it was too much effort.... so they would have short scraggly beards that they would shave off when they wanted to "look nice/ impress the ladys" (not that they had to impress the kinda women they got to be with......./ or go into port...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Bo of the WTF co. Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I wasn't gonna do this, but I could not stand to see this go with out some documentation, so... http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/6655055 Check em out. Bo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oderlesseye Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) Fer the Oderlesseye on this eerrr topic ...he decided not to be so PC about his beard and has rather enjoyed his new look as a Pyrate with a full beard and beads.. I have been watching this eerr topic and wieghed the issue between wanting to be Period on this and decided to depart from wot appears to be more conjecture on this topic than anything else though I do agree most more than likely shaved but not every day let alone every one. My having a beard has begun affording me new opportunities such as being in the iphone of the caribbean commercial and possibly in a full length movie that will have a pirate sequence in it.. Huzza! http://www.starchasermovie.com/azeroth_priates.htm Edited May 10, 2009 by oderlesseye http://www.myspace.com/oderlesseyehttp://www.facebook....esseye?ref=nameHangin at Execution dock awaits. May yer Life be a long and joyous adventure in gettin there!As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words: "My treasure to he who can understand." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 i was in the navy when sailors where allowed to have beards. zomwalt's navy. if you have ever "been" to SEA and have felt the wind whip through your beard you wouldn't even be wondering about this. think of your self up in the tops, one hand for the ship the other for you. the wind whipping through your beard, what better weather gauge could there be. i still wear my beard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionntan Murtaugh Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 I have never been able to grow a beard of any worth myself so clean shaven is just fine with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Tiny Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Havin' spent time away from the "nicities of civilization", a beard is just there because it grew. And once ye has it, shavin' be a quick and easy disguise. Evil Tiny I'm not really evil...oh wait...yes I am! Discipline is on the severe side of harsh, and I likes it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theM.A.dDogge Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastie04 Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 I read somewhere (source eludes me for the moment) that sailors in the British Navy generally shaved twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays during the Napoleonic era. Of course, the larger ships could have some people with experience as barbers, or at least a surgeon/cook with experience sharpening knives. I know this is slightly out of period, but I figured applicable nonetheless. Coastie She was bigger and faster when under full sail With a gale on the beam and the seas o'er the rail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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