All these hipsters, tiny of beard and large of spectacle?
Some of the most successful man-children include Lee Brennan from 911, Kian Egan from Westlife, Take That's Mark Owen, Scott Robinson from 5ive, Aston Merrygold from JLS (despite his tiny chin beard), Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter and Nathan Sykes from the Wanted, who is allegedly an actual escaped 11-year-old.
They pee in alleys, scratch their crotch constantly, and cover every available surface in your life with tiny bits of beard hair, toenail clippings, wet towels, and tobacco.
To many, nu-metal was the worst thing since Tommy Lee's tiny chin strip "beard", providing a wholly undesirable stopgap between grunge and garage rock, and fodder for Fast & Furious soundtracks from then until whenever Vin Diesel packs in the explosions for a career on the stage.
The high forehead, sensuous lips and mustache are here too, but only a tiny wisp of a beard.
The content of these images is astonishingly tactile, revealing such things as hairs on ears, beard stubble, tiny facial blemishes, and the grain of fabric; the physical intimacy that the architect conjures in his recollection of his parents and his brothers is poignant, almost painful.
I have seen a few FB statuses bemoaning the sudden preponderance of 'enormous beards and tiny shorts'.
Such a worldview dovetails with my own, and not only because it injects into the proceedings the descriptor "Edwardian," a word rich with the aroma of neatly manicured beards and tiny dill-flecked sandwiches.
