“Forget biker chic or even mixologist chic. For beard purists, Mr. Carney’s adoption of the whiskered look marked an inevitable mainstreaming of a look that defined a subculture. To the Brooklyn set, it’s an echo of that post-’60s moment when longhair migrated from the muddy fields of Woodstock to crew-cut turf like country music and the National Football League. To the culture at large, the whiskered chin suddenly looks as divorced from its rebel origins as the Jolly Roger flag on a Pittsburgh Pirates beer koozie.”

– http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/fashion/the-brooklyn-beard-goes-mainstream.html?ref=todayspaper