| # | Author | Message |
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| Devmonium
Thu 2/9/2012 10:01a | Okay, I know Disney just decided that Castmembers can have well maintained, short beards, etc...and that it was decided in 2000 to allow cast members to have a mustache.
When I was watching "People & Places Disneyland U.S.A." last night there is a scene like you are riding the Jungle Cruise. Very clearly you can see the skipper with a mustache...how is this possible???????
The film was made in I believe 1956...and its my understanding that previous to 2000 mustaches were not allowed...How did this mustached skipper sneak through??? |
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| hbquikcomjamesl
Fri 2/10/2012 11:26a | Perhaps the facial hair rule didn't come in until the 1960s? There weren't a lot of hippies (and therefore not a lot of bad connotations about facial hair) until then. |
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| dl1956
Fri 2/10/2012 2:02p | Maybe it was Walt incognito. :P |
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| MoondoggieCA
Sat 3/10/2012 11:43p | I know it's still relatively new to the park, but I'm having a hard time getting used to it.
Obviously facial hair has nothing to do with the effectiveness of a CM, and some of the best looking men out there have them.
I still think the tradition of the clean shaven face for men, limited make-up for women, limited jewelry across the board, etc. is what set Disneyland apart.
I know that some might consider that clean-shaven look outdated and old-fashioned now, and many will not agree with my feeling about facial hair at the park.
IMO though, Disneyland is unique in so many ways, and this was just one of those areas that made it a stand out.
I go to the park now, and I don't really see any rhyme or reason to the facial hair either. I had read somewhere that it was going to be monitored.
From what I've seen in just the last few weeks though is everything from full beard, to scruffy, to peach fuzz, to shadow, to goatees....you name it.
I even find myself wondering if it has become "the thing to do" for some of those male CMs. I wonder how many of them really like it, and how many of them are just doing it because they can.
I know change is what it is, and maybe I will get used to it, but being a former Attractions CM for 10+ years at the park though, I'm not sure I ever will.
Disneyland was just so unique in its appearance guidelines. Guidelines I gladly stuck by for over a decade because I knew that's what Disneyland was.
Seeing beards and facial hair of every sort now will be something that I just don't dig. |
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| EmmaJayne
Sat 3/10/2012 11:51p | ^^ I don't mind a neatly maintained bit of facial hair on seem men, bit on many it can look scruffy..
My other half is in the police force and they are currently allowed to sport a short beard or moustache as long as it it well groomed and neat. It must be an established moustache etc so they are not allowed to turn up to work with 'bum fluff' or 2 days worth of regrowth. I would have assumes Disney would have put similar policies in place..
It's like McDonalds here, the staff used to be very well presented but now I see sleeve tattoos, piercings, unruly hair, make up pancaked onto faces, visible bra straps and so on, I know in theory none of these should affect the service they provide but that's seemingly gone down hill too. I hope that doesn't happen at DL but it sounds like they do need someone checking up on the facial hair situation! |
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| ShivaThDestroyer
Sun 3/11/2012 1:02a | EmmaJayne, I don't know if this is 100 gospel but it was my understanding that male CM's were allowed to have mustaches until 1957, when Walt banned them. After that it was no longer allowed except for those CM's who were "grandfathered" in by having a mustache prior...but if they ever shaved it off, they were not allowed to regrow it. |
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| disneylandfan8
Sun 3/11/2012 6:48p | Did I just see Shiva? :-0 |
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| disneyfreaksk
Mon 3/12/2012 3:43p | Facial hair is scary. Not for Disney parks. Just saying. |
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| hbquikcomjamesl
Mon 3/12/2012 4:32p | Here's my beard.
Ain't it weird?
Don't be skeered;
's just a beard.
--
George Carlin, from "The Hair Piece." |
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| Witches of Morva
Mon 3/12/2012 4:41p | ORDDU: There's nothing more alluring to a witch than a handsome man with a mustache--a mustache she can wrap around her little finger...a mustache she can rub her cheeks up against...a mustache she can tease with her lips and her teeth--
ORGOCH: --So just how long did ya plan ta drag this thing out, tramp? Er does ya got a death wish fer makin' a dang fool outta yerself in front a ev'rybody that comes ta this here site????
ORDDU: You have a bit of a mustache, yourself, don't you little sister? Come closer so I can see just how much uglier it makes you look...
(Sounds of slaps and snaps followed by a deadly calm...) |
