Disney is relaxing the guidelines on the “Disney Look” for Cast Members

[BasiltheBatLord]

More continued erosion of what makes Disneyland great. Breaking prohibition was just the beginning.

 

[DanielBB8]

Will you be able to dress as your preferred gender?

 

[Simba’s Mom]

I want the employees to be allowed to wear full, bushy beards in frontierland and handlebar mustaches on Main Street. Immersion!

I think that would be a great idea! Also, what about Frontierland?

 

[Ismael Flores]

I'm confused. This is a change? Almost all of the CM's you see with facial hair are sporting full beards that are scraggly and poorly groomed and badly maintained.

I have also noticed the lack of care for how they wear their costumes. Overly long pants that drag on the floor and shirts badly tucked in. There seems no pride in how some CM's look anymore

 

[Rich T]

To be fair, you can just shave before you go to work. Like most men have done for centuries.

Not everyone was designed to have a thick, full beard. So shave.

Not everyone was designed to have a Zeus-like body. So keep your shirt on.

It's better to shave and look normal than be lazy and grow a thin, patchy, bad beard.

My beard ain't the greatest, but I have a right to proudly display it in all its gy Rogers glory. Sorry if I offend you if we ever meet in public. (Confession: I shave it most of the time and look enviously upon the Yukon Cornelius types of the world.)

That said, if I were employed as a CM at DL I would either shave every morning (because of my beard type) or go out and buy the most realistic handlebar mustache $50 can buy.

There's no such thing as "NORMAL." You know what I mean. And I play a lot of Nintendo because the games are imaginative, delightful and as much fun as an E-ticket ride.

AND (falling off my soapbox) a CM's personality means much more than a patchy beard or a paunch.

(EDIT)
I can't believe my reference to a character from Scooby Doo got bleeped.)

 

[Phroobar]

I have seen guests wearing clothes that they shouldn't wear in public.

We should start a People of Disneyland thread similar to the results you get from typing people of walmart into google.

 

[Rich T]

Facial hair on men is ape-like. The current trend for overgrown beards is disgusting. I guess enough time has passed that the Taliban look is now in.

Having two arms and two legs is ape-like, too. Beards are normal. Shaving is the artificial, society-imposed, nature-offending act. Lots of men look great with huge beards and I (*sob*) am definitely not one of them.

On a weird side note, did you know some men actually get hair transplants from the back of their heads to their face? I'd love to be able to grow a Santa Claus beard, but I ain't going *that* far.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I have also noticed the lack of care for how they wear their costumes. Overly long pants that drag on the floor and shirts badly tucked in. There seems no pride in how some CM's look anymore

That's partly costuming. Disney clothes tend to fit like crap and it can be extremely difficult to find a size that works for you. If they don't have your size, you're out of luck and have to size up, down or wear the opposite sex.

 

[Phroobar]

 

[Ismael Flores]

TO BE FAIR, NOT MUCH ONE CAN DO ABOUT A PATCHY BEARD IF THAT IS HOW YOUR FACIAL HAIR GROWS.

thats a sign that the person shouldn't grow a beard

 

[smooch]

This whole thread hurts my soy boy inability to grow a beard.

 

[Phroobar]

This whole thread hurts my soy boy inability to grow a beard.

Don't worry. Give yourself about 30 years and you will have hair growing out of your ears.

 

[TROR]

This whole thread hurts my soy boy inability to grow a beard.

Clean shaven is ideal

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I'm not in the prime of my life or virile but I still look better than that guy. And I look like crap.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

My mom thinks i'm a pretty man.

 

[Rich T]

Clean shaven is ideal

If you're a character in DAVEY and GOLIATH!

I prefer a Wonderful World of Color and the freedom to grow facial hair. As demonstrated by Walt Disney.

 

[Rich T]

Look at the bushy 'stache on that Mine Train engineer! What a rebel!

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Some guys can pull off facial hair, like Commander Riker. Others, like Leonardo DiCaprio, simply can not. The day Leo stopped shaving that crap on his face, a part of me died.

 

[Rich T]

Some guys can pull off facial hair, like Commander Riker.

Harry Mudd and Old Scotty did it better.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

thats a sign that the person shouldn't grow a beard

But thats not for you to say.