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BEARDS THROUGH TIME Mo Bro s

Beards and moustaches have come in and out of fashion numerous times over the years. One minute they are enjoying widespread popularity and the next they have been shot down with relative disfavour. Today you only have to walk down the street to realise that beards have come back with a bang and a half! Once associated with the unkempt and lazy beards are now the ultimate accessory for the most masculine of men; a display of male virility, an expression of religious or social conformity and as a symbol of rebellion! It’s time to throw away your razors as we take you on a journey of beards through time.. From around 1700, hair completely disappeared from men’s faces all across Europe. Facial...

The beard trend will never die, experts say - National,

The beard trend will never die, experts say Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are loaded with pictures of people going to exotic places, looking like they are about to be on the cover of Vogue, and otherwise living a fairy-tale existence. A question has been on the minds of trend followers and barbershop patrons for years: have we reached peak beard yet? This grooming craze kicked off about a decade ago but the past few years have been huge for lumbersexuals. But as the hipster look went mainstream, people started predicting that facial hair would fade as fast as their hairlines. But it hasn’t. And it won’t, at least not entirely, according to those on the frontlines. In partnership with Wahl...

Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness, Behavioral Ecology, Oxford Academic

Abstract The beard is a strikingly sexually dimorphic androgen-dependent secondary sexual trait in humans. Darwin posited that beards evolved in human ancestors via female choice as a highly attractive masculine adornment. Others have since proposed that beards evolved as a signal of male status and dominance. Here, we show that women from two very different ethnic groups, Europeans from New Zealand and Polynesians from Samoa, do not rate bearded male faces as more attractive than clean-shaven faces. Women and men from both cultures judge bearded faces to be older and ascribe them higher social status than the same men when clean-shaven. Images of bearded men displaying an aggressive facial...

Facial Hair, Dr Alun Withey

I’m showing my age now, but watch the 1981 Adam and the Ants promo video for ‘Stand and Deliver’ and, during a few scenes showing the ‘Dandy Highwaymen’ amongst a group of outlandishly-dressed Georgians, look closely and you may notice a strange figure in the background…a man wearing a powdered period wig…and a beard. A wig and a beard. Together. On one man. It’s a look that should never be seen on any man. And, indeed, it was likely not a combination worn by any self-respecting polite Georgian gentleman. As the wig grew in popularity, the beard dramatically declined. Initially there had been objections to the wig on religious grounds. In the seventeenth century, Puritan objections to the...