Boys shaving style ↝ Beard styles

When Did People Start Shaving Their Facial Hair?

Welcome to Questions Bros Ask, a place where we answer the questions you didn’t know you needed to know the answer to. Today, we’re channeling our inner Seinfeld and asking a very important question: What’s the deal with shaving? I’ve always said that moving to Brooklyn is the closest thing I’ll ever get to knowing what Tim Allen went through after he murdered Kris Kringle in cold blood in The Santa Clause. When I first came to the borough, I had no intention of becoming one of those people but then I woke up one morning and realized I had a kitchen stocked with kale and quinoa, a wardrobe filled with beanies and flannel shirts, and a beard that had seemingly sprouted...

RELATIONSHIPS; Do Beards Make a Statement? - The New York Times

October 5, 1987, Page 00016 The New York Times Archives IT came as a surprise; it usually does. One minute he stood there, in the prime of beard, with a mustache, too. The next minute, not even an upper-lip hair was left standing. ''Men in this country are judged less on their appearance than women are,'' said Ann Weber, a social psychologist and an associate professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. ''That is why men are thought to owe no one an explanation for changing their appearance, while women are thought to owe everyone an explanation.'' Men are particularly silent on the subject of beards. ''For men, shaving off a beard is one of the few self-...