The 19th-century beard may have sprouted from a fear of razors and a distaste for black barber shops. But it grew into a symbol that set white American men apart from smooth-faced foreigners as ...

The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns Colin Schultz Like all fashion accessories, beards tend to rise and fall in popularity as social ideals shift. Lumberjack ...

It’s said that the 19th-century beard boom started in Europe. British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War of 1854–56 were allowed to grow beards for the first time. Returning home, the beard was the ...

You might think that beards are popular now, but the mid-19th century was a true golden age for massive facial hair: a time when beards were seen as the ultimate symbols of Victorian manliness and ...

Styles always come back. But who knew the bushy beards of 19th Century presidents would take over Major League Baseball? Styles always come back.

History has perhaps known no greater proponent of the beard than T. S. Gowing. He admired chin whiskers so much that he penned a book on the subject in 1854, entitled The Philosophy of Beards .

According to Oldstone-Moore, the man who proudly sported a beard in the late 19th century was “excited about its moral force, in particular its power to express masculine power and authority ...

For example, in the 19th Century, men of all classes, rural and urban, were adopting beards. Or not, when the 20th Century came. So it's a gender thing rather than a class thing.

In "The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard," the current fascination with old timey facial hair is examined alongside its previous revival in the 19th century. Before the beard’s ...

For everyone with a hirsute family member, a bearded patriarch, a fuzzy metro-sexual, here's a great gift, a not-entirely-serious account of why and when men grow facial hair. It's called "Of ...

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