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the invention of the safety razor made it so much easier to shave without going to a barber shop
having a clean shaven head used to be unpopular , now it's the norm , even with LE
back in the 70's they would have called you "Kojack" or Mr Clean or offered to shine your head for a dollar , but now lots of people have a shaved head.
Let's put it this way...if a guy is growing a brillo pad for a beard, or it looks like a bird could make a nest in it, or it looks like its collecting crumbs...I wouldn't be interested. LOL
Same here! I don't mind a weeks worth of stubble but much longer than that it looks like un manscaped pubes. No thank you to both. So glad I live in a military city.
I've been taking a history class and noticed that many great scientists/political figures in the past had long beards (Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx). Today, having such long facial hair would make most people think that you're unkempt or even homeless. What brought about the shift in perception?
You clearly haven't been paying attention. The disgusting long beards have been fashionable for about 5 years now.
Long facial hair IS fashionable in certain circles. If you're a Harley biker in a club, long beards are common.
And I'm no expert on the matter, but it seems like a lot of gay men like a TOTALLY smooth body, and then conversely, there's a contingent of gay men who are teddy bears.
It's not just bikers. Many millennials are wearing the Smith brothers beards.
I've been taking a history class and noticed that many great scientists/political figures in the past had long beards (Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx). Today, having such long facial hair would make most people think that you're unkempt or even homeless. What brought about the shift in perception?
That kind of beard seemed to go out of style in the 1920s - 1930s.
Since then, beards have gone in and out of style. Right now In the 1960s - out. 1970s - sort of in. Now? Some facial hair is frequently seen among millennials.
Certain types of men have always sported facial hair. Outdoorsmen, professors, actors, academics, scientists, and psychologists, for example.
I do not expect to see much facial hair in business and politics. At least not in this country, unless it is very, very neat.
I've been taking a history class and noticed that many great scientists/political figures in the past had long beards (Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx). Today, having such long facial hair would make most people think that you're unkempt or even homeless. What brought about the shift in perception?
It had to do with the invention of razors that men could easily use at home.
Late 19th century, I think.
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You know it. Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham was so yummy!
