History Main / FacialScruff

* There are installments of ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' in which Dagwood gets the idea to grow a beard and Blondie vetoes it. See [[https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/comic-strip-art/jim-raymond-as-chic-young-blondie-daily-comic-strip-original-art-dated-6-10-67-king-features-syndicate-/a/121802-12074.s here]] for example.

* In 2013, an ad campaign for Schick razors in New Zealand showed images of otherwise beautiful women endowed with men's beards, accompanied by the tagline "Would you kiss you?" The message needs no explaining.

-->In the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, the fact of a man's not shaving was regarded by the enlightened majority of the English nation as a proof of unsoundness of intellect. At the present time Mr. Treverton's beard would only have interfered with his reputation for respectability. Seventeen years ago it was accepted as so much additional evidence in support of the old theory that his intellects were deranged.

As a blanket prejudice against facial hair, this is now largely a DiscreditedTrope. In our day, when fewer people are concerned with taboos and superficial conventions than was once the case, a lot of men wear beards in various walks of life, and keeping a neatly trimmed beard will usually not garner ridicule or undue attention from one's surroundings, nor be a significant impediment to one's career advancement. Nonetheless, there are still workplaces, especially those of a military or paramilitary nature, which ban or restrict facial hair. Some styles of beard may attract more negative attention than others; such attitudes will in some cases be cyclical. Take the humble mustache for example. Around the end of the 19th century, it was ubiquitous. Many otherwise clean-shaven men wore one. The popularity of the mustache declined during the 20th century and by the 1950s it would have looked rather odd on a young man. In the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, though, the mustache was quite popular again, and a man might wear one at least in part to emulate alpha-male Creator/BurtReynolds or Series/MagnumPI. In the 21st century, however, wearing a mustache alone has become uncommon. Many people associate them with creepy uncles or [[PornStache 1970s porn stars]], or at least with [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim that decade of much-reviled fashion]] that was the 1980s. Attempts to revive the mustache have been made by hipsters, as well as through the Movember tradition, although mustaches grown as part of Movember often include elements of self-parody.