Why do people adopt the custom of shaving their beards since the Enlightenment Era ?
>tfw no magnificent beard.
>>881228
People stop wanting to look "old" prefering to look "young".
T. Stefan Zweig
It comes and goes eith the centuries. Beards were unfashionable in the 1700s, fashionable in the 1800s, unfashionable ine 1900s, and back in fashion now.
Though of course everyone can shave but not everyone can grow a good beard.
>tfw Arab
>tfw grow facial hair fast
>tfw high testosterone
Feels good to be semitic.
If I try to grow a beard it looks really scraggly so I just shave everyday to avoid looking like a teenager.
>>881228
WWI
you needed to be clean-shaven for a gas mask to get a proper seal
>>881331
A shame you have shit tier beard genetics.
>>881348
Then how did gas masks for dogs and horses work? Checkmate.
>>881348
reddit fact if i ever heard one
>>881347
and in the process you look like a teenager
Have a beard makes your face look better.
>>881367
Not that guy, but I've been in military and it is advantageous to be clean shaven -- because the mask might not be tight. I actually had saved up some beard the second time I was teargased and could feel my lungs burn. It was not tight enough.
>since the Enlightenment Era
lol what kind of random nonsense is that?
Romans shaved, then during the Dark Ages Western barbarians had beards, then during the Middle Ages they shaved again, and they kept shaving throughout the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern Era until the latter half of 19th century, when beards came back in fashion, only to go out of fashion again in the 20th.
>>881331
Too bad your beard looks like pubes.
>>881228
m8 people have been shaving since the stone age.
>>881444
Well ok not all Romans shaved, beards were briefly in fashion during the 2nd century.
Basically it only happened a few times during short periods.
>tfw bear growth started at 14
>evenly coloured
>grows evenly
>the same colour as hair (light brown)
feels great desu.
>>881401
For fat men beard is always the best option, because it hides double chins, really improving their look.
>>881444
>Then, during the Middle Ages they shaved again, and they kept shaving throughout the Renaissance,
No, they only began to shave beard during the Enlightenment. Simply look at portraits of those monarchs or celebrities in previous eras like Henry VII, Da Vinci, Charles V, Shakespeare or Michelangelo...etc... almost all of them have beards.
>>881468
None of those are medieval though...
>>881468
Pretty sure Henry VII was beardless VIII was the fat one.
>>881468
>>881482
>>881475
>>881498
Englishmen were barely Christians anyways.
>>881500
>>881367
desk jockey detected. i've worked in clearing out abandoned buildings where masks were required and it's just a fact that you can't have full facial hair for that.
>>881504
Anyways I got another 100 or so pictures of late medieval folks and the majority is clean shaven. Being clean shaven was definitely the norm then.
tfw I look like a little boy without a beard
>>881475
>>881519
Eternal Anglo
I believe it was a bishop or a pope who told Edward I to shave or not get his marriage/marriage annulment.
>>881468
>first guy on your list
Pic related.
Rest isn't even medieval. Everyone was shaved during the Middle Ages, but I guess there was another short beard fashion in the 16th century.
>>881367
Idea the major of my ccf who had served in Ireland during the troubles saw as true
>>881370
What the fuck are you talking about? Not shaving would make him look like a teen that doesn't know how. Sorry but your upper lip smudge doesn't make you look manly.
so who had history's greatest beard /his/?
>>882154
Guan Yu
sup senpai
>>882924
marx' beard also p fantastic
>>881228
The ubiquity of modern plumbing and cheap razors.
In the olden times nobody wanted to be bothered to boil water every day before breakfast just so they could shave, or go out and hire the service's of some dago cutthroat with a razor, so they let their hair grow out to save on hassle.
Now steaming hot water is available at the twist of a knob and cheap razors come twenty to a bag for one dollar so people have no excuse not to shave.
>>881319
>and back in fashion now.
I don't know whats worse
The Undercut or the Lumbersexual Look
>>881364
not very well
