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From The New Yorker<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The beard has been going in and out of fashion as long as men have been able to trim their whiskers. In 1938,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em> published an article titled \u201cAmerican Hair: Its Rises and Falls<\/a>,\u201d a Depression-era trend piece by Lewis Gannett about the connections of the beard and the mustache to \u201cthe mysterious tides of our history.\u201d Gannett remarks that the New World was discovered and settled almost entirely by men with whiskers\u2026<\/p>\n
But, by the eighteenth century, due in part to the influence of the Puritans, the beard was out and the wig was in. \u201cNot one of the signers of the American Constitution wore a beard or even a mustache,\u201d Gannett notes\u2026<\/p>\n
After its peak in the late nineteenth century, the American beard went into retreat, and remained so until the counterculture movements of the nineteen-sixties and seventies\u2026.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What\u2019s your wisdom on the beard or not to beard question?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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