INTERESTING INSIGHTS INTO THE HISTORY OF BEARDS

SPARTANS SAW A SHAVED FACE AS A SIGN

OF DISHONOUR.

IN FACT, THEY WOULD OFTEN PARTIALLY SHAVE

THE FACE OF COWARDS, AS COWARDICE

WAS A CRIME IN SPARTAN SOCIETY

ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS THE FIRST MAN TO

MAKE SHAVING POPULAR

HE ORDERED ALL HIS SOLDIERS TO CUT THEIR

BEARDS SO THAT THE ENEMY COULD NOT

GRAB THEM IN BATTLE

THE FIRST RECORDED MOUSTACHE WAS A

PERSIAN HORSEMAN PAINTED ON FELT

THAT DATES BACK TO 300 BC.

SIDEBURNS WERE NAMED AFTER THE CIVIL

WAR GENERAL AMBROSE BURNSIDE

WHILE SIDEBURNS WERE POPULAR IN 19TH

CENTURY EUROPE, THEY DECLINED IN THE

20TH CENTURY

SOME ALLEGE THAT THEIR DECLINE WAS DUE

TO THE RISE OF GAS MASKS IN WARFARE

MADE POPULAR BY CHARLIE CHAPLAIN, THE

TOOTHBRUSH WAS RENDERED UNWEARABLE

BY ADOLF HITLER