It also argues, however, that, despite such pejorative attitudes, the fashion was clearly significant enough to spur the emergence of a market for cosmetic products to style and encourage the growth of facial hair.
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'Hairy honours of their chins': whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain.
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The timing of the trend may be significant, occurring at a point of transition between, on the one hand, older, eighteenth-century ideas about polite appearance, with shaving regarded as an expression of manly self-control and authority, and, on the other, gradual moves towards a more physically rugged model.