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A Hard Day’s Night
The Beatles
It’s been a hard day’s night, and I been working like a dog
It’s been a hard day’s night, I should be sleeping like a log
Indeed.
And as all fashions go , they usually follow royals or military leaders. Short hair came in during the French revolution to avoid nits. Prior to that during the Medieval period long hair was favoured as a cushioning effect under steel helmets. Beards returned with a vengeance during the American civil war primarily because it was too damn difficult to maintain parade ground spic and span while your crawling in the mud.
Check out some of these examples :
The Most Epic Beards And Mustaches Of The American Civil War
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-civil-war-beards-and-mustaches-2013-11
In other words- all this fashion crap is garbage.
Utility is paramount.
Scraping your face each day is barbaric.
The modern replacement of a hand blade uses a motor and cutter, electricity and will wear out . What a waste of precious resources and energy. Mis guided foolishness.
The habitual cutting of facial hair so short that only stubble is left. is a strange habit driven by fashion or some perverted competitive vanity.
C’mon man, just be yourself.
Maybe the ‘bar’ needs to be raised.