Movember – Beard Facts From Around The World...

Movember – Beard Facts From Around The World

Yes, its that time of year again when every clean shaven man suddenly releases their inner hipster, grizzly self and let's it all go…close, fuzzy, sculptured – anything goes and no one laughs as they strut down the street or receives a tickly kiss as it's all in good taste, good humour as they go about raising awareness and funds for prostrate cancer. We applaud you all, really… us Brits love public humiliation for a good cause.

But lets play 'Did You Know' – 10 beardy facts to get you into the Movember mood?

1. Movember started in America

Yes, we have the USA to thank for the hairy month of Movember, dating back to the mid-to-late 19th century when men grew beards in November to show that they were old enough to vote. (November was their voting month; in case you were wandering.)

These so-called “virgin voters” or “twenty-onesters” (so called for the voting age at the time, which was 21) would grow facial hair - or “facial foliage” as one Chicago newspaper put it in 1893 - to prove they were adults and not “beardless boys”. Thank you America.

2. 'Pogonotrophy' is the Art of Cultivating Facial Hair

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Movember – Beard Facts From Around The World...

Published on Nov 4, 2016

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Movember – Beard Facts From Around The World Yes, its that time of year again when every clean shaven man suddenly releases their inner hipster, grizzly self and let's it all go…close, fuzzy, sculptured – anything goes and no one laughs as they strut down the street or receives a tickly kiss as it's all in good taste, good humour as they go about raising awareness and funds for prostrate cancer. We applaud you all, really… us Brits love public humiliation for a good cause. But lets play 'Did You Know' – 10 beardy facts to get you into the Movember mood? 1. Movember started in America Yes, we have the USA to thank for the hairy month of Movember, dating back to the mid-to-late 19th century when men grew beards in November to show that they were old enough to vote. (November was their voting month; in case you were wandering.) These so-called “virgin voters” or “twenty-onesters” (so called for the voting age at the time, which was 21) would grow facial hair - or...