While beards faced a downturn in popularity in the eighteenth century, for men who did wear a beard at the time, the chin strap was the choice. The chin strap can range from a thin line to a wide strap, but in any case, the line follows the jawline with the rest of the face rema...
With reference to portraits from the Gallery’s collections and archives, Lucinda explains the Tudor beard tax and why Regency beaus grew whiskers. She also looks at the rise of the beard at the time of the Crimean War, the rules on facial hair in the army, navy and air force, the hip...
largely saved from Nazism by the Red Army, and China today looms larger in the scales of growth and power than the Soviet Union ever did. The crimes and disasters, not to speak of the ironies and reversals, of the communist record ...