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Two Muslim officers sued Newark police 25 years ago for the right to wear a beard. Today, beards and religious garb are far more common in policing.
Women from a university in Madhya Pradesh, India, have taken part in a new protest against men who have beards - because of the chafing caused when they kiss. Wearing beard wigs and holding ...
In the Edo period (1603–1867) of Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate passed orders for Japanese men to shave the pate on the front of their head (the chonmage hairstyle) and shave their beards, facial hair and side whiskers. [20] This was similar to the Qing dynasty queue order imposed by Dorgon making men shave the pates on the front of their ...
Bearded members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during a military ceremony in 1998. Beards are permitted in the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.As a sign of their ideological motivation, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) personnel used to tend to wear full beards, while the Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel are usually trimmed or wear mustaches.
Some association with claims of unhygienic beards (e.g., among homeless men) and fashion preferences of women. That various religious groups treat beards more or less reverently is also a factor, for example in Judaism and in Islam. Similarly, some groups require beards and forbid shaving, which has an effect on that society's norms and ...
The Taliban's morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral acts" in the past ...
In the West in the nineteenth century, most men maintained some facial hair. According to a 1976 study by University of Washington economist Dwight Robinson, who reviewed illustrations in the Illustrated London News, facial hair peaked in the 1880s (90%). The wearing of beards dropped significantly, although mustaches remained popular until the ...
The requirements include women to wear attire that fully covers their bodies and faces and bars men from shaving their beards as well as from skipping prayer and religious fasts.