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Description. Until the late 20th century, the term goatee was used to refer solely to a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin—as on the chin of a goat, hence the term 'goatee'. [1] By the 1990s, the word had become an umbrella term used to refer to any facial hair style incorporating hair on the chin but not the cheeks; [2] there is ...
A full beard that features a goatee, full mustache and horizontal chinstrap with all hairs on the upper cheeks and sideburns removed. [29] Ned Kelly beard. A beard with the length of more than 20 cm. A Ned Kelly beard is a style of facial hair named after 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly.
The Van Dyke beard is named after Anthony van Dyck. A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke, [1] or Van Dyck[2]) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). [3][4] The artist's name is today normally spelt as "van Dyck", though there are many variants, but when the term for the beard ...
The trend in moustaches and full beards carried over from the late-1970s and into the early-1980s but waned as the decade progressed. From the mid to late-1980s, clean-shaven faces with short or no sideburns was the norm. However, the success of Miami Vice did spark a trend in the facial hair style called designer stubble. [citation needed]
Annie Jones toured with P.T. Barnum 's circus in the 19th century. A bearded lady (or bearded woman) is a woman with a naturally occurring beard normally due to the condition known as hirsutism or hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis causes people of either sex to develop excess hair over their entire body (including the face), while hirsutism is ...
John Quincy Adams (1825–1829) was the first U.S. president to have notable facial hair, with long sideburns. [2] But the first major departure from the tradition of clean-shaven chief executives was Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865), [3] [4] [5] who was supposedly (and famously) influenced by a letter received from an eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell, to start growing a beard to improve ...
Soul patches came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, as a style of facial hair common among African-American men, most notably jazz musicians. Frank Zappa is a well-known artist who sported one from the early sixties on. It became popular with beatniks, artists, and those who frequented the jazz scene and moved in literary and artistic circles.
Sideburns. Mathabar Singh Thapa, shown with sideburns of the style worn by Hindu Kshatriya military commanders in the Indian subcontinent. Sideburns, sideboards, [1] or side whiskers are facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to run parallel to or beyond the ears. The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption ...