Let’s not split hairs over life with a beard | Men’s facial hair

Polly Hudson’s article (Beards could also be dirtier than bathrooms – however all males ought to develop one, 3 July) is right on the entire, besides within the assumption that each one males can achieve this. Once I was a baby, my dad spent a two-week vacation not shaving and ended up with a 5 o’clock shadow. By coincidence, my uncle grew a bushy forest on his face throughout the identical interval. Confronted with my uncle’s success, my dad promptly shaved his personal try off and it was by no means spoken of once more.Years later, I used to be bewildered by my dad’s actually fairly hostile response after I efficiently gave facial hair a go for the primary time. Then I remembered.David GrayBirmingham My late husband had a beard once we met in 1966, and I solely noticed him clean-shaven in previous pictures. It was a full beard, befitting a geologist who had frolicked within the subject with out a mirror. It was regarded with suspicion by Scottish farmers; one even supplied to shear him together with his sheep. On the time, beards have been related to artists and revolutionaries. My aunts, on first assembly Jack, summed him up as “very good, contemplating he has a beard”. Susan TreagusDidsbury, Manchester Polly Hudson writes: “All males look higher with beards and I’ll die on that hill.” Maybe Keith Flett’s Beard Liberation Entrance would possibly take into account awarding her honorary life membership. Toby WoodPeterborough Most, if not all, males have beards. It’s simply that the clever ones don’t trouble to scrape hair from their face on daily basis. A pointless pastime.Ronnie MacleodAberporth, Ceredigion Have an opinion on something you’ve learn within the Guardian immediately? Please electronic mail us your letter and it is going to be thought-about for publication in our letters part.