Let’s Not Split Hairs Over Life With A Beard | Letters

Polly Hudson’s article (Beards whitethorn beryllium dirtier than toilets – but each men should turn one, 3 July) is correct connected nan whole, isolated from successful nan presumption that each men tin do so. When I was a child, my dada spent a two-week vacation not shaving and ended up pinch a 5 o’clock shadow. By coincidence, my uncle grew a bushy wood connected his look during nan aforesaid period. Faced pinch my uncle’s success, my dada promptly shaved his ain effort disconnected and it was ne'er spoken of again.

Years later, I was bewildered by my dad’s really rather dispute guidance erstwhile I successfully gave facial hairsbreadth a spell for nan first time. Then I remembered.
David Gray
Birmingham

My precocious hubby had a beard erstwhile we met successful 1966, and I only saw him clean-shaven successful aged photographs. It was a afloat beard, befitting a geologist who had spent clip successful nan section without a mirror. It was regarded pinch suspicion by Scottish farmers; 1 moreover offered to shear him pinch his sheep. At nan time, beards were associated pinch artists and revolutionaries. My aunts, connected first gathering Jack, summed him up arsenic “very nice, considering he has a beard”.
Susan Treagus
Didsbury, Manchester

Polly Hudson writes: “All men look amended pinch beards and I will dice connected that hill.” Perhaps Keith Flett’s Beard Liberation Front mightiness see awarding her honorary life membership.
Toby Wood
Peterborough

Most, if not all, men person beards. It’s conscionable that nan intelligent ones don’t fuss to scrape hairsbreadth from their look each day. A pointless pastime.
Ronnie Macleod
Aberporth, Ceredigion