wasn't facial hair rare until the middle of the 1800s?
if you look at many paintings from that time (britain etc) i can't see much facial hair...
wasn't facial hair rare until the middle of the 1800s?
if you look at many paintings from that time (britain etc) i can't see much facial hair...
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yeah people before 1750 didnt have facial hair at all. humans mutated after 1750 to get it
count on Ottoman facial hair
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Hmmm, haven't we been around here before?
The British armed forces were clean shaven until our dear foreign monarchs (Victoria and Albert) forced facial fuzz on us. Trully the long road to end of Empire started with those two sanctimonious buffoons.
The operative word above is "clean".
British, and any other other clean shaven troops (Dutch?), should get a significant morale boost simply for the comedy factor of gazzing at their facially befuzzed enemies. Not a question of "Wait till you see the whites of their eyes" and more one of "wait till you see their Chewbacca impressions"
If you want a slightly more wry look at facial hair and the British Empire go here.
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what about BEFORE victoria? the moustaches and facial hair is still present (game ends 1800( realism?
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I know that facial hair is a subject of fun for a lot of us here in the forum, because beards and moustaches can, frankly, look pretty silly, and its often put in the same box as complaints like "they haven't put the right regimental number stamps on the coat buttons; everyone boycott the game!!!"....
...But, it is for me an issue that while small, does manage to throw off the "look" of a soldier out of all proportion with its apparent importance. 18th Century British soldiers simply do not look right with moustaches; I can't think of an example of one depicted. I'm not saying its completely impossible, but I haven't seen it, apart from perhaps some infantry fighting in North America, but the witness thought it very unusual which is why he noted it in the first place.
It works the other way around too; Prussian Hussars don't look right without their moustaches (except perhaps some officers and trumpeters). Facial hair was just as much a part of a soldier's uniform as much as his coat, and in most instances it was strictly regulated, perhaps more so than in other periods.
Think of it in terms of American GIs hitting Omaha Beach in 1944, or First Century Roman Legionaries, all with full beards, and you get a better picture of how incongruous it can look.
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-Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937)
Under the patronage of Nihil. So there.
I have a nice beard and it's cool and sexy, I don't care what anyone sais!
I can imagine that troops on long campaigns without comfort could grow a faint beard really fast. But woodsmen beards are a bit exagerated aswel (and ugly).
Though I have no idea of the historical value of facial hair really O.o.
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