Based on portraits I've seen of 18th-century Western Europeans, it seems to me that facial hair was almost never worn by a man of status. Are there any records of reactions to 18th c. Western European men of status breaking this apparently very strict norm?
by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians
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