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Thread #131026 Message #2952389
Posted By: semiotic
26-Jul-10 - 08:37 AM
Thread Name: Why shave under the chin?
Subject: Why shave under the chin?
In Paddy Doyle there is the line "We'll all shave under the chin" and in many early 19thC paintings of sailors they have what I believe is called a Chinstrap beard, clean shaven on the face but not the neck and under the chin. Does anyone have any knowledge of where the fashion came from and why/when a sailor would "shave under the chin"?