Stubble in mind: what growing a 'crisis beard' represents

From Beto O’Rourke and Justin Trudeau to Sylvester Stallone and David Letterman, sprouting whiskers at a certain age is loaded with symbolism

When is a beard just a beard – and when is it a “crisis beard”? US website Vox coined the phrase to define the moment when a man of a certain age has a moment of existential crisis, downs tools and ditches the razor.

First, there was Beto O’Rourke who, days before leaving the Democratic presidential primary, stopped shaving, went on to sculpt his growth into a Craig David-style shape before finally embracing full beardness

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