Elijah, 25, has always preferred to be clean shaven. “I only liked the way my face looked for the first three hours a day because I didn’t like my five o’clock shadow,” he says. Every morning, he ...

More and more men seem to be putting down the razor and letting their whiskers grow. Our critic examines the history of the trend and what it might mean. By Vanessa Friedman These days, between the ...