Daily shaving has become optional during my lifetime

I’ve pretty much always shaved daily. In this thread that I started a while back, there was some good history about how in the first half of the 20th century, American men became more clean-shaven (Taft was the last president with a beard, and in 1944 Tom Dewey was the last major-party presidential candidate to have a mustache).

I was born in the late 50’s, and I recall my parents being very critical of men with any facial hair. Every fast food place I worked at in the 1970’s banned it, and required men to shave daily.

I remember a ca. 1970 commercial where a mildly hip 20ish man is extolling the virtues of an electric razor to his parents. When he mentions that it trims well, the father interrupts him to say, “That’s another thing, you’re the ONLY member of our family ever to have a mustache!”. And the mother corrects him: “Your Aunt Edith had a little one”.