[yldstrk]

there were those with “sensitive skin” asking for waivers so they wouldn’t be required to shave in the 80s

[Gaffer]

I remember that in the early 70s. Black soldiers getting “folliculitis” and getting a waiver for shaving.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Same in the 1960s when blacks would on purpose scrape their skin with single blade razors (Gillette blue blades or the new Wilkinson stainless single blades) to get allowances for growing a beard.

Those who failed to get the shaving waver would grow a small tuft of whiskers just below the bottom lip.