Reply To: shaving during Chol Hamoed

bubka- Just because someone is following halachah doesn’t mean that they can’t look like a slob. An aveil looks like a slob even though he is following halachah. 30 days without shaving makes one look like a slob. In addition, 6 days without shaving makes men look like slobs. Just because one is following halachah doesn’t change that reality. Most men (who don’t have beards) would not go to work with that messy stubble. Most of those same men wouldn’t enter Shabbos with that messy stubble. We aren’t supposed to shave during Chol HaMoed so people do not enter the first days with that messy stubble. So we enter the last days with that messy stubble making us look like slobs. Following halachah may be the right thing to do, but that doesn’t change the fact that 6 days without shaving is a slobby and messy look.