Jehovah's Witnesses Have never been against men wearing beards, it only depends on what part of the world you live, if you live in wester world, where waering of beards in the past was found as hippie culture, you wold not want to be seen as a hippie, but now wearring of beards is no longer seen as hippie, so if a man wears beard, he is not seen as a hippie. In Islamic countries, beard is seen as good, so if you live there, you are more than welcome to wear beards. Just make it clean, don't wear a tatered beard. Just do not do anything that makes you stand out. In the country were I live right now. the people here saw wearing of African fashion as casual clothing, largely because they do not have traditional wears in their culture, so even going to the Kingdom hall with Kaftan was frowned up on, because the culture of the people in this country (Gabon) stipulated at the time that traditional wears were for parties, weddings and other get together stuffs not for official events. I remeber my Kaftan I sewd in Nigeria that I took to Gabon, I wore it one sunday, and I stood out as a sore thumb , not even at the hall but on the street, the people were looking at me like they were looking at a ghost. So In their minds, they said, oh see this one dey go church with trad. I felt so bad, because I spent quite a bit on that cloth. Years later when they began watching Nollywood (in french) movies a lot, they began to identify with their favourite actors and actresses, began to dress like them, and in nollywood movies, they wear their trads to offices, the Gabonese too began wearing trads to offices. So mentality changed over time. People now wear trads like tomorrow does not exist, even Isi agu. Trads are no longer seen as casual wears. So in a nutshell, it depends of cultural makeup of a given area. There was never a specific law that says male Jehovah's Witnesses should not wear a beard. Haters are will find a way to try to paint JWs in a bad light, and we welcome it.

They've never been against it, but some people think it's a law amongst the witnesses, nice writeup..