More on the 'beard' thing for you unenlightened nitwits....
The ban is a fairytale. It only applies to an administration official, capo, or soldier who does not like facial hair and orders his underlings to be clean shaved for the American mafia. The Italian counterpart, it is seen as how Carmela described it.
http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Numb er=622222