Ukuba ucinga ukuba umzabalazo wamadoda wokususa iinwele yinto yangoku, sikuphathele iindaba. Kukho ubungqina benzululwazi ngezakudala bokuba, kwiLate Stone Age, amadoda achetywe ngelitye lenyengane, i-obsidian, okanye i-clamshell shards, okanye ade asebenzise amaqokobhe afana ne-tweezers. (Hayi.)
Kamva, amadoda azama ukusebenzisa iincakuba zobhedu, ubhedu kunye nentsimbi. Izityebi zisenokuba zazinomchebi wobuqu kubasebenzi, ngoxa thina sonke sasisiya kwindawo yokucheba iinwele. Kwaye, ukususela kumaXesha Aphakathi, usenokuba uye watyelela umchebi weenwele ukuba ufuna utyando, ukopha, okanye nawaphi na amazinyo akhutshiweyo. (Iintaka ezimbini, ilitye elinye.)

Kumaxesha amva nje, amadoda asebenzise incakuba yentsimbi, ekwabizwa ngokuba “ngumqala” kuba… Uyilo lwayo olufana nemela luthetha ukuba kufuneka ilolwe ngelitye lokuhombisa okanye intambo yesikhumba, kwaye ifuna isakhono esibonakalayo (singasathethi ke ngokugqalisela okufana nelaser) ukuze isetyenziswe.

KWAKUTHENI SIQALE KWAKUQALA UKUCHEVA?
Ngenxa yezizathu ezininzi, kuvela. AmaYiputa amandulo ayecheba iindevu neentloko zawo, mhlawumbi ngenxa yobushushu yaye mhlawumbi njengendlela yokuthintela iintwala. Ngoxa kwakugqalwa njengento engafanelekanga ukukhulisa iinwele zobuso, oofaro (kwanabafazi abathile) babeneendevu zobuxoki bexelisa uthixo uOsiris.

Ukutsheva kamva kwamkelwa ngamaGrike ebudeni bolawulo luka-Aleksandire Omkhulu. Lo mkhuba wawukhuthazwa ngokubanzi njengendlela yokuzikhusela kumajoni, ukuthintela utshaba ukuba lubambe iindevu zabo ekulweni ngesandla.

INKCAZO YEFASHION OKANYE IFAUX PAS?
Amadoda abe nobudlelwane benzondo yothando kunye neenwele zobuso ukususela ekuqaleni kwexesha. Ukutyhubela iminyaka, iindevu bezibonwa njengento engafanelekanga, ebukekayo, iyimfuneko yonqulo, uphawu lwamandla kunye nobudoda, ukungcola okuthe ngqo, okanye ingxelo yezopolitiko.

De kube nguAleksandire Omkhulu, amaGrike aMandulo ayecheba iindevu zawo kuphela ngamaxesha okuzila. Kwelinye icala, abafana bamaRoma malunga nowama-300 BC babenetheko “lokucheba kuqala” lokubhiyozela ubudala babo obuzayo, kwaye bakhulisa iindevu zabo kuphela ngelixa bezilile.

Malunga nexesha likaJulius Caesar, amadoda aseRoma amxelisa ngokuncothula iindevu zawo, emva koko uHadrian, uMlawuli waseRoma ukususela ngowe-117 ukuya kowe-138, wabuyisela iindevu kwisimbo.

Abongameli bokuqala be-15 base-US babengenazo iindevu (nangona uJohn Quincy Adams noMartin Van Buren badlala i-muttonchops ekhangayo.) Emva koko u-Abraham Lincoln, umnini weendevu ezidumileyo kwixesha lonke, wanyulwa. Waqalisa umkhwa omtsha—abongameli abaninzi ababemlandela babeneenwele zobuso, de kwafika uWoodrow Wilson ngowe-1913. Kwaye ukususela ngoko, bonke abongameli bethu babechetyiwe. Kwaye kutheni kungenjalo? Ukutsheva kuhambe umgama omde.