Compared to other men

downtown

late evening, Max Dempsey has an edge. While others sport the dark blue shade of a

five o clock shadow

, Dempsey's chin and jawline flaunts fresh.

The key is to know when he's going out after work. To plan ahead. When he's decided that he's going to be carousing, he makes an appointment with his barber -- he goes to the same one each time-- who shaves him using a

straight razor

. This will happen as close to quitting time as possible so that he's able to sport a clean look the entire evening, and even into the night if he so happens to end up spending the night with a woman.

Nobody except for his wife and daughter has seen a

beard

on his face. Dempsey has never woken up with to any of the women he sleeps with; none of them have ever seen the morning light cast against his bristles, because like a good husband, he exits during night, drives home, and slides into bed next to his sleeping wife.