Back around 1915, society started objecting to the fact that ladies had objectionable hair. This then created a marked for ladies’ razors, a marked Gillette naturally was happy to fill with their Milady Décolleté Gillette.
Continue readingThere are different things that gets my attention when I browse old razor and blade advertisements. Sometimes it is an interesting picture. Sometimes it is a razor that is unknown to me. Sometimes it is hilarious claims in the text.
And sometimes… it is the bright colour.
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A smooth shave after a busy couple of weeks.
A repost from five years ago, for the entertainment of new readers.
When you think “disposable razor” today, you think plastic. But there was a time before non-biodegradable materials were the material of choice for things used a few times and then dumped in the landfill… and in those days a lady would want smooth legs and hairless pits even if she had forgotten her grooming equipment when she went on a unplanned rendezvous.
Continue readingCourtesy of WikiMedia, an overview of the various types of double edged razors you might run into:
Continue readingThere is a few thing I think of when I hear McDonald. Most of them involves greasy junk food, apple pies filled with lava hot goop, and having to pay out large amounts of money for serving coffee that was way too warm in a container with an improperly secured lid to old ladies. The one thing that I don’t think about when I head McDonald is razors.
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