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Category Archives: Vintage
Soldiers Shaving In Belgium (1914)
As much as the Great War can be considered ‘light’, here is some more light fare for summer.
Training barbers (1950)
More light fare for summer. Today we have a British short on how barbers were trained.
Americans at work: Barbers
More light fare for the summer, this time a look at how a hairstylists, barbers and beauticians worked in the late fifties’ US.
“If attractive people are the leaders of society, then barbers and beauticians are the molders of leaders.” – although to me that is a very big if.
Bugs Bunny: The Rabbit of Seville
More light fare for summer. Perhaps Elmer should think a little before he has his head turned by a pretty skirt?
Woody: The Barber of Seville
More light fare for summer. The key take-away is to make sure your barber is qualified.
A clean shaven man
A bit of lighter fare – but the key take-away is that the ladies likes a smooth cheek 😉
The Razor of To-day
Well, if ‘today’ was one hundred and thirteen years ago, that is. Straight from the pages of “Hardware and housewares“, the advertisement is delightfully simple for the time. A tagline, and a drawing of an Gillette Old Type razor and some blades. No wall of text, as other ads had. Instead the image has to carry the message.
Even today, about a hundred and twenty years after the Old Type was introduced, this would be a pretty sweet setup. Well, not would be – it is a sweet setup. There is a reason why I got an Old Type in my rotation, and why my travel razor is a 1918’s Service Set.
I’m a little sceptical to the old carbon blades, but that is because any you can get today is – unsurprisingly – old.
Sheet metal injector
Injectors can be complicated razors, even when meant to be simple. The forerunners of injectors were more complicated still. But today I have a nice find for you all; a very simple sheet metal injector. Patented by A William H Camfield in 1936, the patent was assigned to the Magazine Repeating Razor Co – the people behind the Schick Magazine Razors.1
The invention was touted as an improved and simplified form of safety razor and magazine, which also was cheap to manufacture.
Continue readingWould you shave with a saw?
The answer is, according to this 1925 advertisement, no. A statement which, no doubt, a certain John Teetgen would agree with.
Which is why you needed to buy an Auto Strop. Because that can be honed every time you shave. So it don’t turn into a saw.
Good for may shaves, but they cleverly don’t say how many.