Old movies can be fun to watch at times. This short one features – as the title suggest – a quick shave and brush up. And that is about it… more or less.
Continue readingNo-shave November is simply not an option, for a great many reasons
Decided to take the small luxury of going to the local barber shop for a straight razor shave. Felt really nice, but actually got a small nick…
Shaving is saving, the advertisement promises, as long as the shaving is done with a Gillette. And in 1906 this might have been true… today? Buying the current offering from Gillette or the other big multinationals is a sure way to spend money – carts are expensive, when compared to the good old double edged blade.
Continue readingBack 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.
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