http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10499492
This is a story I found today in one of NZs biggest newspapers (doesn't make it any good though).
Basically some guy went for a straight razor shave so he could compare that with a Gillette Fusion shave. A guy went for the shave but a woman wrote the article.
The story says nothing about DE shaving at all and just does a vague comparison between modern and straights. They have one guy at a barbers (22 years old doing straight shaves for a year) saying straights are better then some other guy (a barber for 40 years who runs Mr Barber Training Center apparently) who said "Today you are competing with razors that have four or five blades in them, are self-lubricating ... even the old-style cut-throat with one blade isn't going to compete with a razor with four or five blades in it.
The modern ones will cut closer than the old-fashioned one. Technology has got so much better. People romanticise the old cut-throat shave but it's not a patch on modern gear."
I wonder if Mr Barber Training Center is sponsored by Gillette?
The guy who got the shave did prefer the straight shave though and thought the results were better.
As a story though, complete fluff!
I am working on changing things here though. I've been threatening my friends (who all think I am nuts buying razors and soaps and so on) that I would blog about my wet shaving experiences so today I started work on that. We don't all have to be ignorant shavers down here!
Simon
This is a story I found today in one of NZs biggest newspapers (doesn't make it any good though).
Basically some guy went for a straight razor shave so he could compare that with a Gillette Fusion shave. A guy went for the shave but a woman wrote the article.
The story says nothing about DE shaving at all and just does a vague comparison between modern and straights. They have one guy at a barbers (22 years old doing straight shaves for a year) saying straights are better then some other guy (a barber for 40 years who runs Mr Barber Training Center apparently) who said "Today you are competing with razors that have four or five blades in them, are self-lubricating ... even the old-style cut-throat with one blade isn't going to compete with a razor with four or five blades in it.
The modern ones will cut closer than the old-fashioned one. Technology has got so much better. People romanticise the old cut-throat shave but it's not a patch on modern gear."
I wonder if Mr Barber Training Center is sponsored by Gillette?
The guy who got the shave did prefer the straight shave though and thought the results were better.
As a story though, complete fluff!
I am working on changing things here though. I've been threatening my friends (who all think I am nuts buying razors and soaps and so on) that I would blog about my wet shaving experiences so today I started work on that. We don't all have to be ignorant shavers down here!
Simon
