Are we living the dream right now, or did that day come and go...?
Golden age of DE shaving?
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Not sure but i'm glad i joined the current age.
We are living in The New Golden Age Of DE Shaving!
Absolutely now. So many great products and we get the best of the old and the new.
I say 50's -60's was the Golden Age. We are now in the Renaissance! The Platinum Age!
The Renaissance...nice!
I love right now, and the wonderful products and razors available! I have been DE shaving for less than two months, and I already have 6 awesome razors (vintage and modern). I personally believe the classic shaving ideal is much more appreciated by those that know the difference.
I'm just curious (and probably horribly ignorant), but did anything special happen in 1958 or 1921 since these years mark the beginnings of new ages in the poll?
Either way, our own time got my vote. Most DE-shavers seem to truly enjoy their shaves today - I doubt this was so when DEs were the in the shoes that Mach 3 now wears.
Either way, our own time got my vote. Most DE-shavers seem to truly enjoy their shaves today - I doubt this was so when DEs were the in the shoes that Mach 3 now wears.
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Gillette's 1904 patents granting them a favored place in the replaceable blade market expired. To compete they simultaneously dropped the price of their old style handles to match the competition and only traduced a new handle at their traditionally high price of about $5.
Gillette's adjustable razor was introduced in 1958 and defined modern shaving in the 60s.
No doubt: now. We, now, connected with all the World, able to deal with different vendors/buyers. We can try thousands of different razors, blades, soaps/creams from all the World, we can buy them in few seconds, we can receive them in few days. Not bound to the retail store close to home.
Yes: now is the golden age.
Yes: now is the golden age.
Well, the "golden age" for me is right now. However typically when the term "golden age" is used for something, it denotes when that particular thing came into its own. For example, the Golden Age of Television was when it finally started to displace Radio as the #1 entertainment medium for most people.
So, I guess it is a matter of perspective.
So, I guess it is a matter of perspective.
As I could have only participated in two of the five, starting shaving in the early '90s, I would have to say, the Golden Age for me is now.
Though, in some ways, we are right now on a downswing of the curve. So many great products have been discontinued in the last 5 years or so. GSB blades, 7 o'clock blues... P160, Merkur 11c... I mean... it's horrible... Irisch Moos is a thing of the past, but Massey Caswell is still cranking out it's stuff? Where is the justice in that?
Many of them didn't exist 50 years ago, many new products are arriving almost any day or so (Pannacrema, TGN, WSP...). Evolution?
We probably have a wider array of shaving hardware and software available to the masses than at any other time thanks to the number of boutique producers and the internet.
As for the raw numbers of people DE shaving, we have no doubt been on the decline since the invention of the electric razor and certainly since the introduction of the "new and improved" disposable cartridges and disposable razors.
Another thing to keep in mind is that even guys shaving with a blade were more than likely to be using canned goo than shaving soap from about 1950 until whenever this DE renaissanceance began.
As for the raw numbers of people DE shaving, we have no doubt been on the decline since the invention of the electric razor and certainly since the introduction of the "new and improved" disposable cartridges and disposable razors.
Another thing to keep in mind is that even guys shaving with a blade were more than likely to be using canned goo than shaving soap from about 1950 until whenever this DE renaissanceance began.
This! +2
Great historic info, thank you!
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