"Your Face and Your Razor" is a survey of safety razors published in The Independent in September 1913. Courtesy of Google Books.
"Your Face and Your Razor"
"Your Face and Your Razor"
The State of Shaving ca. 1913
- Thread starter JoeH
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Nice find! Amazing to think / see that some of the razors shown there are still in use (by us nuts) today.
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I like the little lawnmower shaver. They need a grass catcher bag though.
And the hoe, too.
That's a stropper.
Just a heads up, I think they prefer the term "professional sex industry worker" these days.
Heh heh, I like the vaguely snotty tone the author takes.
What all this talk about ho's?
anyone here own a sexto-blade razor?
Giving this old thread a bump as I just happened across the same article, and it's really a fantastic read. I love how the author slags off the Gillette, and how he says he's been using the same blade in his GEM Junior lather catcher for over a year! The article was at a perfect point in history where there were still plenty of players in the marketplace vying for dominance.
I'll also drop in this direct link to the article on Google Books, since it looks like the PDF Joe originally linked to got over-compressed and the photograph came out rather crunchy.
I'll also drop in this direct link to the article on Google Books, since it looks like the PDF Joe originally linked to got over-compressed and the photograph came out rather crunchy.
I find it very ironic that we put so much faith in the Gillette type safety razors when according to this writing they were held in relatively low esteem by seemingly many who were "in the know" when it came to proper shaving. I wonder what the author would think of that style razor today given the great improvement in blade quality. Of course he would complain that we had to constantly buy new blades. Think of what he'd say about cartridge razors! 
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