A beginner’s guide to traditional shaving kit
Firstly a disclaimer, the variety of traditional shaving kit on sale is so vast that the choices are effectively infinite. And because you are different to the next man so […]
Gillette Flare Tip
The 1940s Gillette Super Speeds. My birth razor
I have written on here before about the Gillette Super Speed razors, but mainly the Flare Tip version that was available from 1954 to 1966 and its short lived Red […]
Vintage starter razors just $10 each
I think this is a fantastic thing that has been done here. Stingraysrock (Jeff) is a member of the Damn Fine Shave The Shave Den forum who is selling off […]
Girls shaving on the front cover of magazines
This all started with the photograph of Italian actress Virna Lisi on the front of the March 1965 issue of Esquire magazine, conceived by George Lois as a comment on […]
The $10,000 razor
Just now there is a big popular movement towards traditional double edged wet shaving. Every vendor I speak to who serves this market is rushed off their feet. Items in […]
Gillette Super Speed advertisement
The above is a lovely advert for the three Gillette Super Speed models that existed in production alongside each other during the mid to late 1950s. I will now try […]
A nice eBay lot I missed out on
One of the great delights of real shaving is the wide range of different razors that you can own and use. This is a huge improvement from the monotony of […]
My new razors in the post today
I just opened a parcel from Los Alamos, New Mexico and in it are two fantastic, classical Gillette razors to add to my collection. These Gillette razors are fantastically engineered […]