Originally Posted by
thebully
I had a talk with my grandfather and his father used to shave with a straight until he went into hospital where they made him use a safety razor and after that couldn't go back to the straight. Anyway he told me that the consensus in his fathers day was to shave before washing your face or showering as if your face became too wet the skin would take in water and swell slightly so that after you shaved and the skin dried again the shrinking of the skin would reveal more stubble.