Thread: "Interesting" advice from an interesting site

Electric razors have always been heavily promoted but they have really never been a really big seller in this country. I believe they sell much better in Europe. They keep improving them but I think they have many inherent limitations. Blade shaving has always been the meat and potatoes way of shaving here in the U.S. I think there have always been straight shavers through the 1970s and 1980s and I think there are many more than people realize. I think they just kept a low profile and of course there were no computers and no sites like this to promote it.

I've got an electric razor from that era! No way I'm going to let it touch my face to answer your question though Blade Wielder.

That long ago I can't precisely remember what I was shaving with when, but at some point in the very early seventies I was one of the last holdouts using a single-edge razor. I also had a Norelco, triple-header I think, that I used in high school and at least part of college. None of this rechargeable krah-tah then, you plugged the damn thing in and stood at the sink like a man. One thing I will say, the electrics of forty years ago were made to last and to be repaired. Those I've looked at recently (not for my own use) seem, like so much else today, to be made to be used a couple of years and thrown away.

btw... a lot of people miss all the pictures that were originally posted in that article. They are under the "images" icon in the upper right.

Hmmmm.....a well shaved hippie...now THAT'S something you don't see everyday!