Thread: The historical price of razors

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Originally Posted by littlesilverbladefromwale

So your gas mask would make an effective seal with your face

Absolutely correct. WW1 was the first time armed forces engaged in chemical warfare. I don't think anyone realized that it would change the shaving culture forever. But it did, and because of that we now shave daily. Grats littlesilverbladefromwales.

Originally Posted by littlesilverbladefromwale

I'm often told that! I wish
And there is an S missing off the end.......

Get admin to change it

LSBFW sounds good.

Regarding the change to a clean-shaven look: I once came across a funny quote in Anton Chekhov's diaries, something like, "A man without a beard looks a strange as a woman with." That was about 1890 in Russia.

Interesting I was reading in my history book that the Russian govt., I think around the 1700s or maybe earlier charged a tax in order for men to wear a beard. I think the cold weather contributed to keeping facial hair in Russia. Most of the photos I've seen of old people like Isaac Newton (portrait) and other portraits from 1600s to 1800s in my history book show men clean shaven or partly shaven. I thought maybe for the portrait they shaved, maybe regularly. Newton had no facial hair in the portrait.

I have a portrait of my great great grandfather as well and my great grandfather when he was little, my great great grandpa was clean shaven. Then a photo of my great grandfather older with his wife, shaven, black and white picture I'm guessing around when the camera first came out. My grandpa came from a noble family in the Czechoslovakia though, now Czech Republic, so that may have played part of it. I'm planning a visit there soon, this September to October, about 3 weeks.