Thread: Need Help: UK - vintage ahaving mores and items - 1914-1920

Shoot puck now Coach? Oh wait, your'e talking about a different kind of puck...

Hi Matt,

thanks!!! That's precisely the sort of information I am hunting for. Thanks so much!

Cheers

B.

Originally Posted by Scookum

Shoot puck now Coach? Oh wait, your'e talking about a different kind of puck...

HEY!!! I was a 25 goal-scorer one year...one year...

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

HEY!!! I was a 25 goal-scorer one year...one year...

Hey, me too!

OK, my 25 came in about 1986 while playing for Roblin Park Raiders in Winnipeg's Tier III rec league, two of them deflected in off defencemens' helmets, and another two were empty-netters, but I'm claiming it just the same!

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Hey, me too!

OK, my 25 came in about 1986 while playing for Roblin Park Raiders in Winnipeg's Tier III rec league, two of them deflected in off defencemens' helmets, and another two were empty-netters, but I'm claiming it just the same!

Off of brain buckets?!?! I gotta hear about those!
Couldn't anybody skate? Or were you the goalie?
Box hockey or floor hockey?

Originally Posted by Berenice

Hi all,

I need help regarding the shaving habits, items and particulars back in 1914 to 1920 in Great Britain, particularly the Northern regions (Blackpool - Accrington - Preston) and London and greater London on the other hand (if geography plays any role there). I'm not very knowledgeable in this regard, so I would value everyone's input. I'll ask my questions with detail, but please answer from whatever angle you have knowledge there:

1. What sort of shaving item would a young man of 16-18 years age have started shaving with (a shopkeeper's assistant, so lower middle-class, if that's important)?
2. Would he have taken these items along as a soldier (other ranks) or would the army have provided him with something standard? I'm aware of the fact that uniform rules still made the mustache obligatory, yet a lot of soldiers went clean-shaven. Does anyone know whether these were all volunteers?
3. What brands and kinds of shaving soap and aftershave were available in the UK in 1914? During the war in the army? In 1918? How did they smell like, how act as substances?
4. How did these items all look like? I'd be overjoyed to be pointed at photos.
5. How expensive were they? Where from would a man buy them in a city or in a rural area?
6. What were the shaving norms in civilian life at the time? By that I wonder whether e.g. a 5-o'clock shadow would have to come off in general before dinner or only for certain occasions. Also how much the loss of the ability to grow a beard or a mustache would be a hardship or mortification for a young man.
7. Who would have taught him to shave? Father? Elder brother? A visit to a barber?

I know, curious questions I really hope for a few answers though. Thank you everyone who tries to wrap their brains around this!

Cheers

B.

Just PM Wullie. He was there!

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Hey, me too!

OK, my 25 came in about 1986 while playing for Roblin Park Raiders in Winnipeg's Tier III rec league, two of them deflected in off defencemens' helmets, and another two were empty-netters, but I'm claiming it just the same!

My coach bought me a snow shovel...if you don't get it, MLA should.

Just PM Wullie. He was there!

Who is Wullie and, erm, how old is he?

Cheers

B.

You can try: http://s12.zetaboards.com/The_Trench...opic/127588/1/

Apr 14 2006,
The issue British razor was a "cut-throat" (straight) razor in a case (handle) of a black/dark grey compound, similar to that used for identity discs. Earlier patterns (horn handle) and cilvilan blades have also been seen.

The British issue blade is didtinguished by having a square cut end as opposed to the more common (civilian) rounded tip*

Any Safety razors carried by British swaddies would have been private purchase.


* I think this possibly dates back to the practice of destinguishing Government issue kit, to try and prevent their sale onto the civilian market."

I believe that I saw that shaving in the trenches was almost a necessity because of the use of poison gas. Your gas mask didn't fit properly over a beard. Not good.

Wow, that's a find, because I was scouring the WWI sources already! And ouch on the material, because if it really was the same as the discs, then the handles would have been very likely to dissolve. It was little more than lacquered cardboard and already proved a huge problem with the identity markers which were mush but weeks after the men's demise exposed to the Flanders mud and rain. Kits and haversacks also got wet very often.

Would a square tip have made any difference in handling or shaving comfort?

Cheers

B.