Originally Posted by
Walt
Quite the opposite bigspendur. World War One was where the double edged blade really came into its own. According to Gordon McKibben in his book "The Cutting Edge", Military regulations at the beginning of the war required that every man provide himself with a shave kit and Gillette's compact $5 kit with disposable blades far outsold all competitors such as AutoStrop and Eversharp. It was necessary for soldiers to be clean shaved so their gas masks would fit tightly to their faces.
Before the war's end the U.S. military began issuing Gillette shaving kits to every U.S. serviceman providing 3.5 million razors stuffed into canvas kits and metal boxes.
Regards - Walt