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This is an interesting thread.
I agree that upscale barber shops and city barbers shops would certainly have a lot more luxury than the rural or small town barber shops, especially along the Eastern...

That is for absolute certain. There was a certainly the wealthy, I don;t think there is a period in history without them. There was also a middle class, but not at the same % of society as it is...

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Likely it would depend on where in the world the barber was. If the climate had chilly winter and warm summer the hot water was likely a season item. It was time of not much wasted and most...

Ah the logic of the old English. If you were good and just citizens they would send you to freeze to death in the Canadian winters, but if you were a badass that could not be trusted, you were...

There are a lot of people that make soap in the area I live. None of them can make a good shave soap. That is a bit more tricky. I lived off grid until '89, and did a lot of that kind of thing for...

Other than the soap I'm not sure a lot has changed. A cold water shave with some old school soap, straight razor, I think boar was likely the common brush, I think we are pretty close most of the...