Originally Posted by
LawsonStone
This is going to sound a bit abstract, but here goes.
Some of my very earliest memories of my grandfathers, on both sides of my family, memories that are almost at the fade point, so early that they are hardly there, are of them shaving with straight razors. Growing up in the small town south, where every little town had a barber shop, and every barber routinely gave straight shaves, and men were split about 50/50 between the straight and the DE razor, I recall being awestruck that my grand-pas both could wield the straight razor. My dad started me on it, just mowing down peach fuzz, rather than risk buying me a "real" razor. But that was only a short time, then I got a DE and then cartridge and then disposable…
So shaving with the straight somehow connects my life today with some of my oldest, and most moving memories of men that I admired and enjoyed.
We have, in my small town right here, an old fashioned Barbershop. I don't know if he gives straight shaves or not, but I plan to ask about it.