Thread: Do we really need more than one razor?

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

I suspect that's how most working class men did it for many years. Truth be told a hundred years or so ago, owning even two or three razors was probably a privelege reserved for men of serious means.

Exactly. Whereas now we have multiple (if not dozens of) razors, four and seven day sets were a class status symbol. The common schmuck might even be lucky to have one razor; it wasn't uncommon for many to not know how to shave themselves, and would save their pennies to get a barber shave once a week.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

Exactly. Whereas now we have multiple (if not dozens of) razors, four and seven day sets were a class status symbol. The common schmuck might even be lucky to have one razor; it wasn't uncommon for many to not know how to shave themselves, and would save their pennies to get a barber shave once a week.

Ryan!

You're right on the money here!!

As I’ve posted many time before, my old Boy Scout Scoutmaster gave me his father’s razor and his brother’s razors. Only one razor for each brother! My old Scoutmaster had taken his razor to Marine boot camp but had to send it home, and it was lost in the mail!

PLEASE NOTE!!!! He sent ‘HIS’ razor home!!! He didn’t send ONE of his razors home!

There was no such thing as RAD (Razor Acquisition Disorder) years ago! A straight razor was a tool that was used and taken care of!!

I have a razor with the coffin case that was given to me by a lady in her late 70’s or early 80’s that was her husbands grandfather’s and the price on the case says $2.50. In the time that the razor was purchased, it would have cost that man at least 2-3 days pay if not more!!!

The Art of shaving with a straight razor was passed down from generation to generation!

I do believe that razors were often passed along, but they were also given to a young man as in a ceremony from a Boy becoming a Man!