Thread: Article "On Shaving" from Simplicity of Health, 1829.

Originally Posted by Apis

Love the line "bad habits are often contracted from the necessity of constantly going to barbers' shops", just what else were these guys peddling? Hope he's talking about rusty shaving skills!

You know a guy who spends too much time in a barber shop would likely be prone to smoking and chewing tobacco, coarse language and God knows what other bad habits. What's more, I can't imagine that barber shops back then didn't offer some adult beverage options and as is always the case, where there's adult beverages there will be those who don't know when to say when. "I'm going to get a shave" was probably code for "Yes, I'm going to have whiskers removed from my face but I'm also gonna hoist a few and hang with the fellas outside the long arm of female supervision."

thank god i found step 24 for i am indeed the most fashionable of fellows