Zeno Marx
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Shaved with a Gillette New Long Comb made in either the 1920s or 1930s. To be honest, I could shave with this every day. It's too aggressive for my tastes, but that's really the only downside to it. I'd like to try the Standard version. It's said to be a bit more mild than the open comb style, but that's usually the case. The design of the head insofar as consistent, perfect blade alignment is so very smart. It's probably how every fixed razor should be based. There are obviously other designs that arrive at the same destination, but this thing is most impressive in that regard. And to think they stamped out millions of them and didn't have to CNC from billet and charge $200-1000. I think they were like a $1.49 at the time, which I'm sure was still a good chunk of change for the average laborer. Around $22+ in today's money.
I was listening to a podcast maybe last month, and the guest was a writer. I can't remember the name off hand; someone from The Sopranos. He happened to mention an argument he had with the constume department because they had all the extras in scenes with beards, poofy mustaches, etc. This was a period piece in the 20s. He said it was one of the only times he stepped outside his writing role and raised some hell with another department. He scolded them for the beards, because at that time, EVERY man had purchased one of these Gillette New razors and was clean shaven. It was the overwhelming trend to have zero facial hair because this razor was a cultural gamechanger, and to prove his point, he told the costume department to look up college yearbooks online. He hadn't included the Gillette razor in the story, but it indeed did play a role in the story because of how it had affected men in that period. There wasn't a single beard, sideburn, mustache to be seen in these old yearbook shots.
I was listening to a podcast maybe last month, and the guest was a writer. I can't remember the name off hand; someone from The Sopranos. He happened to mention an argument he had with the constume department because they had all the extras in scenes with beards, poofy mustaches, etc. This was a period piece in the 20s. He said it was one of the only times he stepped outside his writing role and raised some hell with another department. He scolded them for the beards, because at that time, EVERY man had purchased one of these Gillette New razors and was clean shaven. It was the overwhelming trend to have zero facial hair because this razor was a cultural gamechanger, and to prove his point, he told the costume department to look up college yearbooks online. He hadn't included the Gillette razor in the story, but it indeed did play a role in the story because of how it had affected men in that period. There wasn't a single beard, sideburn, mustache to be seen in these old yearbook shots.
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