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#1 2008-11-14 18:04:01

captainpreppy
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The iGent's Razor

I have said this occasionally on other fora, but I am really quite baffled by the obsession of the iGentry in grooming fora with obsolete razors. Admitting you favor a modern razor is rather in the same category as saying you're a Kenneth Cole (or Church's) fan, that most of your wardrobe comes from Men's Wearhouse and that you wear nothing but wrinkle-free shirts!

The straight razor I can comprehend, its mastery being an elegant masculine accomplishment requiring technique and skill. It is also rather macho, given that a slip of the hand can cut the hell out of your face! Moreover, it is claimed to give a shave of unsurpassed closeness and smoothness.

However, the obsession of the iGentry with the double-edged safety razor like the Merkur or the vintage Gillettes, I just cannot savvy. I started shaving in 1954 (on my mother's orders). I shaved daily after the beginning of 1959. Until 1982, I used Gillette safety razors, mostly a Gillette adjustable. Once I had occasion to try the Gillette Good News disposable razor, the Gillette adjustable I'd had for 25 years went into the trash. From the Good News I graduated to the Mach 3, and I recently switched to the Gillette Fusion, which I like even better. I cannot recall a single thing about the older style of razor that would want to make me go back to it. Yeah, the blades for the Fusion are more expensive. I figure a year's supply will set me back about $78, which doesn't seem like a great amount in a subculture that ofttimes springs for $1,000 shoes!

So, anybody here have any idea whence comes this fascination the iGentry for the old-fashioned DE razor? I know some claim it gives a better shave, but I sure never noticed the difference!

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#2 2008-11-14 18:12:13

John Rotten
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#3 2008-11-14 18:27:25

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Hey Capn

If you listen to crazy voices, you have only yourself to blame.

 

#4 2008-11-14 19:50:47

Film Noir Buff
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#5 2008-11-15 10:38:22

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#6 2008-11-15 13:32:36

eg
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#7 2008-11-15 14:12:54

Tony Ventresca
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The three-bladed things seem to last longer, shave smoother, and don't cut me. That's all I need, to be honest. If I want to recreate the nineteenth century I have my great-great-grandmother's whalebone corset.

 

#8 2008-11-15 14:19:19

Marc Grayson
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It's a manliness thing...

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/04/how-to-shave-like-your-grandpa/


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"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not."  Oscar Wilde

 

#9 2008-11-15 23:16:21

Horace
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It's Arse.  Astute observation ol' chum, esp. on the straight razor v. the safety/merkur type.

I use the ol' Mach 3 but should try the Fusion, but didn't switch from the Atra to the Mach 3 until the Fusion came out.  Then I went to Costco and bought something like 160 blades so I'd never have to go to Costco again.  But when they run out, per'aps I'll graduate to the Fusion.


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#10 2008-11-16 00:58:25

Howard
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www.badgerandblade.com

 

#11 2008-11-16 04:44:02

Cheeky Monkey
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one little discussed area on the furums is the shaving of  the pubic hair area - in my experience ladies love nothing more than licking a nicely clean shaven  pair of testicles.
Now after much trial and error I have found that the application of a shaving oil rather than foam or soap is better ( you can see what you are doing better to avoid all those nooks and crannys where a blade could possibly snag)
It seems a twin bladed razor with the little blue lube strip allows for the optimum removal of the wispy hairs that grow thereabouts- for the sake of symetry-I prefer to keep the hair around the pubic bone above the penis trimmed -but not shaven although-I do feel it is important to ensure full hair removal from the shaft area.

As an aside and as a matter of observation I prefer my ladies to be trimmed and neatly presented rather than shaved.


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#12 2008-11-16 07:06:53

Tony Ventresca
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#13 2008-11-16 09:03:57

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#14 2008-11-16 19:30:46

Incroyable
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I have actually used some of those modern Gilette Fusion-esque things and have to say that a Double-edged razor is far superior. However, I think this depends on what kind of blades you buy; personally, I much prefer the Japanese Feather blades, which are made by a company that produces surgical knives.

I have a set of straight razors, but have not yet had them honed.

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#15 2008-11-16 20:28:38

Cheeky Monkey
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#16 2008-11-16 23:18:44

captainpreppy
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#17 2008-11-17 00:51:34

Incroyable
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#18 2008-11-17 02:50:29

Moose Maclennan
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As a Merkur user I am now officially an iGent. Fuck.

Why? They do not clog up like those plastic razors, they weigh more than three grammes, they do not sport a nasty gooey lube strip and a pack of blades does not cost as much as reasonable bottle of Scotch. And a sideyways slip will not result in a cut. Or two, or three, or five or whatever goofy little parallel cuts.

I'm also a big fan of the classic Gillette Blue II disposable razors, without the lubey strip.

 

#19 2008-11-17 06:20:16

John Rotten
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I propose the use of the term iGent's Razor to refer to any time a member of the modern human race, in a seemingly irrational bid to cling to the good old days, refuses to upgrade to a modern amenity so that he may stay true to his traditionalist roots.  In other words, the most counterintuitive, difficult to use item will often be the item chosen by the iGentry to accomplish a task or fit a need.

See a gentleman in a pair of button boots that took him 30 minutes to fasten, even though Eddie Green makes an identical pair with laces that takes 30 seconds?  iGent's Razor at work.

What ho, that man down at the park on the bicycle with the 6 foot front tire?  iGent's Razor.

A discreetly worn derringer for personal protection on the mean streets of Rapid City, Iowa?  iGent's Razor. 

Science has its Razor, interweb sartorialists need their own. 

The only question I am afraid it cannot answer is what contraption the iGentry uses to connect to the interwebz.. wink

 

#20 2008-11-17 06:28:03

Moose Maclennan
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#21 2008-11-17 07:34:51

Taylor McIntyre
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Sadly I cannot see this thread as I am so Gentlemanly we do not have the Internet in my sinister-little-buried-in-the middle-of-the-country village.

And even if we had I wouldn't read or respond to threads like this.

We have a televison, but I haven't turned it on since the Falklands war. Nothing any good has happened since.

I'm proud to be English. Ever so.

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#22 2008-11-17 07:36:36

Tony Ventresca
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#23 2008-11-17 11:04:37

Dorian
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#24 2008-11-17 13:58:44

captainpreppy
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#25 2008-11-17 13:59:26

Tony Ventresca
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