First Traditional Item

pjgh said:
I didn't take up traditional shaving until my 40s!

I know, I know ... but as a teenager I simply could not afford, well couldn't afford soap either, so whatever was on the sink. I think I got a Gillette Sensor, which felt rather plush at the time. I shaved with cartridges thereafter, having been on the disposables before. Wilko Retractor, from memory.

I did get a Wilkinson Sword brush from the supermarket at some point in the earlier 2000s.

Aside from that, it was a puck of MWF (yes, I think this was my first purchase), a Merkur 23C with the long handle and then a badger brush from eBay. A pal from another forum who I met on here sent me a pack of mixed blades to get going with while my kit arrived.
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the 1st shaving gear i ordered offline was a puck of tabac & mitchells from amazon ,didn,t even know mitchells was made in bradford till it arrived ,lived in leeds allmost all my life .go figure :ROFLMAO:
 
Another Wilkie Classic buyer - I wanted to get away from carts for environmental reasons but wasn't sure I could handle a DE - the Classic was readily available and wouldn't break the bank if I decided to go back to carts.
 
Shaving just used to be shaving, nothing traditional about it, unless you had a straight razor, but those were scary as hell to a just barely teenager. The barber did a good job around your ears and the back of your neck with one, but you couldn't see what he was doing very well in the mirror.

First buy was a twisty Gilette (Whatever model Thrift Drug or Rexall was pushing in the late 1950's.) and probably a pack of Blue's, not the Supers, they were a ways off.

Does toilet paper count as a traditional shaving item? We seemed to use a fair bit of it back then!
 
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