Showing posts with label Hygiene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hygiene. Show all posts

Monday, June 30, 2025

Medical shaving waivers could soon get you kicked out of the Army

Ah man, this again?

Medical shaving waivers could soon get you kicked out of the Army

Forthcoming revisions to grooming standards would do away with permanent shaving waivers, which could largely impact Black soldiers.

I get why the clean shaving rule came in originally.  Gas masks. And I get why its still around.

But US troops haven't been gassed since 1918, saving for getting gassed by ourselves with CS.  They ought to let up on this.

Friday, May 6, 2022

Saturday May 6, 1922. Before the invention of safety.


I don't know what the article had to state about "safe farming", but a kid with a straight razor sure isn't safe.

Safety razors had existed for some time by the time this cover was out, but they were slow to gain widespread acceptance.  The turning point had been World War One, as the Army had issued them to troops and allowed them to keep them when they left the service, so the straight razor was in fact on its way out as the principal shaving tool by 1922.

Gillette's patent for their safety razor from early in the 20th Century.

The safety razor was a factor in the rise of women shaving, something that had not been at all common until the World War One era.  The introduction of the safety razor coincided with women shaving their arm pits, the new tool obviously being much more suited to that task than a straight razor, which would be down right dangerous.  Women also started shaving their legs, somewhat, in the 1920s, but the introduction of nylons limited that practice. With their shortage during World War Two, the practice greatly expanded.

KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah's first licensed radio station, when on the air.

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