10 Razors Only Old Money Shaves With (You've Never Heard of #1)

10 Razors Only Old Money Shaves With (You've Never Heard of #1) In 1901 King Camp Gillette patented the disposable blade and built a $57 billion empire on one idea: that men would stop thinking about shaving and simply buy. Old money never bought it. For generations, the inheriting class has shaved with houses that have no advertising budget, no sponsored posts, and in some cases no retail presence at all. This video counts down ten of those houses, from a Solingen forge founded in 1906 to a Sheffield blade maker whose razors are now passed from father to son like a good hunting rifle. Number three has not left the same London address since Napoleon was crossing Europe. Number one is a name the man who runs Gillette today has most likely never heard. These are the razors only old money shaves with, and the reasons why nothing Gillette sells comes close to replacing them. #OldMoney #QuietLuxury #LuxuryShaving #MenStyle #WetShaving #StraightRazor #MensGrooming #TruefittAndHill #OldMoneyAesthetic #LuxuryLifestyle #MenOver60 #classicstyle 1. Gillette Patent History https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/king-gillette-patents-safety-razor.html 2. Truefitt and Hill Official History https://www.truefittandhill.com/pages/history 3. Geo. F. Trumper founded 1875 https://traditionalshaving.co.uk/collections/geo-f-trumper 4. D.R. Harris founded 1790 https://www.drharris.co.uk/about-us 5. Thiers Issard Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiers_Issard