Cut Hair with Your Electric Shaver (Feb, 1957)
Filed under: Impractical, Personal Appearance — @ 11:28 pm
Source: Science And Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1957
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Source: Science And Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1957
| Buy on Ebay
Cut Hair with Your Electric Shaver
With the Electric Shaver Haircutting Guide anyone owning a Remington, Schick or Norelco shaver can give a good haircut. Made of metal, the wire guide has an overall length of eight inches and a width of three inches.
In use, the shaver is inserted in the adaptor which holds it in position and the entire unit is placed against the head. One hand holds the guide while the other hand moves the shaver up and down as illustrated. Included in the $2.98 guide price are complete instructions. If you do not have a shaver, a $30.50 price includes your choice of Remington Deluxe or Schick, while a $25.95 price brings a Norelco with the guide.
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment by Richard — January 13, 2009 @ 6:05 am
It’s the haircut for the man on the van Gogh!
Comment by Charlene — January 13, 2009 @ 11:14 am
If my barber used this, maybe haircuts wouldn’t take so long
Comment by Myles — January 13, 2009 @ 11:50 am
This looks like a really painful, bad idea.
Comment by Michael Patrick — January 13, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
And what hair style can you get with that? Militar hair cut only?
Comment by JM — January 13, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Seriously! what the hell! using items that are not designed to be used for cutting hair, were people really that poor or dumb back then?
Well, nevermind. Later they used vaccuum cleaners to cut hair. Remember the flowbee http://www.flowbee.com/ just found out they still make those silly things!
Comment by Al Bear — January 13, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
One of the women at work jokingly offers to give a haircut to any male who gets a bit shaggy with her Flowbee. Both her husband and son wear baseball caps all the time…make of that what you will…
I wonder what the 1957 opinion of the Model A was?
Comment by nlpnt — January 13, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
Hey, they never said it would be a good haircut.
Comment by Mike — January 13, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
It helps you look like John Turturro.
Comment by John M. Hanna — January 13, 2009 @ 11:35 pm
Since I’ve never seen one of these marvelous devices for sale in an antique store, on eBay, in a thrift store or at a flea market, I’m inclined to think that it was something less than a success on the market….
Comment by Eliyahu — January 14, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Re: 1957 retrospective on the Model A:
Dunno, but if you ask nicely we might be treated to it….
Alan
Comment by Al — January 15, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
If my barber used this, maybe haircuts wouldn’t take so long
Comment by Myles — February 3, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Haha that is so funny. It’s crazy the things they came up with back then.
Comment by Jack — August 5, 2009 @ 7:28 pm