{"id":13340,"date":"2009-12-23T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13340"},"modified":"2014-01-20T01:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:53:27","slug":"1930s-ad-touting-razor-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/23\/1930s-ad-touting-razor-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"1930s Ad Touting Razor Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence that they&#8217;ve been trying to sell us high-technology razors since at least the 1930s (<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1343331.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13342\" title=\"razorgood12011934205\" alt=\"razorgood12011934205\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/razorgood12011934205.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Schermack Round Safety Razor is the first really efficient and safe razor for women&#8211;because it&#8217;s round.\u00a0 It fits all under-arm curves perfectly&#8211;any way you hold it. No sharp points or porjecting edges.\u00a0 Shaves faster&#8211;smooth and clean&#8211;yet with no danger of cutting delicate skin.\u00a0 Just what women have long been looking for.<\/p>\n<p>A Splendid Christmas Gift!<\/p>\n<p>As beautifully finished as a piece of jewelry&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A splendid Christmas gift, indeed.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence that they&#8217;ve been trying to sell us high-technology razors since at least the 1930s (source): Text: The Schermack Round Safety Razor is the first really efficient and safe razor for women&#8211;because it&#8217;s round.\u00a0 It fits all under-arm curves perfectly&#8211;any way you hold it. No sharp points or porjecting edges.\u00a0 Shaves faster&#8211;smooth and clean&#8211;yet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,253,254,290,23705],"class_list":["post-13340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hygiene","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61055,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions\/61055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}