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HOW WAS YOURE POSTURE IN 1956?

The Miss Correct Posture Contest winners pose with
their trophies and X-rays.

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A FATHER’S DAY GIFT THAT WILL ‘’CLICK’’

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Schick was founded in 1926 by Jacob Schick as the Magazine
Repeating Razor Company. In the same year, Schick introduced
its highly successful single-blade safety razor system, which
stored twenty blades in a steel injector. Jacob Schick sold the
company in 1928 and founded another company bearing his
name, in order to market his newly invented electric shavers.

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1958

Erfindung des Elektrorasierers - DER SPIEGEL
Jacob Schick
(September 16, 1877 – July 3, 1937)

He is called the father of electric razors.

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A VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FROM 1955

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Brylcreem is a British brand of hair styling products for men
created in 1928. It is marketed in the United States by
Combe Incorporated, based in White Plains, New York.

It was first advertised on television with the jingle "Brylcreem,
A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!

Brylcreem It is notable for the high shine it provides, which
spawned the name of the product, stemming from "
brilliantine"
and "cream".

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AUTUMN BEGINS TOMORROW AFTERNOON

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1940s personal care magazine ad.

In 1840, the J.B. Williams Company in Glastonbury,
Connecticut
, manufactured soap under the name
Ivorine. Williams decided to focus on its shaving
soap and sold Ivorine to Procter & Gamble, which
later developed Ivory.


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POPULAR TONIC KEPT YOUR HAIR IN TRIM

VINTAGE 1950'S WILDROOT Cream Oil Hair Dressing Bottle Box - $37.99 |  PicClick

Fearless Fosdick Wildroot Cream-Oil Sign This lot


The company first started selling Wildroot Hair Tonic in 1911,
In the 1920s, the tonic was primarily marketed to women, with advertisements warning that
bobbed hair and tight hats would
cause baldness, unless they used the Wildroot product.

Wildroot started marketing the product to men in the 1930s,
In 1937, the company was scolded by the
Federal Trade
Commission
for claiming that Wildroot Hair Tonic keeps
the scalp "healthy", "penetrates" the sebaceous glands,
cleans up dandruff "completely", and that the results were "guaranteed".    

Wildroot Cream-Oil was first sold in 1943, In the 1950s, it was
associated with the
greaser subculture, teenage boys who
slicked their hair down into a
ducktail style.]

A "Wildroot Hair Groom" is still being marketed today by the
Oakhurst Company.  

MaineCourse: Wild Root Cream Oil


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