Happy shaver

Thank goodness he's leaving the mustache alone.

 

Men Shaving Day

I haven't shaved in 53 years, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy looking at pictures of naked or nearly naked men doing it.  Today we'll see eleven, starting with this photo that I acquired from Mr. Scumbeast who described it as "delightful."  I can't argue with that.  He's the only

guy in today's set who's using an electric razor, fwiw.

 

Military

My source said this man was part of a "photographic reconnaissance unit, 1940" 

without specifying which army or part of the world.

 

David van Brunt

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Mr. Right

Only Mr. Right is shaving, but the others are worth a look.

 

Annoyed?

He looks like he may be annoyed by the photographer.

 

Bill Mahoney

The verso of this amateur photo says "Bill Mahoney Shaving."

 

Dodgers

These guys are some of the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

AMG

One online auction website says young man with an all over tan and a furry bottom 

this is an unknown AMG model.  I got it during the sack of tumblr.

 

WWII German

Here we see a World War II German soldier using a railway 

switch wheel as a table for his shaving gear.

 

Seated

This fellow looks like he's sitting on the edge of a concrete sluice channel.

 

Repeat

I decided to end the shaving set with a repeat from five or six years ago which is my all time 

favorite photo of this type.  The happy nudist was on a camping trip in the American West.

 

Ablutions

Although the fellow at the center of our interest appears to be contemplating

 a swim, the rest of the group looks like they are doing their ablutions.

 

Guest Series via Dee Exx - Men Grooming Each Other

Mutual grooming is considered valuable for social bonding in almost all primate species.  Frequent commentator and contributor Dee Exx sent me today's series which shows human males, mostly military, doing exactly that.  We start with two U.S. Marines photographed by Carl Mydans.  The man at right is using a styptic pencil on a shaving cut.  Thanks a million Dee!

 

Royal Australian Navy I

This is the first of three photos of Australian Navy men, and it's a personal

 favorite that I have probably posted some time or the other.

 

Beard Trim

Myron Davis took this photo of a man getting a shipboard beard trim in 1944.

They were offshore just before the landings a Saidor, New Guinea.

 

Tent city

I can't tell what that dark streak is on the guy at right's face, but those tents were a hallmark

 of World War II U.S. military encampments.  The leggings indicate that it was fairly early

 in the war because those were rarely used in action after 1942.

 

Ruin

This one looks like a shave going on in a ruin.

 

Tankers

Efficiency seems to be in order for these two tankers mutually shaving.

 

Tulane ROTC

These men were part of a Tulane University ROTC unit on maneuvers in the 1950s.

They seem to have an interested audience in the background.