New York - October 08, 2007

Shave the Date

Cut Throat 101

Goldilocks sat at the bar anxiously awaiting her third date this week. She was frustrated.

Her first suitor was an artist from Greenpoint, and his beard was too bushy. Her second date, a banker from the Upper East Side, had rough stubble. In walked her third date.

And his shave was juuust right.

This chap had enrolled in Cut Throat 101, the new one-hour tutorial on straight razor shaving offered at the barbershop inside Freemans Sporting Club. (Not, incidentally, a real sporting club — unless you count hunting for chic 19th-century military-farmer clothing a sport.)

He learned tricks for getting the closest shave possible without irritating his skin or nicking his face. (Goldilocks thinks it’s “pretty cute.”) All the tools he needed were given out in class, and he even walked out with some great skin care products.

Which Goldilocks would surely (greedily) sample one by one.

But that’s a different story.

Available at Freemans Sporting Club, 8 Rivington Street, between Bowery and Chrystie Street (212-673-3209). Biweekly classes start October 14, 11 a.m.-noon. Call to reserve a space.