The straight razor shave

A black shopfront on a wet street at dusk: the name Razorbill over a red line of light, a striped barber pole by the glass door, one barber chair inside

A man in a barber chair seen from behind; two hands draw a black cape round his shoulders

A hand whips a shaving brush in a black bowl of white lather; beside the bowl, a straight razor on a red towel

A shaving brush paints white lather onto the cheek and jaw of a man leaning back in the chair

Seen from above: one hand pulls a leather strop taut from the side of the chair, the other draws an open razor along it

A straight razor, held flat, has gone down a lathered cheek and left a clean strip of skin behind it

A hot white towel wrapped over the man

The counter after the shave: the razor back on its red towel, the bowl with what is left of the lather, the wet brush