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  2. History of removal of leg and underarm hair in the United States

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    This shifted in the early 1920s when the new feminine idea became based on the body. [4] Women revealed more of their bodies in 1920s clothing; and at the same time they began using bras, makeup, and dieting. [4] Author of The Body Project, J. Brumberg, summarizes, "The body itself became the fashion in the 1920s."

  3. Leg shaving - Wikipedia

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    Woman shaving her legs. Leg shaving is the practice of removing leg hair by shaving the hair off using a razor or electric shaver.In addition, some people remove leg hair using waxing, sugaring, depilatories, epilators or other depilation devices, or lasers, but shaving remains the least expensive and one of the least painful methods.

  4. Pubic hair - Wikipedia

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    Pubic hair (or pubes / ˈ p j uː b iː z /, / p j uː b z /) is terminal body hair that is found in the genital area and pubic region of adolescent and adult humans. The hair is located on and around the sex organs, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the thighs, even extending down the perineum, and to the anal region.

  5. Hair removal - Wikipedia

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    A much smaller number of Western women also shave their heads, often as a fashion or political statement. Some women also shave their heads for cultural or social reasons. In India, tradition required widows in some sections of the society to shave their heads as part of being ostracized (see Women in Hinduism § Widowhood and remarriage). The ...

  6. Liberal women withhold sex, shave heads to protest Trump win ...

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    In the US, only 25% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 identify as politically liberal, while 40% of women in the same age group do, according to a recent Gallup poll.

  7. Body hair - Wikipedia

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    Leg hair sometimes appears at the onset of adulthood, with the legs of men more often hairier than those of women. For a variety of reasons, people may shave their leg hair, including cultural practice or individual needs. Around the world, women generally shave their leg hair more regularly than men, to conform with the social norms of many ...

  8. Bikini waxing - Wikipedia

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    Trimmed" or "cut" refers to pubic hair that has been shortened, but not completely removed other than shaving the inner thighs. Some women trim, but keep hair on their labia, while removing the pubic hair on the mons pubis. Pubic hair may be styled into several basic styles [4]: 139 [15] [16] which are often referred to by different names. [17]

  9. How fatphobia influences what fashions are considered ... - AOL

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    Women's clothing trends have long been designed to accentuate certain features (often to cater to the male gaze), even before "flattering" was a commonly used term.