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

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    The 1920s extended the hairless ideal of the armpits to the legs as well. Hemlines rose on skirts and dresses from 1910 to 1927. Americans wore thick dark-colored stockings at first, which were taken over during this period by flesh-colored stockings to simulate the look of bare legs, [1] without actually being bare.

  3. Hair removal - Wikipedia

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    Some men shave because they cannot genetically grow a "full" beard (generally defined as an even density from cheeks to neck), their beard color is genetically different from their scalp hair color, or because their facial hair grows in many directions, making a groomed or contoured appearance difficult to achieve. Some men shave because their ...

  4. Body hair - Wikipedia

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    Terminal hair growth on arms is a secondary sexual characteristic in boys and appears in the last stages of puberty. Vellus arm hair is usually concentrated on the elbow end of the forearm and often ends on the lower part of the upper arm. This type of intense arm vellus hair growth sometimes occurs in girls and children of both sexes until ...

  5. 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.

  6. Body grooming - Wikipedia

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    Once an activity limited to the daily morning shave of the face, grooming is now about the whole body from head to toe. 20% of men aged 15 to 90 in the United States and 50% of men in Germany of the same age shave, wax, sugar or trim hair below the neck. For men between 24 and 34 in the U.S., the number jumps to 30% and in Germany, the number ...

  7. The best time to shave your legs is actually at night - AOL

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    Meanwhile, if you shave in the morning, legs feel smoother than they really are, making us believe we have achieved the perfect shave -- and if you step outside, the cold will tighten your skin ...

  8. Drew Barrymore didn't shave her armpits for 3 months. Here's ...

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    Another, 30, adds, “I barely ever shave my legs, but my armpits, maybe once a month.” A 28-year-old woman notes, “As a teen I used to shave my legs and armpits a few times a week.

  9. Shaving - Wikipedia

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    A man shaving his neck using a straight razor A woman leg shaving using a razor Cartridge razor with two blades. Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down—to the level of the skin or otherwise. Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to ...