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A Hairy History: The Removal of Body Hair | HellOnHairyLegs - 1 views

  • battered
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      Verb; to beay persistently or hard, pound repeatedly.
  • “Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair.”
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      Removing underarm hair became a trend. Once women started modeling dresses with hairless underarms. 
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      By having the word "hell" 
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  • billed
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      Having a billed or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape color, etc. (Usually used in combination) 
  • procrastinate
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      Verb; to defer action, delay.. until opportunity is lost. 
  • American female body hair shaving was triggered by a “sustained marketing assault” that began first against armpit hair in 1915, when sleeveless dresses came into fashion 5.
  • The World War II-era shortening of skirts further helped advertisers’ thrust for leg hair removal, and “[b]y the middle of the century, attention had been drawn to lower parts of the anatomy and a tanned, shapely, hairless leg was a thing of beauty,”
    • Veronica Mier
       
      The took advantage of the World War II to advertise the thrust of leg hair removal. 
  • contemporary
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      adj- Existing, occurring, or living at the sames time; belonging to the same time.
  • combat
  • distasteful
  • pumice
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