A Hairy History: The Removal of Body Hair | HellOnHairyLegs - 1 views
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battered
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Veronica Mier on 12 Apr 13Verb; to beay persistently or hard, pound repeatedly.
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“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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billed
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Having a billed or beak, especially one of a specified kind, shape color, etc. (Usually used in combination)
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procrastinate
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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.
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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,”
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The took advantage of the World War II to advertise the thrust of leg hair removal.
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contemporary
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adj- Existing, occurring, or living at the sames time; belonging to the same time.
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combat
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distasteful
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pumice
