Fluffy Woman in a Boob Tube

Plucking Hell

Another article in The Guardian about the hair obsession. One very interesting statistic is that in 2005 British women spent £280 million pounds removing excess body hair. No wonder these cosmetics companies are constantly advertising to promote their idea of a perfect body.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,1684090,00.html

The Bathing Beauties

The first moviemaker to show the feminine armpit extensively in non-pornographic films was Mack Sennett, in his Bathing Beauty movies. Early movie stars like Theda Bara and Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties shaved their legs and armpits, supposedly because Sennett preferred that look.

The First Advert for a Female Shaving Product

 

 

It began with the May,1915 edition of Harper’s Bazaar magazine that featured a model sporting the latest fashion. She wore a sleeveless evening gown that exposed, for the first time in fashion, her bare shoulders, and her (shaved) armpits. Shocking at first, this soon caught on. At the same time a marketing executive with the Wilkinson Sword Company, which made razor blades for men, designed a campaign to convince women that underarm hair was unfeminine. By 1917 the sales of razor blades doubled as women conformed to this feminine stereotype of shaving under their arms.