The Smooth Transition to Women’s Hair Removal

In the early days of the United States, women didn’t bother much about removing hair from their legs and underarms. But as times changed, so did the definition of femininity. It wasn’t just about moral character anymore. Since the advent of electric razors in the ’40s, less body hair has been preferred.

With a wartime shortage of stocking material, more women began to go bare-legged, leading to even more hair removal products and techniques. By the ’50s, shaving had become a more widely accepted practice. Tweezing and waxing also gained popularity in the following decades, and the rest, as they say, is hairless history.