Female armpit shaving – or “the art of body shaming the ladies”

Ever wonder why society as a whole expect the ladies to shave their pits?

It’s all down to body shaming – even if the term wasn’t invented back in 1915 when an advert appered in Harper’s Bazaar:

I found a short story over at the Metro about it, linking me to a short YouTube video… fairly informative if short.

So remember; guys started shaving because of wide spread military service during the Great War (and the requirement to use respirators), women started because society body shamed them into it….

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