History of shaving for females?
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Apr 8, 2015
Raylene I.
So this dollar shave club post sent me to a blog post where a comment mentioned you can still buy the double edged safety razors many of our grandparents used in the fifties, then it made me wonder about women and when they started shaving and with what, turns out a special straight razor was also made for women out of a softer metal. Who knew. Anyway does anyone have any lovely information they'd love to share? Links or ideas? On when and why and how women started shaving?
Apr 8, 2015
M G.
This is intresting but I have no input lol. I do want to know about the shave club :-)
Apr 8, 2015
Raylene I.
I'm on my phone or I'd link it to you, but the post is called Dollar Shave Club ad I believe its in skincare :) I've chosen against it :) after the blog post comments
Apr 8, 2015
Raylene I.
Sorry Maria it's under hair lol.
Apr 8, 2015
M G.
Ok thanx Raylene I found it.
Apr 9, 2015
Marissa L.
So basically I believe it started in the 20s to 40s (not sure exactly when) during one of the world wars. reasoning was with all the men off at war, razor companies needed to sell their product to someone. so they made being hairless the ideal situation for women using propaganda and media (yay!) so women would buy razors. literally women shave because some old guys got mad they lost revenue.
Apr 9, 2015
Raylene I.
From what I've read through out the day it might have started because of a film star being hairless which was impressionable amongst the teens and younger women as well. But there are records through history, spotty at best, about ladies and men holding two shells together to pull out hairs well before Jesus was born.. And the more skin was shown the more likely the shave. So Victorian era not much showing, then the 20 flapper girls started shaving but to that point it was mainly proatitutes who shaved to show they didn't have body lice... Then as hemlines it shorter abd bathing suits turned bikinis more and more women shaved...
Apr 9, 2015
Raylene I.
I've been reading about this all day haha it fascinates me! Lol.
Apr 9, 2015
Roz X.
Excellent research, Raylene. Egyptians were known for their hair free havits. Indeed, it was fashion and commercial ads in conjunction with pin ups promoted by Hollywood that promoted hair removal. Often, it was tied into product placement and sales, as another member pointed out.
Apr 9, 2015
Roz X.
*habits
Apr 9, 2015
Breeze T.
I have the perfect video, it's very informative...and a bit silly! :) I watched this a long time ago!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPwbr5TK0rA
They explain it better than I could ever do so I'll leave it to them.
Apr 9, 2015
Raylene I.
Awe thanks for all the input ladies! I just thought this was an awesome topic for beauty that most of us (I know I had never even thought about it) do because it's just the norm and then I was like well why is it the norm and did women shave with straight razors or men's safety blades when did it become normal for females... Haha then I just went off on a tangent and researched old safety razors and such as that then watched a bunch of Nick Shaves YouTube videos Bahaha anyway thanks for all your input and the video link Breeze I'll deffinently look at that!
Apr 9, 2015
Breeze T.
Let me know if it gave you some insight, I love Stuff Mom Never Told You!
Apr 9, 2015
Raylene I.
I opened it in the app and couldn't scroll to the comments I'd love to read them and I just about peed at pit beard hahaha
Apr 9, 2015
Raylene I.
Here's a link to a thesis paper about it too! It's long though haha
http://history.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/kirstenhansenthesis.pdf