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  2. History of removal of leg and underarm hair in the United States

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    The removal of armpit and leg hair by American women became a new practice in the early 20th century due to a confluence of multiple factors. One cultural change was the definition of femininity. In the Victorian era, it was based on moral character. This shifted in the early 1920s when the new feminine idea became based on the body. [4]

  3. Underarm hair - Wikipedia

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    Underarm or axillary hair goes through four stages of development, driven by weak androgens produced by the adrenal in males and females during adrenarche, and testosterone from the testicle in males during puberty. [2] The importance of human underarm hair is unclear. It may naturally wick sweat or other moisture away from the skin, aiding ...

  4. Pubic hair - Wikipedia

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    Pubic hair (or pubes / ˈ p j uː b iː z /, / p j uː b z /) is terminal body hair that is found in the genital area and pubic region of adolescent and adult humans. The hair is located on and around the sex organs, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the thighs, even extending down the perineum, and to the anal region.

  5. Pigtail Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    The Pigtail Ordinance was an 1873 law intended to force prisoners in San Francisco, California to have their hair cut within an inch of the scalp. It affected Qing Chinese prisoners in particular, as it meant they would have their queue, a waist-long, braided pigtail, cut off. The proposal passed by a narrow margin through the San Francisco ...

  6. Pinkerton (detective agency) - Wikipedia

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    pinkerton.com. Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

  7. Police uniforms in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal law prohibits the sale or purchase of counterfeit police badges [9] and many states have laws regulating the wearing of metallic badges by persons other than law enforcement. Florida, for instance, prohibits unauthorized persons from wearing or displaying badges if their wear or display would be likely to deceive someone.

  8. Hair removal - Wikipedia

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    Hair removal is the deliberate removal of body hair or head hair. This process is also known as epilatio or depilation. Hair is a common feature of the human body, exhibiting considerable variation in thickness and length across different populations. Hair becomes more visible during and after puberty. Additionally, men typically exhibit ...

  9. Emily Ratajkowski shows off armpit hair in new photoshoot for ...

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    Emily Ratajkowski knows how to make a feminist statement, whether it's on the red carpet, protesting (and getting arrested) in Washington D.C. and even in photoshoots.. The model has most recently ...