So out of curiosity, I decided to look up the history of women and shaving. It was an interesting find. You see all these movies of women in the middle ages with clean shaved bodies. The idea that French women not shaving is an oddity is actually a new idea. Women have been shaving their underarms for right around 100 years, and their legs for less, only since the 40's. This is due to the fact that women were always so covered up that nobody saw the "objectionable hair". The naughty bits however have been groomed for hundreds of years in some regions. Muslim women traditional removed the hair the night before their wedding, and then would continue the practice after marriage.
Regardless of the fact that general hair removal wasn't common practice until the 20th century, the practices came with the change in attire. Clothing that showed the hairy parts of women is what motivated the trend. In SotE things are hardly realistic, and I have no objections to hair removal (not that my opinion matters), but I thought I'd share this discovery with everyone.
Oh, Aeyt, you always come up with such interesting things...
Quote from: Aeytrious on November 05, 2014, 08:05:14 AM
The idea that French women not shaving is an oddity is actually a new idea.
The idea that European women by and large don't shave is also a weird, American myth.
I also like that you flagged this with an "important exclamation point!" button. :P
I just like to not have all my posts use the same icon all the time. gotta mix it up.
You sure it wasn't women being jealous that blondies appeared to have 'no leg hair'? XD
jk, but yeah, lol, fascinating, Aeyt, fascinating 8D
I recently did research on primitive dental care too
they had way better teeth on average than we do now. we have so much crap in our food that it kills our teeth. I love learning these random things.
One sure finds interesting things while being 'productive'... yeah productive... hah hah hah...
I don't think our SotE characters have such awesome teeth, tho. at least definitely not those that live in Connlaoth and can afford buying the wonderful cakes *_*
Actually all this stuff is really awesome to know and relevant at least in part to a medieval setting, even with magic involved. Nice work, Aeyt!
A little bump for those new to the site and new to medieval settings.