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From: guzy@hao.UUCP (Christine Guzy)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: hair
Message-ID: <616@hao.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 11:16:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: hao.616
Posted: Wed Aug 31 11:16:33 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Sep-83 07:35:32 EDT
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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I was told by my mother and grandmother that women started shaving
their legs because of the nylon shortage during WWII.  When nylons were
scarce, women would shave their legs and wear leg make-up, drawing
lines up the backs of their legs for seams!