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Subject: Re: Conforming (Shaving Leg Hair)
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 09:24:58 EDT
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> Re: Conforming (Shaving Leg Hair)____________________________________________
> 
>> All the women I have ever spoken who thought [leaving legs unshaved] not very
>> important had light coloured leg hair.  Mine is reasonably thick dark brown.
> 
> 	In _Femininity_, Susan Brownmiller offers her solution:  she dyes her
> leg hair a light color and doesn't shave it off.
> 	My S.O. has dark leg hair.  She lets it grow for most of the year, but
> in the summer she shaves them.  Maybe this year she'll try Brownmiller's
> method.

Wouldn't dying (or, more likely, bleaching) it be more hassle and,
perhaps, more potentially dangerous (eg sensitivity to the chemicals,
etc.) than shaving it?

Best,

Charlie