In 1915, Gillette released an ad of a woman wearing a sleeveless dress. This was the new style, and society decided that women needed hairless armpits to go with them. Gillette’s Milady Décolleté became the first razor marketed to women; one million were sold by 1917. See article
In year 5 a boy saw sunlight glistening off the hair above my lip and my arms. Him and his friends teased me. I borrowed my mum’s razor that night and shaved my face, arms and legs. In the summer my hair always grows way quicker. It seemed like I spent every day plucking the hair joining my eyebrows. I got lazy and swiped a razor down that gap too. My eyebrows were too far apart for months but at least they were apart.
