The Bride In Red
Have I ever told you about where the tradition of hair removal on women comes from?
In early European times, when people only lived typically into their late 30s or early 40s men who owned any land, estate, or holdings, etc needed an heir to pass on their legacy. The mortality rate among women in childbirth was high. As soon as a girl started menstruating she was considered to be eligible for marriage. Usually with the onset of puberty came body hair.
In order to make girls more attractive if they weren't married off yet, they began removing body hair to hide their true age and make them appear younger, hence more attractive as a prospective child bearing wife. Also the reason sometimes for the large number of children if the wife survived each, until a male was produced. This is also where the erasing of the girls last name and adding the name of the "man of the house" or...
In early European times, when people only lived typically into their late 30s or early 40s men who owned any land, estate, or holdings, etc needed an heir to pass on their legacy. The mortality rate among women in childbirth was high. As soon as a girl started menstruating she was considered to be eligible for marriage. Usually with the onset of puberty came body hair.
In order to make girls more attractive if they weren't married off yet, they began removing body hair to hide their true age and make them appear younger, hence more attractive as a prospective child bearing wife. Also the reason sometimes for the large number of children if the wife survived each, until a male was produced. This is also where the erasing of the girls last name and adding the name of the "man of the house" or...