Winter leg warmers
A couple of weeks ago I had a fairly nasty accident. I was walking over to my best friends’ house next door to borrow the hand-saw to cut the bottom of the Christmas tree.
Just then, Tommy decided to kick the front door shut because I had left it open and it was cold.
Blam.
He didn’t know my fingers were in the front door.
He quickly wrapped my bleeding fingers up in gauze and we spent the next two hours in the emergency room where I got six stitches.
There was nothing funny about the incident.
However, almost two weeks have passed now and I have not had to do the dishes.
In the meantime, I tried to keep the gash clean and dry, including an elaborate system of wrapping it in plastic grocery bags while I took a shower.
Needless to say, one-handed shaving was cumbersome. Being as it is winter, I let things go.
I’ve been shaving my legs since I was about 14 years old.
In the winter I’m not a slave to this habit, as I wear black tights when I wear skirts in the winter. But after about a week the leg hairs were getting fairly long.
Tommy didn’t really notice because I wear long johns to bed when it’s cold.
Now the finger is mostly healed and the only signs that there was an injury are a bandage on the left middle finger and dirty dishes in the sink.
Hopefully, I will not have another injury any time soon and will not have another physical reason not to shave my legs. I’m curious to see what they look like when fully grown.
Tommy really didn’t notice the new leg warmers until I mentioned it to him. However, when asked his opinion he said he hoped I would get back with the program really soon.
I bet there are a large percentage of female friends who choose not to shave their legs, for whatever reasons, and it just hasn’t been a topic of conversation.
So I think I’ll let it go just a bit longer and see what they look like full-grown, maybe even until Valentine’s Day.
According to a Web search, shaving one’s legs is common in the United States and England, but not much of the rest of the world.
In the United States, women were pretty much covered up for much of history. Around 1915 an advertisement campaign began in Harper’s Bazaar magazine with a woman in a toga-like outfit posed with her arms above her head revealing shaved armpits.
The text read:
“Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair.'
By 1922 the Sears Roebuck catalog was pitching depilatories and women’s razors, along with sleeveless dresses.
Joila.
A whole new reason for women to feel self conscious about their bodies was born.
A couple of decades later and American women were regularly shaving their legs as well.
Comments
sorry to hear about your finger...not fun having stitches...now that the rains are going to flood much of the valley floor, what are your thoughts on the beaver dam prior to the rains, during and after all the mayhem???
REPLY: I hear that beavers are among the most resourceful of animals. Their usefulness to humans, however, has been lessened by their reluctance to be trained by humans to take part in fun pranks such as damming up the fountain at City Plaza or building a dam across the log ride at Marriott's Great America.
For that reasons, government officials will likely just tell the beavers to move on.
Posted by: steve | January 2, 2008 10:38 PM
Even though we both have different views about the City Plaza, it would be fun to help dam the log ride at Great America. Any news on the beaver dam? Do they have power to continue building? Now the chicken is retired, will the beavers recruit him?
Posted by: Steve | January 9, 2008 10:31 AM