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[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]Yomiuri: Shufu no Tomo women's mag to be discontinued
The long-established women's magazine "Shufu no Tomo" (Homemakers' Friend) will stop publication after its June issue, ending its 91-year history due to declining circulation and diversifying readership and lifestyles. Since first being published in February 1917, the monthly magazine has provided information for daily life and cultural pieces, gaining popularity as one of the four major women's periodicals in the nation. Shufu no Tomo was the last such magazine to remain on the market after the other three discontinued publishing one after another in the 1980s and '90s. The magazine has also been on the leading edge of Japanese women's lifestyle topics, with a wide range of contents, and was quick to feature such issues as women's participation in society and their right to vote in the Taisho era (1912-1926).

1954 Edition below:

[Mulboyne]

Here's a piece from a 1942 Shufo no Tomo showing a young bride how to shave off her peach fuzz:

[succubusqueen]

Isn't there a chinese traditional way of depilation..using strings? it has become popular nowadays...

[Greji]

Isn't there a chinese traditional way of depilation..using strings? it has become popular nowadays...

Just for you Succubusqueen, ya just jumps in and gets plucked clean:

Guangzhou Depilation machine
Description:

"......It has three models large, medium-sized, and small size, it can depilate off the chook, duck, and goose automatic after slaughters, It can take off all the feather soft fur, claw and epidermis dirt once only, Also can use for and take off ginger skin, take off garlic skin agricultural product, make you from tired craft work free out of the dirty. This machine is operated simply, save labour, save time, Working efficiency is equivalent to more than ten personal hand labour. The appreciation of every hotel, the meal hall and processing of farm products one deeply.
Be careful: This utensil can't have water nozzles that are washed directly...."

[Charles]

Isn't there a chinese traditional way of depilation..using strings? it has become popular nowadays...

I think you're referring to "threading." It appears to have originated in India, according to the authoritative websites of random strangers on the internet.