Hair today ...

I agree with Shazia Mirza that there's something worrying about "society's requirement for adult women to remove the body hair that proclaims them sexually mature adults, and turn themselves into facsimiles of pre-pubertal girls" (How I learned to love my hairy bits, G2, February 14). It was precisely this worry which led many women of my generation to refuse to shave or wax our adult body hair. Sadly I did not persuade my daughters to follow suit and they duly spend time and money on depilation. They have grown up in an era when fashion is given extraordinary importance, even in the serious papers, with countless column inches and pages of photographs devoted to how we "should" look. The debate about thin models appears to be closely related to the same requirement for women to masquerade as little girls. Can't the fashion world cope with the idea of adult women in all our glorious and hirsute shapes and sizes?
Kate Enright
Lyme Regis, Dorset