I was looking through my father’s Boy Scout handbook from the mid-1950’s and noticed the section on personal hygiene. It stated that ideally a boy should bathe twice a week and shampoo his hair once a week. On old TV shows and movies, women went to the hairdresser to get their hair washed and set not more often than every one or two weeks. Today Americans would consider this standard of cleanliness very lax to downright disgusting. Almost all younger Americans shower or bathe every day or every other day now. Why did the standard of cleanliness swing so drastically toward the obsessive side in the United States? During what time period did most of this change occur?
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