Why do the shirtless units shave their bodies?

[TWFanatic]

This strikes me as being of dubious historicity.

[Foot]

Celts shaved all their body hair. There are some Iberian units and Germanic units with body hair. However most likely reason is that body hair is bloody difficult to look good when doing a skinning job, probably.

Foot

[TWFanatic]

Celts shaved all their body hair.

Interesting, I have never heard this before. I would most appreciate it if you could direct me to a source so that I may educate myself.

[Mediolanicus]

Interesting, I never heard before.

I can't help you with sources, but if you've never heard that before, you really must start to read your EB building descriptions more thoroughly. :p

[Recoil]

Celts shaved all their body hair.

As far as I know Foot's right here, although most Celts kept their facial hair as it was sign of masculinity (irony )

[mucky305]

Yeah, it was called a Gaulish wax. It was a sign of manliness not to whine as it was done either, especially when the hair in the butt crack was ripped out. An old woman was charged with the duty and usually had too much eye makeup and teased hair. Her name would always be Lavernicus.

[Moros]

Any book, doesn't have to be an academic one, about celts will confirm the fact they shave. So if you are interested in celtic culture I'd say try one of the books posted in the EB bibliography.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Celts have always been dubious to me and now I know why.

[Maeran]

because they use soap and soap related products? (varying strengths of lye) yes, very dubious.

Even the hair on models' heads is difficult to get it to look good. Even at the resolutions of M2TW, I personally doubt that normal amounts of hair would show up as more than a slight darkening of the overall skin tone. Anything more would look like a comedy rug.

[Megas Methuselah]

Yeah, you're right. From far away, it would either look like a shirt, dirt, or nothing.

because they use soap and soap related products?

They sure knew how to impress their women, alright. In some ways, they were very modern in their outlook. Compare that to the Romans, who for a long time widely saw soap as immoral(right?), and avoided it. CA sure did a good job in completely portraying the Celts as something they were not...

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

because they use soap and soap related products? (varying strengths of lye) yes, very dubious.

Because they shaved their body hair. That means they are almost as perverse as Egyptians.

Soap was first used by Germans. Soap is fantastic! Soap means you can keep a manly appearance and don't have to stink like a Roman at the same time.

[TWFanatic]

Any book, doesn't have to be an academic one, about celts will confirm the fact they shave. So if you are interested in celtic culture I'd say try one of the books posted in the EB bibliography.

Shaving is quite different from shaving your entire body. I will take your advice though and check out the Celtic section in the EB Bibliography.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Yeah, it was called a Gaulish wax. It was a sign of manliness not to whine as it was done either, especially when the hair in the butt crack was ripped out. An old woman was charged with the duty and usually had too much eye makeup and teased hair. Her name would always be Lavernicus.

Steve Carell in 40 Year Old Virgin would be a horrible Gaul then, lol.

[TWFanatic]

Courtesy of Prometheus:

[Moros]

They did shave their bodies though. Prometheus is/was a great artist. But historically he's not correct here.