@ZEPHYRA Why should shaving be the default setting? If the employer wants the models to shave, then the employer should say so.
I had my art classes on a college campus in Michigan in the 80s. Some of the models were the kind of women who either didn’t care about or deliberately rejected conventional standards of female appearance and grooming. Some were just plain ol’ Michigan gals who didn’t bother to shave their legs during the winter.
Once I was at a party and saw a small sculpture of a woman on the shelf. “Hey, that’s Billie!”, I said. The artist, who was standing nearby, was pleased to find that she had depicted the model well enough to be recognized. Really, though, it wasn’t hard; Billie’s robust, matronly, middle-aged form with the prominent caesarean scar was easily identifiable.
For more on models, see Daniel Clowes’s hilarious “Art School Confidential” comic (the comic on which the film was based).