Anecdotally, my father claims that a little body odor was much more socially acceptable when he was growing up in north Texas during the 50s and 60s (consider t

Anecdotally, my father claims that a little body odor was much more socially acceptable when he was growing up in north Texas during the 50s and 60s (consider that climate and the typical clothes that an adult would wear out of the house during that time). My mother, meanwhile, is Vietnamese and wears no deodorant at all. In fact, I was surprised to see no discussion at all of Asian Americans; east Asians generally have fewer apocrine glands and thus less body odor.