Laura Fitzachary
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first heard Aug 2026
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Brendan O'Connor · “People used tea bags and gravy browning to tan their legs!” · 8 Aug 2026
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Good afternoon, Brendan.
Thanks for having me on.
Oh absolutely.
Historically speaking, really you don't really get tan as something that is kind of uh much more popular until around the nineteen twenties onwards.
But that's because clothing changes significantly.
Before that though, yeah, paleness and journey to be as pale as possible is something that was absolutely um um I suppose kind of what what people were striving for.
So they put this
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So you would find even from the nineteenth century, even from the eighteenth century, you'll find beauty models and advice columns which are suggesting how you can get how you can remove tan, how you can whiten and lighten the skin as much as you can in order to be as pale as possible.
So that comes into the 1920s.
And of course, we're looking at this from a very westernized point of view of beauty.
And of course, when you're looking at the shift in tanning, it's coming out of Europe at the time.
It's usually correlated with or usually conflated, I should I should say, probably with Chanel and this idea of uh creating sun creams and sun lotions to embrace tanning.
Actually, there was other things.
It's a bit of a myth.
Um, there was a few French designers actually at the time who were creating sun creams and sun lotions.
The likes of Jean Pateau actually better to it and created uh sun oils by 1928.
And she had her full line of sun tanning oils and lotions by the 1930s.
But what is happening is that the likes of Chanel, the likes of Pateau, they're creating clothing that is much more
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