Up until the 1920’s, being pale skinned was the fashionable complextion. It demonstrated that a person did not work in menial labor out of doors. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the working class labored in factories. The attraction of the outdoors to the wealthy came into vogue. It is said that Coco Chanel accidently got tanned while on a yacht and started the tanned look as a fashion.
There were others that promoted exposure to the sun not as fashionable but as beneficial to one’s health:
In 1903 Dr Auguste Rollier opened the world's first dedicated sun clinic, at Leysin, high in the Swiss Alps. He was convinced that the pure air and bright sunlight could cure diseases, most particularly forms of external (that is, nonpulmonary) tuberculosis, which were usually treated, often unsuccessfully, with surgery.
In 1903, the Danish physician Niels Ryburg Finsen was awarded the Nobel prize for his use of artificial sunlight to cure lupus vulgaris (tuberculosis of the skin). And John Harvey Kellogg (of breakfast cereal and Road to Wellville fame) claims to have employed sun baths “under medical supervision” at his famous Battle Creek Sanitarium as early as 1876.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3814579.ece
The Nudists
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The first lotion to treat sunburn was patented in 1892 in New Zealand.
The importance of preventing sunburn in children is heightened by the fact that a single severe sunburn episode in childhood doubles the likelihood of melanoma (skin cancer) in adulthood.
Many people either do not believe this fact or do not know it.
http://dermatology.cdlib.org/141/commentary/sunburn/wagner.html
http://www.skincancer.org/Sunburn/
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