back around 1910-20, my grandmother would do farmwork like chopping cotton with long, opaque socks pulled up over her arms and always wore a poke bonnet lest a little sun get to her and mar her pale skin. She never had much pigment anyway, but she was considered lucky to have pale and freckle-free skin....
Don't know what the fascination with milk white skin is in the northern hemisphere is...but it goes around the globe, not just Europe and north America, but even Japan. Every country where this is a truth had potions and lotions to bleach out skin, and if that didn't work, well, there was always paint.
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Date: 2010-03-03 03:23 am (UTC)Don't know what the fascination with milk white skin is in the northern hemisphere is...but it goes around the globe, not just Europe and north America, but even Japan. Every country where this is a truth had potions and lotions to bleach out skin, and if that didn't work, well, there was always paint.
Bleh.