2006-12-30 11:29:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Other - Skin & Body
nothing.
they wore hats and long sleeve dresses nomatter how hot it was outside.
2006-12-30 12:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by follow the yellow brick road:P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They use to believe that the lighter the skin you had the better you were. I know it sounds bad, but they thought that only poorer ppl were dark. Because the poorer ppl had to stay out in the sun and work and they got darker. Tans weren't in back then.
2006-12-30 11:32:33 · answer #2 · answered by Kreutzer 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They stayed out of the sun because it was fashionable to be fair skinned. That simple! And they powdered themselves.
I have never heard of anything being drunk to lighten skin tone. Don't see how that is possible.
2006-12-30 11:36:13 · answer #3 · answered by Marc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The makeup in that times was made of zinc and the fashionable drink was the tea from India.
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2006-12-30 11:34:21 · answer #4 · answered by Gabrio 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its not what they drank,They made sure they never felt the sun on their skin.Notice how their clothes covered them,and how they used a lot of rouge on their faces.
2006-12-30 11:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by siaosi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They used powder on their skin that contained arsenic. It would slowly kill them and as they got sicker and sicker they would get very pale
2006-12-30 11:32:23 · answer #6 · answered by Rhea B 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
tea.
they just never got out the house to get a tan.
they were housewives.
2006-12-30 12:04:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋