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    So I was watching an older episode of friends the other day, as well as some movies from the late 90's and I noticed that all the actors and actresses weren't tanned like it seems everyone is today. I graduated high school in 03, but when I was in high school I didn't really care about the trends so I don't remember if it was as trendy to be tanned back then as it is now. It wasn't till I started dancing in 04 that I became introduced to this tanning obsession.
    So when did tanning become so "in" like it is presently?

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    oh no I meant to post this in the lounge....oops!

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    I remember everyone obessesed in high school, going to the same upscale tanning salon and them having a line up after school. I would say this was in 99-00, since I clearly remember this before graduating. I graduated in 01.

    I think the tanning craze has really died down now, actually. Even Paris wasn't that tan at the VMA's.

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    i graduated in 03 and i tanned throughout high school too.

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    I graduated in '02 and I started tanning in the 10th grade. I didn't do it all the time, but I did it more in the spring and fall than other parts of the year. Pretty much all the cheerleader/majorette/popular girls tanned, but my dorky ass tanned too.

    I look like the walking dead if I am not tanned in some way.

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    I graduated in '91...we laid out in the sun in the summer..but I dont remember there being such things as tanning salons then. Maybe there were..but they just wernet popular. But it was 2000 before I first set foot in one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cameron_keys View Post
    I graduated in '91...we laid out in the sun in the summer..but I dont remember there being such things as tanning salons then. Maybe there were..but they just wernet popular. But it was 2000 before I first set foot in one.
    Yeah, there were tanning salons. But I only remember girls going before the prom. Everybody laid out every day after school back then. I didn't start tanning till about '96 or '97, though, I was too chicken because of this story about a girl having a cerebral hemmorage that floated around school.

    BTW, thanks for posting. All these grad dates were really making me feel old. I graduated in '93, but I was only 17.

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    I remember often waiting for a friend outside of tanning salons many a time from '01-'02. I graduated in '01 & some of the girls were into it, but not the majority.

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    I honestly think tanning has been "in" for long before we were born. my mother has stories (and the wrinkles) to prove it. she was hardcore! she used to lay out in the sun...with mirrors!

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    When my mom danced when I was a kid she tanned at a salon.

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    I think its been in for a while but the difference is that its possible for all really white people to look very tanned now where as it wasnt 20+ years ago, less than that even.

    Fake tanning has come a long way since the 80s when I was a teen. I have never needed obviously as I is black, but I remember friends trying to achieve a tan and some of the awful or failed results!

    Its been within the last 10 years that Ive seen young white people walking around with even tanned skin darker than mine though! Prior to that I would only ever see the really dark tans on older white people who has spent a couple of decades baking in the sun.

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    I graduated 95. Most of the people in my youth did it at the beach or using the sun. Solariums were around yet not really as easily accessible (or popular) back then from my memory.


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    Tanning became "in" when peasent woman went to work in factories and they went pale. The aristocratic woman needed a way to distinguish themselves, and thus started tanning

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    Most lately, Marilyn Monroe and Brigit Bardot. I think the first time tanned skin became popular was in 1920s with Coco Chanel. Since then it's sort of come and gone but it's always been in fashion more or less. Now with the popularity of fake tans people are getting darker and darker it seems.

    I remember my mum using tanning beds when I wasn't even in school yet so it must've been very late 80s or possibly 1990. Then again she worked out a lot back then and tan has always been in amongst body builders. Makes you look more toned.
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    I always thought that tanning was sometimes a regional thing...I think in certain parts of the US and other parts of the world tanning is more "in" than other places. However I totally agree that tanning makes you look more toned and fit so I can see the temptation. I was a 2000 grad at a HS in Southern California. I remember most of the "popular" girls were actually pretty pale. I went to sort of an of beat school though. I remeber seeing tanning boths when I was 11 or 12 but I didn't go to one until I was 21. When I go to get mystic tans from time to time now I see little girls that look no older than 10-12 laying in tanning bed...
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    I'm from the South and I graduated in '02 and I remember all the preppy girls who would go tanning on the regular. There was one girl in particular who use to go tanning like 3 or 4 times a week every week. I heard that she still does this. So I can not wait to go to my 10 year high school reunion because I'm sure that by then she'll end up looking like a leather handbag.

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    I was not aloud to tan until i turned 18 but alot of girls did there was popular girl at school that was orange yes orange i will never forget it she was to popular to notice but she did get laughed at for that.

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    Ava I think so too. When I lived in NC, EVERYONE went tanning. Then I moved back to the northeast, everyone looked pasty to me. It was hard for me to get used to the look again.

    I forget who made the comment on the peasant women working in factories but YES, I think you're right. Same thought - When poor people worked the land they would get tan, so it was important for the aristocrats to stay as pale as possible.

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    I always thought that tanning was sometimes a regional thing...I think in certain parts of the US and other parts of the world tanning is more "in" than other places. However I totally agree that tanning makes you look more toned and fit so I can see the temptation. I was a 2000 grad at a HS in Southern California. I remember most of the "popular" girls were actually pretty pale. I went to sort of an of beat school though. I remeber seeing tanning boths when I was 11 or 12 but I didn't go to one until I was 21. When I go to get mystic tans from time to time now I see little girls that look no older than 10-12 laying in tanning bed...

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    Laying out to tan was huge in the '80s, then it kinda was an "eh whatever" thing for a while... I remember folks goin nuts over tanning booths in um... the late '90s? Perhaps '96 and onward.... then it just exploded.
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    Tying in with balletbaby and ahmeera's comments about idustrialization forcing peasants to be indoors and pale, and the upper classes needing a new distinction....

    There was also the rise of the wealthy "traveling the world" and country clubs, athletic involvement/instruction... It wasnt just a "need to be different" it was a "I'm so tan because I just got back from a safari in africa with the in-laws and am going out to the club for swimming and tennis lessons later in our families vacation home" Being tan showed/shows that you have time away from making money to BE outdoors, not in an office or factory.

    Kindof a funny trend. I always wondered WHERE the FUCK these kids were getting their money for manicures, tanning, etc. from. I used to know a girl who was 14, and already doing the weekly acrylic manicure and pedicure thing. I knew her parents WERENT that rich.

    I guess i'm too much of a pennypincher to understand it.

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