History shows that the fashion for tanned skin was becoming stronger when we started showing consecutive body parts. At the beginning of the 20th century, women still bathed (if they decided to behave in such an extreme way at all) in long dresses and bloomers, and when they came out of water, their female servants covered their wet-clothed bodies with bed sheets. On sunny days, ladies wore gloves, hats, and were carrying umbrellas to avoid any contact of sun…