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“People used tea bags and gravy browning to tan their legs!”

From Coco Chanel introducing tanning as a style statement to the war effort of mimicking nylons with teabags, fake tan has always been in vogue. Beauty and fashion historian Laura Fitzachary joins Brendan to give a potted history of fake tan and why Irish people are its biggest fans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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