Everyone is so pale
Even though I've watched this film (several times) before it just struck me this time.
shareThey're white and live in Chicago, what did you expect?
shareThis is true and it's supposed to be winter. But these days I suspect all the white actors would be wearing some kind of light tan foundation (if that's the correct term) and be filmed differently.
shareIt's that stupid California Tan that's become super-popular again.
shareYes. I watched How Do You Know last night. It 9 years old now but made 15 years after WYWS. It's set in New York yet everyone had had light glowing tans - which just looked wrong once I started to notice it.
shareIt's worse when you see people with tans on a "historical" tv show or movie. It's like....don't those idiots who made the show/movie know that only peasants were tanned in that era? Pale skin was highly prized by the aristocracy before the 20th century. Anyone among them who got a tan (particularly a woman) would be told she looked slavish and common, which isn't a complement.
shareThey're white and live in Chicago, what did you expect?
LOL! Didn't notice. Y'all look pale to me! share
There's nothing wrong with being pale. It means we won't die as fast because we're not subjecting our skin to the sun 16 hours a day and getting skin cancer as fast as possible. Plus, skin ages faster when you tan all the time. We have certain people in the South that we like to call "lizard ladies," who have skin like old leather, bleached, frizzy hair, look twice as old as they actually are, who wear too much eye makeup, and look worn out. I'll take being pale over looking like that in the future any day of the week.
shareBack in the late 70s, my buddies and I from college went to Rhode Island to hit the beach, and we were stunned at how many white women in their 40s or 50s looked like they were made from beef jerky.
Sun is murder on light skin, but actually I use sun block despite my dark complexion.
That's smart. You are doing the right thing, protecting your skin with sunblock.
shareCombine tanning with smoking and you hi from beef jerky to shoe leather—leather for cheap shoes, not for Italian or Swiss shoes.
shareIn the '60s and '70s in southern California we didn't buy sun screen, we bought stuff that we coated ourselves with to speed up and enhance tanning. We "laid out" on the beach for hours and hours, burned, peeled, and had deep tans. Those were the days! But I'd probably look ten years younger today if I hadn't done that.
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