The root of obsession

Sometimes the joy of the Internet is doing "quick" research on something and then being led to something else. Don't ask me why this tidbit I ran across on Wikipedia fascinates me, but it does:

While American visitors were largely responsible for making summer the high season on the Riviera, a French fashion designer, Coco Chanel, was responsible for making sunbathing fashionable. She acquired a striking tan during the summer of 1923, and tans immediately became the fashion in Paris.

So that's how it all started ...