I agree, I think it’s in part due to tobacco smoking being popular back then and “youth fashions” being less extreme, especially in the 40s and 50s. I also think we now associate the curled bob hairstyles popular in those decades with older women, thus we register young women in 65-80 year old photos as older.
This is just speculation but I get the impression that young people in the 40s, 50s and early 60s wanted to be seen as older and gain the respect associated with maturity. I don’t think it was cool to be young in the same way it is today.
Young adults use to look older
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I agree, I think it’s in part due to tobacco smoking being popular back then and “youth fashions” being less extreme, especially in the 40s and 50s. I also think we now associate the curled bob hairstyles popular in those decades with older women, thus we register young women in 65-80 year old photos as older.
This is just speculation but I get the impression that young people in the 40s, 50s and early 60s wanted to be seen as older and gain the respect associated with maturity. I don’t think it was cool to be young in the same way it is today.
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