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[quote=Anonymous]Did they really look “older” or are they just in styles of clothing and hair that are indicative, to us, of “old people?” People don’t tend to change much from what they wore when they were younger, so the clothing styles of, say, the 1940s and 50s, were seen on older women through the 1970s+ even as the “current fashion” changed considerably.

But if you took someone like my grandmother who was born in the 1920s and held on to that 1940s and 1950s fashion all her life, and transported, say, 70 year old her into the present day and dressed her like 70 year olds now - in jeans or pants, sneakers, and a zip-up sweatshirt jacket - and hair down and natural and not the “wash and set curls” - what would she look like? I think there would still be some different signs of age, namely her teeth weren’t that great as dental care was an issue for a lot of people of her generation when they were growing up. But overall I think we think people “look older” because they are dressed in the fashion of the time.

Gen Z says that about Millennials too, when they see our yearbook pics it’s “oh they look so old.” Because a lot of Millennials still, more or less, wear their hair and clothes kind of like they did in HS and now your average 17 year old associates those looks with their late 30s neighbors/teachers/relatives/etc. But to us, we look at our old yearbook pictures and just see teens. [/quote]

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