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I look at pictures of high schoolers from the 50's, and they look like old people to me. Maybe women's hairstyles were all short back then and this is the main reason why. It's sad how little in common their generation has with the young people of today. I think the teens of today will never really get old, and the baby boomers were the generation that thought they were the first "cool" generation, but now a lot of them seem old anyway.
Everyone aged quicker in those days. It wasn't just looks but also actions. Many people got married right after high school so they had to grow up quickly. Women had children very young so it was common to be quite matronly by time they were 30 or so.
The amazing thing to me now is to see how many women past thirty wear their hair like you would expect teens to wear. I think that looks sloppy and unkempt.
I look at pictures of high schoolers from the 50's, and they look like old people to me. Maybe women's hairstyles were all short back then and this is the main reason why. It's sad how little in common their generation has with the young people of today. I think the teens of today will never really get old, and the baby boomers were the generation that thought they were the first "cool" generation, but now a lot of them seem old anyway.
Hmmmmm. I was looking at my high school yearbook just a few days ago, and once again I was struck with how incredibly young and square we looked - 1956 in this case. I do notice that more girls wore hair styles that were quite similar to what their middle aged mothers were wearing, but they look so out of place with the young face below the dowdy hairdo.
I think today's high school seniors look like young people in their twenties oftentimes, and they dress in much more stylish clothing. There is often an assertive, self-confident look about them that I do not see in the faces in my yearbook - we look rather vacuous.
You may be right about today's teens never getting old. I worked in advertising in the early 60's and the "youth market" was limited to high school kids. I have younger friends in advertising today and they say that "youth market" advertising is aimed to a gamut that runs from high schoolers to people in their mid-twenties.
"It's sad how little in common their generation has with the young people of today."
I wonder if I understand this comment. Because all I can think of is "Why is it sad?" Teenagers of the Fifties have lived half a century of life, good grief! I would hope that they would have so much more in their lives that they would not have a great deal in common with young people of today....it would be pathetic if they had stayed stuck in some "Youth Culture" groove all that time. And most young people have a herd mentality, whereas older people have time to give much of that mentality up and break out onto many different, idiosyncratic and personal trajectories as they are exposed to more and more of life.
Hmmmmm. I was looking at my high school yearbook just a few days ago, and once again I was struck with how incredibly young and square we looked - 1956 in this case. I do notice that more girls wore hair styles that were quite similar to what their middle aged mothers were wearing, but they look so out of place with the young face below the dowdy hairdo.
I think today's high school seniors look like young people in their twenties oftentimes, and they dress in much more stylish clothing. There is often an assertive, self-confident look about them that I do not see in the faces in my yearbook - we look rather vacuous.
You may be right about today's teens never getting old. I worked in advertising in the early 60's and the "youth market" was limited to high school kids. I have younger friends in advertising today and they say that "youth market" advertising is aimed to a gamut that runs from high schoolers to people in their mid-twenties.
"It's sad how little in common their generation has with the young people of today."
I wonder if I understand this comment. Because all I can think of is "Why is it sad?" Teenagers of the Fifties have lived half a century of life, good grief! I would hope that they would have so much more in their lives that they would not have a great deal in common with young people of today....it would be pathetic if they had stayed stuck in some "Youth Culture" groove all that time. And most young people have a herd mentality, whereas older people have time to give much of that mentality up and break out onto many different, idiosyncratic and personal trajectories as they are exposed to more and more of life.
Re the bolded--good catch. In the fifties, girls were still setting their hair in rollers and using hairspray to hold their 'dos. Vidal Sassoon, who died last week, changed all that in the 1960's with "wash-and-wear" hairstyles for women. You were looking at a huge cultural change in your yearbook!
Living in the '50s seems like it must have been uncomfortable. What a hassle just to go out of the house looking "presentable".
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