Is it my imagination or did people in the past look older at a younger age?

[tamiznluv]

Originally Posted by laorbust61

No, it's not your imagination. Back then youth viewed adults as good role models and so sought to emulate them in the hairstyles, dress, mannerisms, etc. This tended to make them look older.

Then the 70's hit with the catch phrase, "Never trust anyone over 30." This desire to emulate adults sort of took a powder and youth became very individualistic in expressing their "freedom" and began wearing clothes that heralded their group as counter-culture and in some cases, revolutionary. The wore their hair long and wild and free, unkempt, looking as though they were children, out all day, playing. Some even wore flowers in their hair. Males and females did this. It was almost as if they were playing dress up again as they did as children with the leather, beads, fringes, and distressed denim, and rainbow colors in their fashion choices. Then there was the hard and acid rock movement that spoke of renouncing the establishment values their parents had embraced a generation before.

Now we have a generation that, fashion-wise, appears to be attracted to conservatism again, and they express this in their style of dress also.

Are you speaking of the present younger generation or us older former "flower power" kids?

I love wearing my tie-dyed tee shirts I bought in the Bahamas and the smiles I get. LOL I have no shame being the "kid" I once was sometimes.

[Riverboat Gambler]

Don't ask me...I looked 21 when I was about 16.

[sunkisses87]

This thread is kind of funny, because most people think I'm 20, and I'm actually 26 with a child... I feel like I dress my age, and I act my age, so I don't know how to look like a "26 year old" lol.