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I'm in high school now and I've looked at yearbooks of my school from various decades as well as my parents yearbooks and the teenagers looked extremely old. My parents both went to school in the 70s and they certainly didn't look like me at 16. I look at the faces of the teenagers in the yearbooks and they could easily pass for a 40 year old even 50 year old if they look really old (which a lot do). Every other guy had a mustache and a lot even had beards and the girls looked like middle aged women. I know they had different hairstyles and wore different clothes them but they just had faces that didn't look youthful at all. Teenagers now look so much younger than teenagers of any other generation. I noticed that teenagers now are much shorter and look much younger. I'd say a lot of teens now could pass for 10-12 year olds. It's quite strange how teens didn't start looking young until about the mid 90s. Does anyone have a logical explanation for all of this?
they were fit and did adult stuff like work, that will make you look older. also they tried to dress and act like adults, you know, crazy stuff like that.
I'm in high school now and I've looked at yearbooks of my school from various decades as well as my parents yearbooks and the teenagers looked extremely old. My parents both went to school in the 70s and they certainly didn't look like me at 16. I look at the faces of the teenagers in the yearbooks and they could easily pass for a 40 year old even 50 year old if they look really old (which a lot do). Every other guy had a mustache and a lot even had beards and the girls looked like middle aged women. I know they had different hairstyles and wore different clothes them but they just had faces that didn't look youthful at all. Teenagers now look so much younger than teenagers of any other generation. I noticed that teenagers now are much shorter and look much younger. I'd say a lot of teens now could pass for 10-12 year olds. It's quite strange how teens didn't start looking young until about the mid 90s. Does anyone have a logical explanation for all of this?
Your mother will be pleased to hear that you think she looked 40 when she was 16! lol - best not mention that one to her! :-)
Maybe it could have something to do with the quality of the photos from those days? Other than that, maybe it was all the 3-2 beer and smoking and drugs or something. But kids still do some of these things now too...
Your kids will probably be saying the same thing about you and your generation. I grew up in the 60's snd 70's and when I look st old pictures of my parents and people from the 20's and 30's, I think the same thing about them.
I think kids looked less weathered back in the 70's. Look at prom pics or the high school graduating class of various schools these days and you'd think most were middle aged. At least that's what I see in the areas I've lived.
I'm in high school now and I've looked at yearbooks of my school from various decades as well as my parents yearbooks and the teenagers looked extremely old. My parents both went to school in the 70s and they certainly didn't look like me at 16. I look at the faces of the teenagers in the yearbooks and they could easily pass for a 40 year old even 50 year old if they look really old (which a lot do). Every other guy had a mustache and a lot even had beards and the girls looked like middle aged women. I know they had different hairstyles and wore different clothes them but they just had faces that didn't look youthful at all. Teenagers now look so much younger than teenagers of any other generation. I noticed that teenagers now are much shorter and look much younger. I'd say a lot of teens now could pass for 10-12 year olds. It's quite strange how teens didn't start looking young until about the mid 90s. Does anyone have a logical explanation for all of this?
Some of it had to do with the quality of the pics, the print media and the style of clothing and hair. Look at pics of yearbooks from the 50s. And the main reason guys looked older is because things like metrosexual were not around. Guys let their hair grow. We have a kid at work who is 25 and can't grow a beard or mustache to save his life.
My mom went to HS in 40's and really, she looked 30 when she was 13. Black and white photo, dark lipstick, heavily drawn on eyebrows, hair in a wave....everyone WANTED to look older. It wasn't just something that occurred, it was on purpose.
Maybe it could have something to do with the quality of the photos from those days? Other than that, maybe it was all the 3-2 beer and smoking and drugs or something. But kids still do some of these things now too...
Wildcard thought: perhaps their parents had more adult expectations of them thus making them appear older or they were introduced to the workforce at early age in some capacity and had assumed a mantle of responsibility, and all this without having 24/7 digital electronic contact with each other to 'bathe' in white noise?
As another mentioned, it may also be the school studio photography methods of the day.
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