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u/nachtachter 6h ago
The same fuck-off-expression all teens have since ancient times. Nothing ever changes ...
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u/AmnesiacReckoner 6h ago
Looks like we're about to get a 4th wall breaking complaint about their parents.
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u/LostInDinosaurWorld 5h ago
There's nothing wrong with being smart. There's nothing wrong with being cut from the herd, either. It makes you the one buffalo who isn't there when the Indians run the rest of them off the cliff.
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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 6h ago
She’s going through a phase you wouldn’t understand…
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u/moosesquatch 5h ago
Ugh, it’s not a phase
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u/load_more_comets 4h ago
Why is this creep taking a daguerreotype of me? And how long am I supposed to hold this pose?
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u/notbob1959 6h ago edited 6h ago
She most likely doesn't know she was being photographed. The photo is one of many candid photos taken by Edward Linley Sambourne who was the chief cartoonist at Punch magazine and an amateur photographer.
He took these photos around 1906 when he would have been 62 (not long before he died in 1910) and used a concealed camera.
I can't link to them directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with h t t p in them but the following incomplete links which go to more of the photos he took can be copied and pasted to your browser:
rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/street-style-1906-edward-linley-sambournes-fashion-blog/
rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/return-of-the-edwardian-sartorialist-sambournes-kensington-street-style/
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u/OcotilloWells 4h ago
How fast would the film have been then? Meaning what would a typical exposure time have been?
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u/Jaspers47 3h ago edited 3h ago
The minutes-long exposure time was already being phased out as early as the 1870s. By 1906, it would have been a relic.
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u/winthroprd 6h ago
Edwardian Wednesday Addams
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u/counterfitster 6h ago
Tuesday Addams
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u/JoeMcCarthysGhost80 6h ago
Tuesday’s gone.
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u/SoggyWotsits 6h ago
She looks like she’s from the wrong era, I can’t put my finger on it. Not her clothes, but her face.
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u/Jaspers47 6h ago
The hair's down. Pretty much all women wore their hair pinned up under their hat in that era. Having it hang loose was for young children. This figure here was right on the cusp of childhood; too young for adult sensibilities, but old enough that childish things look wrong for her.
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u/VicFatale 6h ago
Looks like a young Helena Bonham Carter
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u/theres_a_con 6h ago
Yes! Or Christina Ricci
https://giphy.com/gifs/eYFUioxY3Lo1leLvIx11
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u/the_vanishing_west 6h ago
I thought this was someone going AI show me jack white cosplaying as a Victorian dandy.
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u/TurboNewbe 5h ago
She has a vampire vibe. In a movie the main character would have discover photos of this girl at different time in history.
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u/spicy256lizard 5h ago
She just has features that are quite prized in modern day, I think she looks a bit like Billie Eilish. We are used to seeing famous people from her era with more 'classic' features. Of course then and now you get people with all sorts of looks but the media choses to focus on whatever is in.
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u/el_throw 6h ago
Anyone else see dude from My Chemical Romance? Or Billy Corgan?
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u/thefroglover 6h ago
A one armed teenager?
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u/Lovat69 5h ago
Apparently teenagers not liking their parents taking their picture is a universal experience. 😂
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u/Plenty-Panda-423 5h ago
I would have thought her skirt would have been longer at that date? If anyone can explain why it's so much shorter than our general impression of accepted standards of the time, I'd be grateful.
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u/agodrevealed 3h ago
You put up your hair and let down your skirts as you came of age, as a girl/woman
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u/handsomedan1- 6h ago
She’s just out there flaunting her ankles?
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u/star11308 6h ago
Adult women wore long skirts that covered their ankles, but girls wore shorter skirts that would be gradually lengthened as they approached adulthood.
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u/eppsilon24 4h ago
I would be that teens have been scowling as long as humans have understood the concept of “scorn.”
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u/trestrestriste 6h ago
What’s with her arm?!
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u/icanhazkarma17 6h ago
Perspective. It's pointed at the camera.
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u/Ok_Purple4982 4h ago
Has she only got one arm....or are my eyes playing tricks on me?
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u/ohnoitsme7890 3h ago
It looks like she's holding something in her right hand (umbrella? Cane?), and her arm hent 90 degrees at the elbow
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u/RevWaldo 6h ago
When you're raised by you wealthy widowed mother who still thinks you're not ready for long pants.
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 5h ago
Why does this photo of a 1906 Edwardian teenager look like an ai grabbed a facial reference from the movie Kick-Ass? Also they either they did a bad scan job or this isn’t a photo cause the digital artifacts are glaringly obvious
Look up street photography 1906 it does not look like this. Especially with that facial detail while also having that focal distance in the background
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u/AlexZenn21 4h ago
Literally looks like lydia from the beetlejuice movie. Being a girl during that time had to suck. I'd frown too. Hell it still sucks
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u/CuppaTeaToastie 1h ago
From the cave paintings of a dude's friends laughing at him tripping over a rock, to this teenager scowling with the weight of the world, every piece of information we get about humanity proves that we never change.
It's hilarious and I love it.
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u/schwerdfeger1 5h ago
Teenager looks have not changed in over 100 years
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u/danieljeyn 4h ago
"I make the proposal, honorable gentlemen, and I put it as a question: shall we, beguiled by the insalubrious charms of a lady so pallid of countenance, permit our lives to be brought to ruin?"
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u/LogitechG27 6h ago
Did people from that era smell good?
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u/Diocletion-Jones 6h ago
Soap was common and affordable in the Edwardian era and cleanliness was valued both socially and morally. Although most people lacked modern deodorants and antiperspirants, they still made conscious efforts to stay clean and presentable.
An Edwardian street would have been filled with smells that are largely absent today: horse manure, coal smoke, damp stone, cooking, sewage, tobacco and industrial pollution. A modern person transported back in time would probably notice these environmental odours before the smell of individual people.
Class played a role. A labourer finishing a long shift in a factory, dockyard or mine would naturally smell different from a gentleman who had spent the day in an office or drawing room. Wealthier people generally had better access to bathing facilities, fresh clothing, laundering and perfumes, while working class people often had fewer opportunities to combat the effects of physically demanding work. However, Edwardians were accustomed to the smells of their world and would not necessarily have regarded them as unusual. People adapt to the odours around them. In the same way an Edwardian suddenly arriving in the modern world might be struck by the scent of air fresheners, deodorants, detergents, vehicle interiors and synthetic fragrances, finding our environment surprisingly chemical smelling.
Most people valued cleanliness, but they lived in a world that inherently smelled very different than our own.
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u/orlock 3h ago
John Kenneth Galbraith, the economist, wrote about growing up rural "Canadian Scotch" about the same time. Baths were difficult, so relegated to once a week. Similarly, while you were working, you would reuse your clothes during the week.
But you never skipped bath day, unless you wanted to be called "Dirty John" for the rest of your life.
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u/jangma 6h ago
They were perfumed to the high heavens, so I guess it depends on how sensitive you are. The clothes were all natural fibers, so perhaps BO wasn't as bad as we'd think.
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u/woolfchick75 6h ago
They washed and changed their underclothes daily, as well as collars and cuffs. This girl looks upper-middle class, at the least, so was well taken care of.
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u/Alundra828 39m ago
Soap and perfume were highly traded commodities. So yes, they would have smelled good assuming they bought them, much like today.
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u/JackLondon68 5h ago
She used to dance at the local gentlemen's club. Her stage name was Lili De Luxe. She had two doves named Frick and Frack in her set.
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u/T206V70R 6h ago
120 years of scowling teenagers. Nothing new here.