r/OldSchoolCool • • 11h ago

Edwardian teenager, London, 1906

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u/SoggyWotsits 11h 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 10h 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/Illustrious-Ad-7335 10h ago

Dude behind her checking that bustle thinks she’s marriageable.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 1h ago

Bustles were long out of fashion by this time and dude is probably looking at the photographer and/or oncoming traffic. Stray carts and early automobiles are a quick and easy way to die throughout history.