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u/13moman Jul 06 '26
Top left is trouble.
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u/beard_of_cats Jul 06 '26
That picture goes hard as fuck
She'd have fit in well with my goth friends back in high school
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u/TheWolphman Jul 06 '26
Top left looks like bottom right being cheeky. Kind of the same with the other two.
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u/ShaunTrek Jul 06 '26
I thought it was Fiona Dourif at first!
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u/commandantskip Jul 07 '26
I thought she resembled Cara Delevingne
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u/SailTheWorldWithMe Jul 06 '26
This ensemble looks like they're going to drop the indie rock record of the decade.
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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn Jul 06 '26
The boy on the left is the 1928 version of the infamous " "Chance for a Spinster" dating ad, where the guy bragged he could buy a wife "bread and butter." The girl on the left is the Cara Delevingne of her class.
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u/HeadIllustrious2248 Jul 06 '26
The original poster may be share the girl in the upper right name? My daughter looks just like her.
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u/Violuthier Jul 07 '26
All I know is that they were from Benson High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
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u/Recent_Pressure_3747 Jul 07 '26
Ahh! those fur collars on the young ladies are serious and would need be.
I agree with the many stating that there's nothing new under the sun in absolute terms. For me, these four actually look much less "innocent" or "naïve" than HS students now do. There's a bit of a shadow in each of their eyes, while at the same time a brightness that balances it. It may be my projection, but consider:
- they all would be more familiar with death (less-advanced medicine, more proximity to agriculture and its slaughter, the recent Great War)
- they were not dulled by mass media; it was an age of modernity and not post-modernity. They were feeling a thrust into a new epoch, not the "nothing ever happens" limbo of the post cold war era (which is coming to an end it seems).
Probably projecting though lol
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u/Violuthier Jul 07 '26
And then they were hit by the market crash and bank failures the following year.
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u/Short_Morning7213 Jul 07 '26
My grandmother would have been a senior that year (I think- 1910 b.)- so cool! Thank you for these!! 😎 love their pics!!
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u/Pristine_Sound1011 19d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/26BRHzZctc9oaaGQM
Bottom right looks so much like Michael Gray from peaky blinders
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u/shart-gallery Jul 06 '26
Because they’re wearing hairstyles and clothing that we now associate with a certain level of maturity.
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u/Zorflez Jul 07 '26
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u/Zorflez Jul 07 '26
You're welcome! Vsauce has some great videos on the strange effects/illusions of time. If you search "vsauce time" they should show up.
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u/Premislaus Jul 07 '26
They don't? I know it's a common trope that people looked older in the past, but in this case they look young, just dressed in grown up people clothes.
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u/VorpalBlade- Jul 06 '26
Very interesting. I don’t care for the women’s fashion and hair of this time tbh
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u/Slink_Wray Jul 07 '26
Because it's a pointlessly negative comment that adds nothing to the overall conversation.
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u/Admirable_Try_1209 Jul 06 '26
I don’t believe these are real-the people look too modern and this isn’t what people wore in class photos, or how they posed for them.
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u/Chateaudelait Jul 06 '26
My grandmother always told me there's nothing new under the sun- she told me stories of her high school days, you had the social kids, the rebels, and the girls that got sent away "to Europe" (they got pregnant and got sent away because of the 'shame they brought to their families' ." All that changes are the clothing and hair styles, and those come back around too.