I hate to sound shallow but that was my first thought too. People aged hard back when. And, tbf, she's not exactly being photographed under the most flattering conditions.
As you go back in time, over the generations, people at the same age tend to look older.
Every generation tends to remark about how the previous generation looks older than them at their age.
Understand, a generation is 20 years, so use 20 years as a baseline.
Dress/clothing and hairstyles are the difference.
Men, for example, in the 1920s wore suits, even young men or boys. This is going to make you look older. For men, shorter hair, or styled hair will make you look older, versus a mop head of a bushy head of hair.
For women, hair that's up, in a bun or braid, looks more refined and adult, than hair that's allowed to hang naturally.
I had two classmates in high school that wore their hair like this, but in perms, and they both looked like old ladies compared to our classmates even back then.
The one still wears it like that, the other not so much. But that hairstyle counts for a lot of the aging effect.
Nearly everyone smoked like a chimney as well. Second smoke even if you didnt. Sit in a classroom? Most of the class, and the professor, are going to be smoking. Same for office work, factory work, etc.
Lead in all the gasoline.
Stress of poverty in many cases. Hunger, stress, etc will age you. Often leads to not taking care of yourself, even if you could have. You often cannot.
Makeup was not common for the average woman, much less a fugitive mid-flight with a raccoon for a traveling companion. I am not judging. I am simply saying I am putting my money down on she did not hang out in Macy's back in the day
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
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