17 Photos Proving That Our Relatives Looked Like Models When They Were Young

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3 years ago

Today, fashion dictates its own, sometimes very strict, rules. A lot of people try to follow the trends and buy beauty products and new clothes, and they edit their photos before sharing them with others. The beauty standards are changing every day and it seems that the people of the past couldn’t have been attractive because the trends were so different from today. But when we look at the photos from the family archives, we realize that this is simply not true.

We at Bright Side are convinced that every person has their own natural beauty and the photos of our relatives prove it. And at the end of the article, there’s a bonus feature that shows how you can look young at any age.

“My great-grandfather served in the Navy during WWII. He was a great man and always had a brilliant smile (circa the 1940s)!”

“My beautiful mother, early 1970s”

“My grandfather in the army, the 1960s, Italy”

“My mother’s senior portrait, 1989”

“My pretty grandma in the 1930s!”

“My mom at 17, 1968”

“My Italian grandpa looking like he just stepped off a movie set”

“My great-grandfather from Cuba”

“My great-grandmother Marie in the mid-to-late 1940s”

“My great-great-uncle, Carroll Jones Stokes in 1944”

“I found an old photo of my parents getting ready for the Marine Corps Ball.”

“This is my favorite picture of my grandfather in 1956.”

“I’d never seen a photo of my mom when she was young until today. My mom always thought she was ugly and that makes me sad because she was beautiful. I miss you.”

“My mom, my grandma, and my sister in 1994”

“Unearthed a photo of my granny. She worked as an extra in old British films.”

“My great-grandmother, 1961”

“Found this old photo of a soviet soldier in my grandmother’s album.”

Bonus: “Who said that you can only be attractive when you’re young? Here’s my grandma with some exotic cats on our Texas ranch in the late ’60s or early ’70s.”

Do you like looking at photos from family albums? Share the pictures of your relatives in the comment section below!

Preview photo credit DolorestheExplorer / reddit

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These are lovely! Women in previous eras always look like elegant Old Hollywood movie stars and the men- well there isn’t much to them that is distinctive of their era appearance wise. Women definitely have had hair, makeup, clothing changes that make the date of a photo more believable. The only time I think I can look at a photo of a man and believe the era is when they are about 16 it seems, these photos taken of them standing or sitting that are not close up. My great great grandparents have a photo like that, when they were about 16 getting married. I don’t know if I am making sense without examples.... so many older eras.. earlier days of photography where it took much longer than the manual handheld camera, where the people stood longer than expected and their smiles were not captured. The photos of a very large family in front of their farmhouse (we have some or those too, my maternal grandmother’s father’s side a printed photo book of ancestors. 1800s.. grandma was born in 1924) One of my favorite photo collections is from, was it the Victorian era?? Where the man had a hidden camera and caught candid shots of people walking and greeting him. It’s wonderful! An era we don’t have a lot of smiling photos from, and those smiles made people look closer to what we modernly think of each age group facially.

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https://dustyoldthing.com/1890s-spy-cam-stormer/ here is an example of his spy photos of the Victorian era smiles!

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Some of those people look like vintage Movie stars, others like they are part of Stranger things' cast. I love such compilations? ?

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Yes, antique and vintage photos are wonderful aren’t they?! I do also love the wardrobe in Stranger Things!!

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Especially during the last season, the wardrobe is AMAZING! So colourful and fancy! I love it :D

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So how much are used to love this series!! You were used to watch it with my sister when we were teens. By the way I remember reading somewhere that they were making a reboot of the show!

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* Gabrielle Carteris

has announced it on his Instagram last year but I don't know what happened after all ;)

"Working hard! Can’t wait to show you what we’ve been up to!" https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5q_AUhK9q/ :)

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I do like some of their outfits throughout the series and the wavy/curly hair. I don’t know of they were natural but too many shows think you have to straighten it! I can only occasionally get my wavy hair to curl nicely.

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I did not watch it, being born in 1988, but looking at the outfits, these are my absolute favorites that I would totally wear now!

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