Most of the people in these images absolutely look their age. A lot of the being older look is coming from the hair, clothing, ad makeup. Tat a lot of it is "old fashioned" to us is probably skewing the perceived age too.

I promise you that if you dress up like most of these and take a picture with the same equipment you will look similar.

Put those hairstyles and clothes and photographic techniques on young people today, and they'd look the same.

I do not know if they look older, but they look very elegant.

I don't know why this is surprising. Things were a lot more unhealthy back then than they are now and unhealthy things can age you. For example: smoking was common, everyone did it or knew someone who did and some doctors even recommended it. Obviously this isn't the case any more.

well now we have clean drinking water in most places and people shower on the daily. some people also use makeup. maybe the reason they look more mature is because they had more responsibilities than teens nowadays. and don't forget that we stay inside a lot with air conditioning and have face masks, cream, face wash etc.

I think they matured earlier, mainly because more was expected of them (such as respect for their elders), they actually had to work hard, and they weren't handed everything on a plate. I also noticed that they seemed to dress more respectfully (not a single belly button or pair of "daisy dukes" in the lot!)

People didn't age "faster" back then. People wished to grow up and assume an adult's position in society as being an adult was entree into society. People dressed like adults and acted like adults. They did not attempt to remain a child all their lives nor "look" young. They did not wish to be treated like a child, they wanted to enter into society and contribute. They were totally unlike society today,

I agree with some of the others that people matured faster back in the day. Today we seem to extend adolescences more and more until we treat people in their twenties as children.

n these times their just were no clothes or hair styles for the teens, they had to use adult styles which I feel age them considerably. Yes, war time clothes and a difficult time but in the UK the rationing of food was well balanced and nutritional supposed to be the times when everyone was very well fed.

Cheers mailman Cliff Clavin was 33. He was played by a 35-year-old. The "Young Mister Granger" on Are You Being Served was in his 60s; the bald, white-haired (Nicolas Smith) Mr. Rumbold was 38. General George Washington was 44 when the Declaration of Independence was signed; Thomas Jerfferson was 33. On the other hand, Ben Franklin looked pretty decent, apart from being obese, for a 72-year-old in the famous portrait you certainly picture him from.

I don't think anyone aged faster, I think they matured earlier. Add in the hairstyles and clothing, and to current observers the people look older.

People didn't age faster, kids just tended to dress like adults instead of having their own type of fashion. That is actually a fairly modern concept. It started in about the 50's when teenagers really became a separate thing and developed a different fashion sense than adults or younger kids.

I definitely think people aged faster back in the day. None of my friends look as old as our parents did at our ages. I think it's to do with less tanning, more skincare, better nutrition (or more plentiful anyway, whether it's healthy is awholenother thing!)

1. Are we sure the 'facts' being claimed here are actually facts? 'Look at these men who were dwarfs from the '50s - proof that the avg. adult male height in the '50s was 3'8!' 'Look at the world's tallest woman from 1970 - most women used to be 7'0!' You see the problem, this is a tiny sample size. It's hard to know how representative any of this was of the billions of young people who existed during given slices of the past. 2. As others have said, is it actual biological aging that happened more for these people or that their clothes, hair, facial hair and makeup are what we associate w/ older ages? For many of us these were styles we associate w/ our grandparents & great-grandparents - the clothes styles of the older eras they were from, which they still wore when we knew them when they were 70-90-something people. In a lot of cases if you photoshopped the people shown into contemporary 20-something fashions you'd get a very different, much younger impression of them.

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