okay so this isnt really mysterious but its a bit weird. haha well to me it is but everytime i see a picture of someone from a long long time ago, a different era, i always wonder what they would look like if they were in modern times? like this broad: okay so i can sort of picture her with a regular hairstyle & regular clothes, but its something about her face thats hard for me to picture. is it just me or did people have different facial structures or something? haha i dont know this is just my stoned thought for the day
I'm sure someone has written a computer program which does just that. M.I.T. for instance has written a computer program which can take a picture of a child, and with a high degree of accuracy show what that child will look like as an adult. Hotwater
haha that makes me think of the movie 'bill and teds excellent adventure' where they go through history and bring back a whole bunch of people, and at the end they have napoleon, beethoven and atilla the hun wandering around the mall.
yeah that is kind of weird... everytime i see pictures of people from back in old times.. they all look like that. lol
People were smaller then, and although Americans, especially tend towards "obesity" more then ever now, womyn, back then (I'm thinking Victorian Age through the 40s) tended to be "meatier" than most womyn in movies are now. Shorter, too. I found out that my 5 ft, 125 pound frame was about the average 100 years ago, but considered "small" at the present time. The vast majority of people before the 40s were totally breastfed for a long period of time, as well. This definately effects appearence. Children are slimmer, but chubby in middle infancy, and the facial structure of a completely breastfed child is completely different than a baby who was fed with an artificial device. The suckling develops muscles in the face that are not developed with other types of feeding. It makes for a stronger jaw, and a different looking appearence, even into adolescence. There is an artist, who did portraits, painted, of children in the late Edwardian Age (right after Victorian Age) into the 1930s or a little later, named Bessie Wise Guttman. I have always thought that my breastfed children looked Excactly like those children, other people have noticed, too. I have Mrs. Guttman's portraits around my house, and people are always asking if they are my children.
people had different concepts of ideal physical beauty. so people did different things to look more like that ideal. this is a thing that is constantly chainging and evolving. not in a streight line nor a circule either. just sort of randomly zigzagging along. also since the ideal was different, people who looked closer to what that ideal then was were more favored to exemplify it. in other words a top model of today, teleported back in time a hundred years of more would probably have to take up a different line of work. likewise one from then to now. all sorts of different appearance types exist in all eras. just the ones you see more of from one time or another, would be most likely those considered ideal then. so that's why they look different then then now. it's just the difference of what was selected for then from now. =^^= .../\...
