Who Are These People?

It's always fun to imagine who the people in those old-timey photos were, what they did for a living, or even what their names were.

I did my best to color this one, since it was sort of grainy before. I found it on awkwardfamilyphotos.com. It is hilarious to think that someone decided "lining up in height order" was remotely classy. But it was a trend of the era -- this was taken in the early 1900's.

So was dressing baby boys like girls -- the baby on the end is actually a boy!

It is interesting to see the graduation of garments -- first a dress, then knickers, then suits, then pant-suits. (And the blonde one in the center looks like a trouble maker with his amused expression.) My guess is that they are all around 3 years apart, starting at 1 and ending at 12.

What I can synthesize is that they were probably very wealthy, because a) they got their picture taken, b) their clothes, and c) their pale skin. (Tan skin was considered a fashion faux pas! You can thank Coco Chanel for popularizing that bronzed, South-of-France look.) And who are they? We'll never know.

But we will know that they once posed very awkwardly for a family portrait.