Posted by js305 on August 09, 2020 at 13:20:00 from (139.60.76.103):
In Reply to: 2020.08.09 posted by kcm.MN on August 08, 2020 at 21:59:03:
Many comments about how the folks were dressed in the photos. I believe that the reason is pretty simple: Photographs in the early days (20's-30's--even before then) were special events. The subjects often having to stand still for several seconds. You didn't want to be preserved for eternity in your every day work clothes. Look at the ads for early tractors, the "farmers" were wearing city street clothes at worse, or coat and tie in many cases.
Another thing I have noticed, not mentioned here, is that a lot of the subjects would be "posed", as if lounging on a wheel or in some unusual position that really doesn't look very natural. Think about it...again, these folks were doing something that wasn't done every day. Taking pictures was really special. Not that way so much now.
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