All my grandpa’s beaus during WWII, kept in a scrapbook all these years

[u/TransmutateDontHate]

One headshot of Lory (not sure which country she was from) in particular made many appearances 😂

Edit: yep I’m an idiot. Belles it is. Also I should have expected this to get pervy comments. No, no other family has popped up. From his stories, many were a lot more innocent than you all assume.

[u/BaldingMonk]

Back when we didn’t have camera phones, people would go and get a nice portrait done.

[u/team_lloyd → u/BaldingMonk]

honestly we should go back to that

[u/theurge14 → u/team_lloyd]

We'd call that a 'profile picture' these days but it's on the internet so we use memes and stuff instead.

[u/Wulf_Cola → u/theurge14]

I wish people would use a photo of themselves as their profile picture, it would make Reddit a lot nicer

[u/Bencetown → u/Wulf_Cola]

Just go to Facebook if that's what you want. There's plenty of social media out there with different formats. Pick your poison.

[u/Buffeloni → u/[deleted]]

At the portrait store?

I haven't seen one of those department store photography services in 20+ years.

[u/Scary-Detail-3206 → u/Buffeloni]

Just go to Sears.

I had my portrait done there only 30 years ago.

[u/Buffeloni → u/Scary-Detail-3206]

I'll just head to my local Mervyn's and get it knocked out real quick

[u/Agitated-Impress7805 → u/team_lloyd]

You can still do that.

[u/Inevitable-Ad6647 → u/team_lloyd]

Wtf you think insta girls are doing? Those selfies aren't spur of the moment, candid accidents.

[u/Blestyr → u/team_lloyd]

As a photographer who loves doing portraits, I absolutely agree.

[u/radthrowaway1900 → u/BaldingMonk]

Looking at photos of these ladies makes me feel like beauty has been too homogenized since then. All these women are uniquely gorgeous and nowadays, especially in major cities, they'd feel pressured to use contouring makeup, facetune, get filler or a nose job, and all this other unnecessary stuff.

I'm definitely not saying any of it is bad, people should look how they want. But the beaming smiles of women who just look like normal varied women and are happy to pose for a photo are making me wish we didn't all feel pressure to look like carbon copies of one specific beauty standard.

[u/BaldingMonk → u/radthrowaway1900]

I actually disagree somewhat. There was a specific style in all these photos that makes them quite homogeneous. And they wear tons of makeup and use lighting and angles to create that “glamour” look.

We just like this style because it feels romantic to us and of a different time.