When Ringlets were the Rage
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382693)
Rockingham, Australia
February 17, 2016 11:19pm CST
A friend of mine on this site, @IreneVincent, recently posted an old photo of her father, prompting me to post this of my mother and her two brothers. (There's a link below to her discussion.)
My Mum was born in 1910. Now that the photos are so much better on the 'new' site, it seemed worthwhile posting it. I did put this up on another site so apologies if you've seen it before.
I guess what is most interesting is the 'dress' of the older children and their hair styles. I wonder if my uncle slept all night with his hair in rags so he'd look nice in the photo? It would have been a really big deal at the time to have a studio photo taken. Have you an old photo to share?
My mother is on the right; the others are her brothers.
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@garymarsh6 (24130)
• United Kingdom
18 Feb 16
I love looking at old photos. Sometimes people still look similar even after many years!
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Feb 16
@garymarsh6 @gudheartI can see the likeness of my Mum in this photo even when she was much older.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
18 Feb 16
Very interesting photo and it took me a while to figure out (correct me if I am wrong) your mother is the one on the right, the other two are her brothers. I have some old photos too, but I would have to go look for them and it is nothing like what you have here, this is a classic. 
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
18 Feb 16
@JudyEv Back then, it probably wasn't an issue. Like the curled wigs the early Americans wore, it was part of the fashion of the day.
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Feb 16
@Carmelanirel2 You're right of course but sometimes you forget.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
18 Feb 16
I'm viewing your post from the new site and i enjoyed looking at this old photo of your Mom and her sisters. Your Mom was the baby at the middle? I love the hairstyle of the 2 older ones, but they were all so pretty. Unfortunately old photos of my Mom were destroyed by flood.
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
18 Feb 16
I love old photos--they are so very rich emotively--my grandmother used rags in her hair at the turn of the century--and though I think there were hair curling irons at the time, most people tended to use rags--thank you for sharing this!
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@iamshane487 (1138)
• Manila, Philippines
18 Feb 16
I love seeing the old photos because I can really compare the fashion before than now. Looking beautiful in the photo.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
19 Feb 16
What a cute photo - priceless!!
This fad was there during our era too but boys and men were excluded (lol)
I used to twirl my hair round my finger and there was this senior in school who whenever she looked at me she would imitate me
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
19 Feb 16
I see/hear ringlets and all that comes to mind are Shirley Temple and Mary Pickford--yes I am an old guy--or Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" 
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@ida123 (6206)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
19 Feb 16
That was in before but how do we look when our grand children will look at our old pictures too? How does they react and say? Ha, ha. The old pictures reminds us our old ones, like the picture above, look at the style of their hair.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
18 Feb 16
I don't see YOUR photo of your Mum? I must be doing something wrong.
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@Ladypeace (2028)
• Singapore
19 Feb 16
It's a beautiful picture! I'm unaware that ringlets were in fashion during that time. Kind of like how men in ancient china kept their hair long and tied them in pony tails.
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