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goatamon t1_ir5p32z wrote

How do you know what they really looked like?

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Civil-Secretary-2356 t1_ir5qnve wrote

Eh? Nowhere in my post did I say I know what they looked like. I said I suspect, emphasis on suspect, these faces are often made to look better than they really were. I'm assuming here that hair upkeep was worse back in the day, same with skin and teeth care. Add a bit of tough physical labour & childbirth and you could have a very different specimen than we see in the image. Sure, this lady may really have had the handsome looks of a daytime TV soap opera actress we see portrayed but I suspect(that word again) she did not.

Edit: plus, it's Scotland. We ain't as a rule very good looking.

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