Teenagers??!
Ya, right! They look like they were pushing 40.😄
shareEspecially horse face Curtis. I never got her appeal, lol.
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Most of them were actually 19 to 22. Lou looks much older. The guy who played Kim's brother, Alex, said in "the making of" documentary that he was 17 at the time. Curtis was 19.
shareEveryone always comments about how much faster people aged in the 1970s/1980s. They always say that people back then looked as though they were in their 30s or 40s when they were just teenagers. I never really notice, though. They look just fine to me.
shareIt's not so much that they aged faster, it was the clothes and the hair. Having puffy, teased, volumous hair makes you look like a 40-year-old mom no matter who you are.
shareBack in the day, a lot of actresses/actors in their 20s looked older or gave off a more mature demeanor. Even in the '90s.
shareAgreed. I never noticed things like that either, but then I'm notoriously bad at guessing peoples ages.
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It didn't help that Curtis was dressed in a shirt and blazer - at first I thought she was Alex's mother!
shareWell, thing is, high school/college age kids back then went for a more grown-up, mature, sophisticated look.
The looks changed through the years, but the principle was the same.
For an evening out, guys wore suits. Girls wanted to look sophisticated, as well.
Today, kids, even 20-somethings, consider stylish evening attire to be (for guys) sagging, baggy pants, oversized sport jerseys, side ways ball caps, chains, etc. and (for girls) dressing like porn star hookers.
People wanted to perfect stylish dance moves, too.
Today, on the dance floor, everyone just has sex with their clothes on.
For an evening out, guys wore suits.
I wasn't around in the 70s, but I don't think guys wore suits on casual dates. share
They did where I was.
Well, let me correct: They wore suits regularly in the 50s and 60s on dates and to dances. Then, there was a break in the late 60s-early 70s, where things got real laid back.
However, by the disco era, circa late 70s-very early 80s, most guys I knew wore leisure suits, or at least button-up shirts and a sport jacket. They wore slacks and silk shirts, etc.. Girls wore evening gowns out to the dance club/ disco or to a dance, and I remember a lot of kneee high boots, knee length skirts, button up blouses, and even dress jackets, casually. Particularly after "Saturday Night Fever" came out and the disco scene was in full swing, lots of suits and evening gowns. Hell, I even remember going to a friggin' fast food restaurant late at night (after club) and seeing leisure suits, dress slacks, silk evening gowns and so forth, all over the place. I would laugh sometimes even then. Even though we all thought we were cool as hell. I'd even think to myself, "Aren't we a little over dressed for Pizza Hut?"
Nevertheless, all the young adults DID often appear much older because of the way they were dressing. Hell, even during the day, a leggy girl in a silk button-up blouse and Jordache jeans would appear substantially older then she might have really been.
Haha right?
Lou was like 30 years old.
That's always made me laugh about movies
Even current films rarely use actual teenagers for teen parts. My son is a senior in high school and I can tell you that him and his friends look nothing like Lou or Wendy!
Alex (Michael Tough) was the only character/actor who looked like a teenager! He was 17 at the time of filming, and a Senior in high school. JLC was 22 and Anne-Marie Martin (Wendy) was 23. The actress who played Vicki (Pita Oliver) looked around 19 or 20...the rest were 25+
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