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2 responses to “Women of the Future, 1902”

1. 2012/10/13

   Carl

   Completely lacking in walkie-talkies, velcro, semi-automatic sidearms made of ABS, any form of microelectronics…

   I dunno, the exotic clothing and (for the time) stripped-down look was probably to titillate, but no bus driver? There’s a coach driver – in 1902, it was still open to question whether automobiles would really catch on, much less become ubiquitous, working-class things.

   And there’s a mayor, a judge, a barrister, a doctor – in 1902, women were only just gaining the right to vote, and in Switzerland, where the menfolk value tradition and don’t like to embrace radicalism with great haste, women had to wait until 1971…

   But it’s not a massive leap of imagination to put women in futury flying machines, granted – Amy Johnson was born in 1903, the same year the Wrights first flew, and people have dreamed of flying since, well, forever.

   People predicting the future are often a bit old-fashioned in their preconceptions, though, in retrospect, I think that’s the appeal 🙂

   London 1902:

   http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/store/ttdb/krg0001/lowres/000065_regular.jpg?1249901922

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2. 2012/10/13

   Kate Stout

   I found these pictures charming, and was struck by how the women’s bodies where much more normally proportioned than the current size-0 culture of today’s models.

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