Beauty Is Timeless

[Sukerkin]

Link surfing from Don's recent thread with a map that showed what each countries name meant lead me to here:

http://www.barnorama.com/beautiful-women-of-the-past-2/

I have to say that I confirm my status as a man born in the wrong era by finding some of these ladies of a bygone time to be breathtaking.

Particularly one who did not have her name listed so I dug about a bit more until I found out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Fealy

She reminds me terribly of an actress in the current film era ... I can picture her but not think of a name ... any help?

 

[Chris Parker]

Kate Winslet perhaps?

 

[Sukerkin]

Hmmm, I can see what you mean there, Chris but that's not the association my sub-conscious is making I don't think.

 

[Chris Parker]

Fair enough. I'll just say Scarlett Johansen and make my unconscious association then.... it doesn't have to be a real association, does it?

 

[Sukerkin]

:chuckles: Not at all my friend, not at all. As the thread title says, beauty is timeless, as are the images and associations we formulate in our consciounesses .

The similarity I think I was getting tweaked in my own memory was:

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Leah_Brahms

 

[Chris Parker]

Oh, you and your Trek..... personally, give me Jolean Blalock in a heartbeat.... a little old for me, but hey, I'm willing to make sacrifices when necessary.

 

[Sukerkin]

Aye, a fine lady in her Vulcan guise I do concurr. I am more of a Jeri Ryan or Roxann Dawson kind-a-guy myself, being a fan of curves.

Perhaps that is why I like the starlets of earlier era's viz they were not all cast in the 'slimcia girl' rail-thin mould?

 

[Archangel M]

Iris Hoey does it for me. I wish I had a time machine.

Beautiful find Suk.

 

[Sukerkin]

I'll help you to build it, my friend :nods in agreement:. She is indeed heart-meltingly lovely.

 

[MA-Caver]

First name that popped in my head was Mary Pickford and then... Lillian Gish... both being silent screen starlets at the time and attractive in their younger days.
The ladies from your first link (probably one of our great grandmothers) were indeed as you put it breathtaking but I'll bet ya behind closed doors they were just as rowdy and decadent as most modern women today... the difference is that they just held it all back when out in public... which IMO does say A LOT about the women of that era.

(this said with all due respect to some of the women --- especially on this forum, of today).

 

[Sukerkin]

I do concur, Caver, that the ... erm ... well ... non-professional recreational activities of the earlier generations were more than likely no less restricted than in the present day.

Indeed in the Victorian era, what went on behind closed doors in 'polite society' might well make even our modern eyebrows raise . That is because if something is repressed in public life then it tends to flower more vigorously in private life.