As soon as I saw it, I was like,”oh yeah, mall, glamour shots”. I dated a girl who had some done in lingerie and I found out later that I wasn’t the only one that got a few copies. She was fun though.
Lol, my mom thought glamour shots was trashy as hell and wouldn’t let me have a photoshoot there, much less go herself! Thankfully, she saved me from the ultimate 90s blunder.
I can co-sign, my mom had this same photo taken in probably the late 80s early 90s. My dad said she had black gloves on touching her shoulder, but he commissioned someone to pain that photo into a portrait & the lady didn’t want to paint hands so she did her shoulders wrapped in a feather boa type thing like OP. The painting has been in the living room my entire life so it was crazy to see this identical glamor shot
I ran across my glamour shots recently. So many poses, faux things i ‘wore’ - for those not in the know, you were encouraged to wear a camisole or tube top so that the accessories the photographer brought or had could be draped around you so you could ‘wear’ several looks during the photoshoot. The cami spaghetti straps would be taken off and folded into the top. Then it looked extra fancy when you had this amazing wardrobe of velvet, feathers, sparkle, whatever.
It seemed super glam at the time but 30+ years later shows its age.
Can remember back in the early 2000s doing jobs in peoples houses with these types of pictures and the lady of the house would always say “ oh yes I used to be a model” or “ I done some modelling before “ , they paid for a 1 day shoot lol
So OPs grandma is prob about 63-64 now, and the other person is older than 32 with parents that are 64+? I think I got it right LOL 😂
Their parents are older than OP's grandma, and they're not particularly old.
Having been there in 1992, it’s crazy to me that a person who was 30 is now 63-64.
I swear to you, it doesn’t seem that long ago. It’s terrifying how fast it all goes.
Just two years ago I must have went back in time in my mind and wrote a check with the year 1996.
Fast forward up into the 2010s and that was a week ago to me.
I don’t know man. We aren’t here long, that’s for sure. In my mind my mother should be about 29-32. She’s 57. I can’t believe it. My dad is dead, and he should be about 30 and very much alive. And then my uncle, the person I’m probably closest to, he’s two years younger than my grandpa was when he died.
My grandpa seemed old to me. My uncle doesn’t, but then, we’ve worked together for 25 years. That 25 years has gone by in a few years the way I perceive time. It feels like a few weeks ago when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to have it removed, and I was terrified that I was going to lose him then. It’s been 20 years. Holy crap.
It really is nuts, isn’t it? I know telling young people this doesn’t matter because I was young yesterday and I had a thousand years to be young.
Find ways to slow time down kids. Don’t do repetitive things, change it up as much as possible and live a thousand lives. That is the trick. Do the same thing over and over again and watch the years turn into days. That’s my advice, but you’ll take me seriously or you won’t.
I wish I was as smart as you when I was younger. I would’ve just shrugged this off. Thank you for thanking me and making me feel like what I’m saying isn’t pointless.
I appreciate the validation.
Someone downvoted me, not that it matters, but that’s exactly what I would’ve done. :p
I’m so curious how old you are, based on your moms age you could be late 20s to mid 30s, but the way you talk in your comments sounds like someone very old reflecting back on a life already lived. I’m in my early 30s and feel like my life is barely beginning
Wild isn't it? My mum is 78. 78! It's crazy to me. I was still a teenager in the 2000's, now I'm in my mid-40's.
What really gets me is you don't necessarily notice them getting older until all of a sudden they're a sort of smaller, frailer version of the person you saw in your mind your entire life.
Still, at least I get to see her grow old, not everyone gets that luxury. She's the same age now as my dad was when he died 5 years ago, and hopefully she's got a few more years left yet!
In 1992 my oldest was 2. I’m 57. 1992 seems like yesterday, but at the same time like it was so long ago that it wasn’t even my life, but more a documentary about a time before I was born in ‘68.
I don’t fear getting old, or death, I just have existential crisis moments about the fact that time passing hasn’t been predictable. It just screams by now.
For me the hardest part is regarding my kids. It's a blessing to see them grow but I am truly terrified for the hole in my home once they grow up, childhood over, and I just look back on memories. I look at my 3 year old and already feel a wave of missing his babyhood that knocks me down for a beat. I cannot think about it for too long or I literally cry. Both of my children are sleeping beside me right now and I wish I could pop back into this moment any time. His curly hair, his hot wheels in the bed, his hands and feet always looking for me. And the baby, hugging her bunny, our sweet girl who loves sleep and has been a dream baby. I want this forever it's literally what heaven is to me.
Sometimes it feels too short, but other times it seems to be taking forever. Like, it’s crazy to me that I could just die tomorrow and that’s it. I could also drag it out and live a whole 20 years after I turn 80. That’s crazy too.
Honestly, you’d be surprised. I’m 30 now, and when I see some of the people I went to high school with on Facebook… goddamn. They look like they’re my parents’ age.
33 myself and looking at my graduating class; half of us look like we’re in our late 20s while the other half looks like they’ve lived a rough 40+ years
I’m 31 and still get carded at bars, but my younger gf doesn’t which she isn’t a fan of lol. I had a customer ask if I’m in school, and after I told her I’m past that age, she seemed surprised and told me she thought I was 17.
She doesn't look 50 in her face I think the hair ages her. If OP hadn't said 30 I'd think 40 (I'm 43). OP also said her grandma got pregnant at 20-ish, and most people now have kids in 30s or later, so maybe it's just what 10 years of parenting can do!!
I think what people are mostly picking up on here though is laxity in the face, which can be caused either by weight loss or hormonal shifts. It hits some people earlier than others, and is largely out of our control. It’s also the main reason some people get facelifts.
The skin around her chest and neck is still very firm and youthful (I know there's a beauty filter in the shot) it's just her face is a bit more tired and loose, which could be from parenting, bad genetics, smoking and tanning like some said. If you changed her hairstyle and makeup to something more modern to a 30 year old I think it would feel more accurate.
That was my reaction, too; grandma here is younger than my own mom, and my kid is about that young so OP being six sounds reasonable!
But at the same time all it takes is grandma having OP’s parent at 22 and then that parent having OP at 22. Which is a bit young but also pretty reasonable.
Kinda related, but we had one girl in my class had a baby. She was 15-16 at the time, a little girl. Turns out that little girl ended up doing the same thing, so my classmate became the first grandma in my class at only 32 years old.
Damn, I thought Lee Marvin in the Dirty Dozen was the prime example of a young old dude. I also love how this exact picture appears on his Wikipedia page, with the caption: "Richard Vernon, aged 39, in Goldfinger (1964)"
I did the whole Glamor Shots thing, too, and it was kind of awful. I was in college in 1992 and they made me look like a thirty year old divorcee. Big hair, gaudy makeup, wrapped in stuff that maybe wasn’t clean… sensory nightmare. I had naturally occurring ringlets like Weird Al and they poofed me up like a poodle.
I also had Glamour Shots done in 92 and wound up looking like a poofy 40yr old, but I was 17 an my mom was so mad that they brushed my curly hair and put so much makeup on me
Glamour shots! In the 90’s everyone needed movie star headshots suddenly. You’d get them done and give them to people. Hilarious in hindsight, but low key kinda cool. My mom has passed and I found hers from the 90’s. It’s cool having “nice photos” of just her
My brother in law had his 1st kid at 17. That kid had his 1st kid at 17. That kid is now going on 16 and I’m fully expecting my brother in law to be a great grandpa by the time he’s 50.
Glamour Shots! I remembered my sister and I pooled our allowance to take our mom to get them when she found out our dad had a girlfriend. We wanted her to feel pretty.
This must have been taken at Glamour Shots, they could be found at every mall in thrb80's and 90's they had like 350+ locations. The Last Studio: The very last traditional Glamour Shots studio, located in El Paso, Texas, recently announced its closure in March 2026 after 35 years of operation following the owner's retirement.
The further you go in the past, the older young people look. That looks like 40-45 today. If that picture was taken in the 60's or 70's she would be like 17 years old 😅
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u/adognameddanzig Mar 28 '26
You kids don't know about Glamour Shots of the 90s