Color

[Kiri]

Does anyone else ever find it funny to think that people in the old days lived in color? Sometimes I almost find myself thinking they lived in black and white, or grainy color. Especially the Victorian era and early 20th century. It's so strange to imagine them seeing colors and life as cleary as we do!
Or perhaps it's just me.

 

[TillyMilly]

Funnily enough it sometimes seems that Steampunkers have a hard time beleiving that people lived in anything other than Sepia colours. and Goths seem to recall that The Victorian Era was spent exclusivly in full black mourning dress

No offense meant Steamies and Goths- you know I love you!

 

[i_am_the_scruff]

Does anyone else ever find it funny to think that people in the old days lived in color? Sometimes I almost find myself thinking they lived in black and white, or grainy color. Especially the Victorian era and early 20th century. It's so strange to imagine them seeing colors and life as cleary as we do!
Or perhaps it's just me.

I tend to think in exactly the same way lol

 

[Wire9Vintage]

It is strangely fascinating to see things in color from "back then." Have you seen these (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8029673.stm ) from the Edwardian Era? Just mesmerizing.

 

[Gracie Lee]

I do a lot of Victorian stuff, and it's always so hard to imagine the fashion plates and etchings in color. Especially when you read the descriptions, and it's some wacky combination that you'd never put together these days. I've taken to photocopying the pages of my favorite books and coloring them in, either with the colors described or with my own ideas, just to wrap my head around it. It's also funny to realize that, their fashion magazines were much like ours - very few practical everyday women really wore such elaborate togs on a daily basis, much less changed every two or three hours, from tea gown, to carriage dress, to walking dress, to dinner dress. But then you also see the very elaborate dresses, in the crazy colors, that show signs of wear. A lifestyle that's now extinct.

 

[Penny Dreadful]

It is strangely fascinating to see things in color from "back then." Have you seen these (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8029673.stm ) from the Edwardian Era? Just mesmerizing.

Wow those look so oddly modern!
When I was a little kid I was watching The Wizard of Oz, and at the moment Dorothy opens the door to Munchkin Land and everything turns to color, someone I was with, I forget who, told me that the whole world was actually in black and white until that moment. I was so young I actually believed him!

 

[Land-O-LakesGal]

Or think about greek statues with paint on them I have a hard time wrapped my brain around that one.

One Halloween I went as a black and white person from pleasantville before everything turned to color if you remember that movie.

 

[Penny Dreadful]

Or think about greek statues with paint on them I have a hard time wrapped my brain around that one.

One Halloween I went as a black and white person from pleasantville before everything turned to color if you remember that movie.

:O Pics!!

 

[Marla]

I read in a psychology textbook that in the Golden Era it was common for people to dream in black and white because that's the way they saw the world in movies, photographs, and on tv. Once all of those things transitioned to color it became a rarity for people to dream in black and white. I dream in black and white sometimes--a definite by-product of watching only old movies.

 

[CharlieB]

Every kid, i believe, has some odd notion that is not quite correct. This was mine. I really thought the world was black and white until about 1960!

The comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" made a joke on this many years ago, too. That is when I realized I was not alone in my misguided youth!