AncientFaces Judging by the dropped waistlines, it's probably the 1920's. The 1910's had higher, more fitted waists, including the actual shirtwaist, as well as longer hemlines.
This looks like something my mother with her three sisters would do,,! " Carrying on" , as gran MA said, Dressed as these girls did,,even though they were living in a Depression!
Going by the dresses and especially the hairstyles, I'd say somewhere in the early to mid-1920s.
The photo below is from the mid-1920s. The older woman second from left (without the hat) is my maternal grandmother, and I know this was taken when she was in her 50s. My maternal grandfather had died in the early 1920s, so this was years after that.
Those ancestors of ours had a sense of humor - amateurs and professionals!
Based on the solemn non-smiling expressions of our ancestors in old photos, you'd think they didn't have a sense of humor. Well these pictures prove we're wrong. Since it's inception, photography has ...
D.O.B. 2/29/1948. In Santa Monica, Ca. I am a Retired Pediatric Nurse after 40 years. My Interests: genealogy, painting, photography, collecting semi precious stones, gold prospecting. All of my family genealogy is listed on Ancestry.com site under Harrington
My mother is Pamela Thompson. My dad is Richard William Russell. My mom grew up in Fenwick Michigan. My dad grew up in Hart Michigan. They had 2 kids together. Living in Michigan. I have other Half siblings out there somewhere