re: Why did people in the 60-70s look like they were in their 40s in their 20s?

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People in their teens looked a bunch older too back then.

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when I was a kid, kids just barely older than me were getting plucked up left and right by the draft and being sent off to Vietnam, carefree, happy go lucky, trying to work up the nerve to ask a girl out for a date one day and in the jungles of Vietnam in combat boots, humping a ruck with an M-16 in your hands a few weeks later, the ones that did make it back aged incredibly in such a short chronological period

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shite, I put on face lotion after my shower and shave in the morning that has SPF in it. Men didn't used to do that

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Sunscreen is about avoiding skin cancer, not just aging or trying to look good.

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Sunscreen is about avoiding skin cancer, not just aging or trying to look good.

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sure, of course it helps avoid skin cancer and that's the best reason to use it, but it also goes a LONG way in preventing the appearance of aging. My wife and her friends aren't thinking about skin cancer as much as aging when they cover themselves in sunscreen and wear big hats. It's about wrinkles

Ask any plastic surgeon. The way to stay looking young without surgery: don't smoke, reduce sun exposure as much as possible, use good moisturizer/lotion, drink lots of water, and exercise. I think people back in the day were in better shape than we were as a whole (not counting their smoker lungs), so it goes back to smoking and sun exposure.


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Take this picture for instance. This is a long haul truck driver whose face, after decades of driving, aged on the window side of the truck dramatically worse than the side of the face in the shade.

It’s because a young man of 25 was a grownup man back then; today most do not grow up until their late 30s. So a 25 year old dressed like a man and acted like a man, and he had the responsibility of a man.

I’ve posted this before, but I’ll do it here.

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Francis Younghusband crossed the most inhospitable terrain in the world to the Himalayas before being ordered to make his way home. Parting with his British companions, he crossed the Taklamakan Desert to Chinese Turkestan, and pioneered a route from Kashgar to India through the uncharted Mustagh Pass.[4] He reported to the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, his crossing through the Karakoram Range, the Hindu Kush, the Pamirs and where the range converged with the Himalayas; the nexus of three great empires. In the 1880s the region of the Upper Oxus was still largely unmapped. For this achievement, aged still only 24, he was elected the youngest member of the Royal Geographical Society and received the society's 1890 Patron's Medal.

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Younghusband was only 24 years old when he did this, and the account above does not do justice to what that young officer did. He was in disguise, speaking foreign languages, in constant danger of being enslaved.

Now, imagine a 24 year old today doing that. It’s nearly inconceivable.

Napoleon Buonaparte was 24 when he won The Siege of Toulon, 26 when he defeated the insurgents in Paris, and 29 when he became First Consul of France. He was not even a Frenchmen; French was not his primary language, yet he was the most powerful man in France before he was 30.

We have become so lazy that we don’t really consider people grown up until they are in their 30’s. People in their 20’s use “adulting” to describe taking on the barest of responsibility. It’s sad.

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74 now and look my age but I’m not very wrinkled,and haven’t had any trouble with skin cancers.I ‘m surprised considering how much time I spent in sun fishing and how many sunburns I had.Smoked also from 17 until 35.

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had an uncle that died in his late 90s, a baw's baw, island hopping with the Marines in the South Pacific during the 40s, worked outside his entire life, smoked and drank heavily as a young man, probably didn't know what sunscreen was, good looking old baw, never had a single wrinkle on his skin