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Yellow posted...

I know women from that era were like... young at the time, but god were they unattractive

It's a makeup thing. People usually don't realize how much of an effect it has (especially when you think of women today who supposedly "aren't wearing much makeup" when they go for the "natural" look), but it plays a huge role. If you compare what women looked like in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood versus what women with no makeup and unstyled hair looked like from the same era, it kind of becomes clear that it's more that the standards of beauty then were different from today. Most women from the past you find unattractive would be way more attractive to you if they were just styled and made up to fit modern standards.

(As a converse, imagine if people in the past could look forward and see modern e-girls. They wouldn't think they were beautiful, they'd probably think they were some sort of aliens.)

Of course, when you combine that with the whole "people in the past age faster" thing (smoking, lack of sunblock, and poor nutrition all play a role in prematurely aging skin), and the fact that people in the present have way more options for plastic surgery, that doesn't really help either.

(Plus, in that specific video, none of the women were really all that young. They're playing teenagers, but Stockard Channing is literally in her mid-30s, while Olivia Newton-John is 30 and the rest are mainly in their late 20s. They're also women from the late 1970s trying to duplicate the styles of the 1950s. So, it's kind of weird all around).