Yes, that's true. Same reason that the golden age of cosy mysteries was during and just after WW2. People had plenty of real-life horrors. In stories they wanted horrors that were on a small scale and neatly tied up with the bad guys getting their just deserts at the end.
So relevant now, when we're in the midst of a pandemic which took the lives of 2M+ people. At least we have the technology which reminds us of all the good actions and people! Imagine not having an uplifting reminder of all the good in the world which would give people hope! Of course there were ways people had hope still, but it was completely different then to how it is now! This video is a much-needed homage to all the women of the past.
People used to go to the movies to get away from the hardships of daily life, to be transported to a place where things were better. They don't make many movies like that anymore.
@@tornadogirl9099 Probably because we're not actually fighting a real war, like WWI and WWII, or struggling for a potato like the Great Depression. What people want NOW, is struggle, not peace, much like the gladiatorial games in "peaceful" Rome. Fascinating how that works, huh? In peace we glorify violence. In violence, we glorify peace.
Yeah men and women where more determined for greatness before the world wars. The Global Cabal caused the world wars to destroy European societies because they where getting to be much too free and prosperous for their liking.
In researching my husband's family's genealogy I was distressed at how many woman, both upper and lower class, were forgotten. Two years ago when I came upon Historical Sewing I saw most of the UA-camrs replicating the more regal and costly gowns. Then I remembered the women in our family trees who were forgotten. My first project was the complete ensemble of a lower class, everyday woman, complete hand sewn. In making this project I seemed to connect with our ancestors. My ancestors, while I might not know their names, are not forgotten now. This was an experience I didn't anticipate in sewing historical garments. But I'm so happy I did.
this is brilliant. do you have any social media where pictures are available? id love to see the hard work you must have put in! it’s so important to remember the women that weren’t glamorous celebrities. they didn’t have a choice, but they were strong. i admire women today, as well as women from the past
Meanwhile I know the names of 7 generations of my ancestors despite them being common farmers Mostly the caste system in India was pretty bad but for this one it worked out. There was a specific caste which had the job of keeping people's lineages recorded through generations ( this caste still exists but they no longer do that kind of work anymore)
Most of my dad's ancestors were workers in some kind of factory or were craftsmen. It becomes a bit difficult prior to 1830 because documentation was rare for common people.
im genuinly asking, how are you saying only women get forgotten in genealogy? lol what? everyones family tree has men and women in it and either you dont know any or you know them all there really cant be an in between.
I am actually in love with this. Idk if it's just me but now a days people tend to romanticize the older days/ages when they don't pay attention to the real thing or how things were back then.
As someone who recently did costume design for a show set in the 20s, thank you so much for doing this. Whenever I mentioned costumed for the 20s people assumed bobs, flappers, and too many rhinestones. In our show that wasn't the case. The women in our show were factory workers, strikers, the poor who couldn't even afford a bathtub in their house. Costumes were made up of single sheet, hardly fitted dresses. Hair pulled up in buns or cut too short to keep it out of the machinery in factories. Mussed up sweaters that didn't quite fit right. Nobody looked glamourous. Nobody looked like they came out of the Great Gatsby. Society likes to forget real people when they look back at fashion through the ages. Its incredible to see someone actually doing so.
I like that newer period pieces show lots of parts of society. Even in something like Downton Abbey there's as many scenes "upstairs" and "downstairs," and you don't so much wish you could live in this romantic great house as you do realize just how imbalanced it was, and how World War I and labour movements particularly shocked people out of that. Yes, the nobility get new dresses every other episode and it's cool to watch the subtle style changes until you're suddenly in full dropwaist flapper gowns and black tie (instead of white), but the servants are wearing the same Sunday best to church for years, and they're the richer of the working class. The contrast makes every character more real because they all existed at the same time, like the impoverished and wealthy (or even middle class and billionaires) still do today.
@@ollieols2064 its not one you would have heard of, but it was called Strike 1929. We were the first to perform the show. It was actually written about a pretty important mill strike that happened in my area.
1933 was the year my grandfather was born. I love talking to him about his childhood because it is amazing how far he’s come as a Black man living in America born during the 30s.
Um, if I could make a suggestion (I really don't mean to impose), maybe consider recording some of those? It would be good for your own memories, and also a benefit for its place in societies collective history 🕰
I think the same about my great-grandmother, despite not having met her, I find it surprising that having been born in 1888, and poor, managed to survive so many different problems, and live more than 100 years She was a midwife so that must be why she didn't die giving birth to one of her 9 children.
@@broomhilder I just talked to him last night but when I call him tonight I’ll tell him he was asked about on the Internet 😄 He always gets a kick out of that and when he sees social media posts on his birthday.
If I become an old woman and I see someone reducing early 21st century fashion to "the Mean Girls look" and "the Kardashian look" I'm gonna be very upset.
@@Mochitachi70 I know, I’m a girl and fifteen, I were an older woman looking back at the past thinking this how everything in 2010s are with Kim Kadashian or Mean girls look. We weren’t all like that, I detest plastic surgery and Kylie Jenner’s lips ugh, give me a break. The kadashian are talentless and very superficial family who doesn’t understand the concept of Beauty (At least in my opinion). I’m a naturally pretty with zero plastic surgery, in fact at my community, there weren’t any bullies like from Mean girls or any movie representing High school. Besides Beauty is found everywhere, not like in movies, advertisement, and modeling.
My grandpa was never a picky eater. “Eat what you take, and take what you eat”, he would say at every meal. True to someone who grew up in the great depression. But something speaks even deeper about how the great depression scarred him. He will eat rotten fruit, he will drink sour milk, but he will never touch a mushroom. Because as a child, that’s what he ate day-in and day-out, because that was the only food they were able to find growing along the fence and side of the house. And he has never eaten a mushroom since his childhood, because it reminds him of the poverty. I dont know of any stories of my grandma like that, but i know they must’ve both been poor together, as they didnt even have working plumbing in their home until my mom was 10, so about 1970. My grandparents grew up in canada. Widespread poverty and difficult times were not so far ago.
@@Ms-up1qx I’m sorry. English isn’t my native language, nor is it a language I have used in everyday conversation in over a decade. I believe I have been using the phrase incorrectly. I looked it up, and realized what made no sense, unfortunately I can not remember what point I was trying to make. There may have been a comment above mine that has since been deleted but I can not be entirely positive. I have now deleted my own as it makes no sense and I did not ever intend to do harm to any individuals. I will be more careful speaking English in the future.
My grandma is kind of like this. She lives in an assisted living home and gets meals served to her on the daily. She usually doesn’t eat all of her food, and she’ll always store her leftovers in her refrigerator, despite the fact she probably won’t eat it since she’ll just get served another meal the next day. I’m assuming this stems from her childhood in the great depression.
My grandparents also grew up in the depression. If my grandpa couldn't shoot game or catch fish, then they didn't have any meat to eat. When they died we found at least a years worth of food, precious metals, guns, and ammo carefully stockpiled, just in case. Really makes me appreciate everything that I have now.
Same! It's 23:30 and my mind is just like "ooof! my heart!" All women are real women, but we, as a society, often over look the day-to-day workers, focusing on the glamorized "influencers" of our society to be the standard.
We are, and always have been, more than just the clothes we wear. There's nothing wrong with appreciating historical fashions but this was a beautiful and moving reminder that for many women clothes like that were as unattainable as couture is for most of us today. I really enjoyed seeing women defined by what they did as a counterpoint to all the videos about what they wore. Also, Karolina's acting skills are on point: she conveyed so much just with her eyes. The nurse especially looked *traumatised*.
This reminds me of an alternative interpretation of the phrase "well behaved women rarely make history" The interpretation being that, there are plenty of women throughout history you'll never hear about because they were "well behaved" and didn't really shake things up that much. But, that doesn't make them less important; their contributions shaped the world just as much as anyone else's and they deserve recognition too, even if we may not know them by name. And that, consequentially, you shouldn't feel bad about living a modest life. The modest contributions are just as important as those that make headlines, and we should celebrate them too. So, yeah, don't forget real women
So well put. I didn't even have anything to say along these lines, but while and after reading your content, it felt like all of what you've mentioned is exactly what I had in mind. Quite the strange feeling I'd say, but well, maybe that might just be I've believed all along. After reading the quote "well behaved women seldom make history" I found a really good article Medium, thanking all the women the loud and the quite alike. I was touched after reading it. I may be wrong, but you seem quite the reader. If I'm right about it, could you suggest some good books, mostly philosophical, or based on myths?
People like to attribute that quote to Marilyn Monroe, but it was actually a Quaker woman many years earlier, and that is exactly what she meant by it.
Karolina Zebrowska, thank you for reminding us all that there is more to history than fashion. Women were just as real then as they are now. They had jobs. They had lives. They loved, they cried, they laughed, and they died. They may be gone, but they are still our big sisters. They have a lot to teach us.
Makes you wonder what we younger sisters make for the ones after us. Will we make as large an impact as the generations before us, and I cannot wait to see what future generations hold. Also, Karolina is queen!
@@theinfinity2988 this is incredibly serious since this isnt sugarcoating beauty from richies or famous people or whatever, rather, she's shown us what beauty from that certain time would be. And most of the time, it shown us how difficult life was for women back then. They fought for their rights to vote, then became domestic workers, and became war nurses in WW2. Hard. Unlike others, that shown us mainstream looks from each century, she shown us true beauty. That beauty is the fighting spirit of women.
Me too, I can imagine the 1950's being the Poodle Skirt Teen Girl and a Beaten House Wife, 1960's can be Hippies and the wife of a soldier that just got killed in Nam, the 1970's can be Disco and a female truck driver (Not realistic, but the trucker faze of the 1970's is always fun in how popular it was and how people try to forget it because poor people) 1980's can be a puke cocktail of colors and just a regular girl of the time.
I'm imagining that 2010 is a teacher struggling with the death of her students in a school shooting and so far, the 2020s would be a doctor or a nurse (once again) or a grocery store worker working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both would be plausible as long as portrayed in a respectful manner (and I know that she would :) )
Her outer beauty aside, she is an incredible actress, even just with her eyes. I felt like I could really see the struggle in each "different" woman's eyes. She would have made a great silent actress!
She’s saying that beauty is also found within the women who worked endlessly, toiled all day, dragged themselves into what the world had thrust upon them and raised those around them up with their efforts. Beauty is not movie screens, magazines, advertisements, but it is found in each and every soul that breathes. Beauty is no one; beauty......beauty is every one.
I do not understand why this video got so many negative reactions. In my opinion this was one of the best "fashion through decades" videos out there. Good job fighting the stereotypes!
I think it's because another website who makes those 'beauty through the ages' or '100 years of beauty' didn't like Karolina doing it better than them, and they attacked her in one of their videos, sending their viewers over here to click on the dislike button.
Kay Zee Perhaps it is because this video is not meant to focus on the fashion (also hats and hairdos are a part of fashion) but on the people (specifically women) who lived in these decades and to highlight why it is often a negative thing for “100 years of fashion” videos to only show things rich people or famous people wore, which for many people romanticises that era when in fact it was not as pleasant as displayed.
This video made me realize there is no perfect era and there was never a perfect era and nor will there be one anytime soon. That’s why we have to be grateful for small things that make us smile from time to time in life because they are going to be the memories we will look back on when and if things get tough and say “i was born in the right time”
I love watching Downton Abbey, but know for a fact I would have to be a downstairs staff member had I lived then. Pretty sure that escaping the servant life was why my ancestors immigrated to Canada, then to the U.S.
Really? There might never been a perfect era, but all the eras in humanity were better compared to this one...this century is tge end line of humanity, 2050 might be the end of the world. I am thinking seriously to end my life since I live in such dark times...
@@alex9920ro why you have a lot to live for.. mankind evolved tremendously in 50 yrs... in your timeline of now there will better things to come , don't let things happening around define your thinking ..strong will people r going to change the path for the world and all people.. stay positive and do not fear ahead ..you r value as anyone on this planet..stay strong and don't ever give up on yourself.
@@alex9920ro That's not true at all. You should be grateful to live in arguably the most peaceful time; where almost everyone has freedom of expression and access to information with basic medical care. Imagine living in a time where you could die from a common disease and rights were non-existent; not saying that some people don't still but for the most part, things have gotten much better.
I saw for the first time the beauty of my grandmother represented in this video, a domestic servant after the spanish civil war. She was beautiful without the make up, the fancy dresses and the glamour. She worked very hard to sustent her family.
This is so beautiful. It's devastating, but beautiful to see the accuracy and pain in each woman. The early 1900s was not all glamour and jazz, it was often suffering and pain. It's incredible to see it delivered in such a raw way.
Oh shit. This hit harder than I expected. My grandmother lived through the Great Depression. She watched her mother die in their own home during childbirth, and the child she bore shortly thereafter. The guy that got her pregnant abandoned them all before she gave birth. None of them were old enough to know what to do to save their mothers life. In the 40s she married a transient alcoholic welder who gave her ten kids and refused to hold down a job anywhere long enough to raise them. Many points in their life they starved, lived in abandoned homes, moved every three months for years. People often forget that for most of America the "american dream" is a dirty lie told by people who are after what little money we have. Most of us don't live nearly as well as what is shown on TV.
Thank you for sharing your story and family background. It's true, we all have to come up with and adapt to the times and come up with our own meaning for what our best possible life will look like. And in the past the american dream was a promise that offered nothing, did nothing but was an empty platitude that obscured how much an american family can endure suffering or hardships.
@@ivlivsvalerivsmaiorianvs3884 No, no its not. Its a phrase. Its a metaphor. Its not palpable. Its a DREAM, thats why its called "The American Dream". You're missing on the big picture. Just because people claim to have a dream, doesn't mean we don't live in a society that takes advantage of its workers and tries to normalize bullshit that frankly shouldn't be happening, or needs to be desperately called out on. You go tell a family drowning in tens of thousands in medical debt about the American dream and see what good that does them. We have so much to fix and it should be an embarassment that we can be so modern and still have poverty. If the US was as good as it claims to be, you wouldn't have people suffering the way people are. We may be forward facing in capitalistic means but the amount of second thought and compassion we give to our nieghbors who are silently trying to maintain face as they suffer tragic losses is a fuckin joke.
@@neonflights5951 I never said the US was perfect and I agree there are a lot of issues to fix but I see leftists everyday saying we need communism and that's just stupid
@@ivlivsvalerivsmaiorianvs3884 Who is discussing or brought up communism? We are discussing poverty and the fact that people suffering from it get ignored or treated like they dont exist, despite making a sizeable amount of everyday Americans.
@@bradmccallum24 well after wars , during wars or people just working in the military, people were often so severoy injured they'd die and it was common. Nurses did see people die, most day
when she’s says real women, she means the working class. the ones that lived through the hard things. all of the other videos in this genre only show you the minority of women, the tv stars and such. she’s highlighting the reality of the time, and paying homage to the women that worked so hard.
Weren't the majority of women back then housewives or something? Sorry to come across as sexist but I'm pretty sure until the 1960s most women had a husband and kids and stayed home. Also she forgot the flapper and women getting the right to vote in 1920s or 1910s if she's in Brittain (though I know that some countries had a ways to go before giving women the right to vote). But all in all it was good.
@@kelsyebillman8694 if you read marxist literature, working class housewives ARE working class. Domestic Labour is still Labour. by "real women" she means how women actually looked in those times, not the peak of fashion and beauty.
@@kelsyebillman8694 actually most women couldn't afford staying at home. Middle classes were still a minority. Working class women had to work, if nothing else, they washed laundry at home. Also children had to get work really young around seven or even younger. The idealised picture of victorian domesticity was just that, an idealistic goal, nothing more. For a woman to stay home and only take care of the house was a luxury and even then she didn't do it without servants. Women taking care of household all by themselves came around first in the fifties, when most people couldn't afford servants anymore and more and more people could find other work, which paid more and had fixed hours.
Kelsye Billman If the family had enough money then the wife could stay home, but lots of families relied on both parents working. It’s why this myth of women in the workplace being the cause of the “ruin of the American family” is so ridiculous. Poorer women have been working since the Dark Ages.
This caused me to tear up. I really appreciate how you try to show the reality instead of sugar coating women through the history. It really hasn't been kind for our sisters of the past.
my grandma ate "rice mixed with chalk" which the Japanese gave to the locals when they colonised my country. Made me feel thankful that I live in the modern era uwu
My grandmother grew up dodging Russian bombs in Finland. Food was rationed. They did okay because her mother picked mushrooms and berries. We should all remember and understand these stories we were told.
The nurse one really hit home for me. I work at a nursing home and two of our elderly residents (90+ years old) figured out that they were nurses together in the same unit during WWII and one of them even put on her old uniform to reminisce. It was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed
Being a RN for nearly 30 years, the one about the nurse struck me as well. I can't even imagine what those brave women experienced. This was a phenomenal video. It touched my heart. Thank you sister ♡
I am a RN too. I worked in homecare. I cared for a woman who lived in London between 1933-1948 , the stories she told. She was a teacher of young children who lived on the streets and docks ....Amazing
My grandmother's sister was a military medical instructor-she was engaged in the evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield and providing them with first aid, as well as accompanying the wounded to the field hospital. Compared to this occupation, hell is a cozy and quiet place, like a sanatorium-resort. Imagine how a fragile girl myself pulling healthy man, whose explosion tore off the hand and which is unconscious. And on it recklessly shoots a couple of German men, these Europeans, from a machine gun... Europeans are now wondering why Russians remember that war and how it will not be forgotten. Everything is simple. It took fourteen people in my family to fight that war. He returned from the war five. three soon died from wounds and acquired diseases, having lived eight-ten years. Only two survived to a relatively advanced age...
The image of the nurse hit me hard. She looks like she's had to seen someone she cares about die. And I've had to see that from a young age. In a way I can relate but in other ways I want to understand even more.
When she says real women, it's not just that she means the working class, but that it was the average woman. You're looking at 80-90% of the population. Some were glamorous of course, but that leaves some even worse than this. Life is historically hard for women. Stay strong girls!
@@ProudestMonkey100 The working class can refer to middle class, which is NOT 90% of the population. That leaves out women in poverty who may have worked under the table jobs or worse. But even if you consider that as working class, you do leave out women who technically didn't have to work for wages, but definitely ran their homes. My statement was simply to further drive home the idea that women have always been working against the handicap society puts on them and that it wasn't just servants or those that required employment...it was all but the top of the top.
Just a small correction - life is historically hard for everyone. You could easily find a male counterpart for each of the women Karolina portrayed here.
i have a theory that karolina is actually an immortal and did, in fact, live through these decades, and that's why she's so phenomenal at pulling off the looks (and why she is so knowledgeable about actual, genuine fashions of the times)
Your 1900's women female factory worker... so good. It felt like a moving photo of the Lowell, MA, Mills Girls. Shocked. It's the exact depiction of what they looked like. Amazing work.
And Manchester, NH (named for her English older sister) and many other mills in the area. We have a statue of a mill worker going down the steps around 1900/1910 to or from her work.
Thank you for this. We are British and our grandmothers were nothing short of incredible. During WWII they worked in factory's, put of fires, cared for strangers that needed help, took in other people's children, were nurses caring for the wounded, all while sleeping in underground train stations. British women kept the country together during the battle of Britian; and they deserved to be remembered for how amazing they truly were.
During World War 2, my great grandmother was an escapee from a Japanese Comfort Women Camp, after which she ended up joining the manchurian resistance fighters that were operating in the Northern regions of Korea. The image of the nurse made me wonder if those eyes were the same she had, looks like she had seen far too much for anyone to remain wholly sane.
Recently I read a book depicting japanese comfort women camps (i never knew they existed before then) and reading your comment nearly made me cry, i can't even imagine everything she's been through, she's so brave, hope she got to live a wonderful life after she escaped
"History is written by the victor" - ie. history is written by the rich. This video is an amazing piece of class consciousness. Hail to the real women of history, the ones whose names will never be remembered.
1:29 You can see a bit of fear on her face. Imagine, how much those nurses had to see. All the bloodshed, the men in pain, men that died because there was nothing to do to save them... Poor nurses and soldiers. I can't imagine how much they went through in those times! On a happier note, I do like all of those outfits. Vintage style without vintage morals for me!
That background piano music paired with the different sounds of each era is so haunting. The music from the 1940s glamour era followed by those war sirens from the same decade gave me chills.
There are these sirens that go off in my neighborhood to alert the fire department. They often scare me when they go off late at night because of the almost identical sound it has to a bombing siren from WWII.
Only complaint about this video? It wasn't longer.❤ Hon, this video (though older and you continue to grow in knowledge and skill, as we all should) is one of the best "fashion through history" type videos. I teach a class about this every few years to high schoolers. I show the fashion images, of course, but then we look at and discuss the reality of the clothing for each era. It's one of my favorite classes to teach! Well done, madam! Well done!
Same. I love the less flashy and more average/working class fashion and mundane history. People love to forget certain parts of history and lots of things are being erased and forgotten. It's crazy how people seem to not remember the GD already.
to anyone who showed up to this video seven years later and plans to cancel karolina for implying that female celebrities and wealthy women arent real women: she only wants you to see who women are beyond the glitz and glamor of each decade. even those celebrities and socialites had their own struggles and hardships, they weren't just pretty faces.
@@KaylaTheKindOne specifically, the argument you are imagining that someone else has made, that Karolina should be cancelled for not speaking out for rich women, is facile and silly. If you want a juicy fight with your imaginary enemies consider accusing them of racism and fatphobia an example: "to anyone who showed up to this video seven years later and plans to cancel karolina for implying that only thin white women have real beauty:..." then you give your pre-emptive counterargument and move on
@@randawilson6916 yeah. When some girl comments "I was born in the wrong era!" Like which era do you want, the one where you'd be burned at the stake for showing your shoulders and knees, the one where you'd be executed if your husband did something wrong even if you were innocent, or the one where the whole world was at war for a whole portion of a century (WW1+WW2+Cold War in 1900s)
Fr like idk what made people think being a hippie was glamorous but in most cases it wasn’t about clothing it was a mindset, and there protests weren’t aesthetic they were protesting for a right to live
@@thegoliath9310 true and that's because they have no idea how life was back then so they don't really know.. we didn't even had rights, education and even mental illness was not taken so serious l bet it was horrible.
Most of us has a timeless face. As people, we never change. You can wear an outfit from the 90's. You will you like a persson from the 90's. People have timeless faces, unless the put some weird plastic in them. But that is a truly timeless face.
Jon Talbot Um. Okay. I think Fae Fog may just be talking about the UA-cam trend of highlighting women’s fashion in the upper class and such, and this video had a nice spin to that where there was a little more focus on the actual, more realistic lives of women during these time periods.
This video is amazing. I have watched it countless times, and it always gives me shivers. It's beautiful, educational, empowering like nothing else I've ever seen really, and Karolina is an amazing actress, communicating everything with just a tiny movement of her mouth or the look in her eyes
Vlad Ț it’s more the inhuman working conditions within factories that are the issue. And the only reason women weren’t over 50% is because they also had kids working in those factories. Many people died. Thank your local union today!
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@@katherinemorelle7115 Unions are socialist trash.
I love this! What you say, "please don't forget the real women," was so touching that I jumped up, pumping my fist, saying, "YES." I think you have great content 👏👏👏👏
I like the point made with this video. Whenever I see a pop culture "through history" and they get to the 30's and show a smiley and snazzy styled person I always think "wait a sec, weren't millions of people unemployed and people were on the streets starving?" I know the pop culture videos aren't trying to be completely accurate, but it's nice to see something like this.
And not only in the 30's. Most of them(including Buzzfeed) shows only the 'noble' people of certain centuries, like in the 18'th century or the egyptian era, like if the other people didn't matter and didn't have their own style.. Depicting an entire era just using one icon or one country, is not fair and extremely unrealistic. Spred ignorance is always a stupid thing to do, no matter how 'accurate' you want your video or not.
0ElectricBlue Even though the Great Depression hit America in the 1930s but many countries never recovered between ww1 and ww2, such as Germany which is why they were so eager to trust Hitler and every word he said. And yeah nearly every episode of something like "100 years of beauty" depicts people smiling and laughing for the 1920s-30s when really only America had a good decade for the 1920s before the market crashed in 1929 and people were miserable in 1930s
0ElectricBlue it is really sad that people seem to over look the unemployment but the culture of those years was to over look anything bad and to turn to the beautiful actresses, actors, and radio shows not the poverty
@@Opal5674 Not always, just most of the time. You're right, yes, but what would we teach about the peaceful parts of history? What can we learn from that? Without going into more depth than we would otherwise, not much, so it makes sense to focus at first on the larger events, the ones that shaped history the most. Outside of history classes, people don't like to remember the bad things :/ which is fair enough, but the hard-working people in said difficult times deserve to be remembered.
@@spookyspirits4462 Well, you can learn how people lived back then which is mostly erased from the history books. I find it much more interesting. It gives you a different perspective. During school you learn details about wars and you are told to be amazed by the bravery of the king invading a new land. But that meant always the same, boring thing - death of the loved ones, poverty and famine. 90% of population is erased from the history, you see things from the perspective of the royalty. And that's not a perspective many people can relate to.
@@zagubionemysli I completely agree :) I've always found how the majority of the population lived much more interesting than the royalty, and I think it's important to remember.
The Jenna Pearl Things weren't all that difficult from the 50's on. Even though there was segregation, black people could still dress fairly average. And even after that, casual styles were becoming the norm and lifestyles were a lot easier for almost everyone.
Oh, totally. But I'd like to see what lower-class women actually wore in the fifties... or the chicks in the eighties with normal makeup.. that sort of thing. :)
The Jenna Pearl What I mean is, the gap between the rich and the poor styles is closing more and more each decade. Soon enough there won't even be much of a difference.
The Jenna Pearl My great grandparents had a lot of slides from the 50s (and sometimes earlier!) so I was fortunate enough to get a tiny glimpse into the fashion of that era. My family in that generation was pretty poor - mainly first-generation Italian immigrants. Although I saw some pictures of the women wearing dresses (much simpler than the 50s pinup stuff you see), nearly everyone wore pants and some sort of blouse tucked into their pants. I think it might be because they always had to work (housework, gardening, or otherwise) and dresses were impractical for that sort of thing. When they did wear dresses, they looked like they were homemade, but I can't be sure. I know they recycled EVERY piece of clothing (eventually making quilt squares one the fabric was no good for anything else). They also all had very short hair - shoulder length hair was the longest I saw any of them have, and it was usually much shorter than that. It might have been different for wealthier families, or even other poor families, but this is what I have seen from the old family slides.
I don’t think there’s a problem with romanticizing history a bit for cinematic purposes but I believe it’s important still have the truth known. Informative video 👍.
Romanticizing time periods can be harmful because it can lead people to have foolish misconceptions and a certain attitude about their own time and consequently adopt weird and shallow conservative ideologies as an attempt to get that romanticized time period (that only exist in their minds) back. But I guess that already happened.
toledo I definitely agree. Nostalgia is all well and good, but a lot of harm can come from it. Case in point, “Make America Great Again” as a slogan. It’s about trying to return to a historic ideal that didn’t ever really exist in the first place.
@@silverco2560 I want to say that it led to people misusing the word conservatism (which is about leaving it as it is, maintaining the status quo) with reactionary views. Reactionism is a movement to "bring things back as they were before", i.e. Make America Great Again is NOT a conservative viewpoint, but a reactionary one trying to return to "good ole' days".
toledo Bologna. It’s NOT harmful. What’s harmful is the idiocy of the people that live in this world today that take things literally. Unfortunately we live in a time where people believe the first thing they hear, and don’t do the research themselves. We’ve gotten lazy. There’s nothing wrong with romanticizing anything.
Maybe romanticizing was the wrong term for me to use, I just think it’s ok to remember, reminisce and play with the best parts of a time as a writer as long as the reality of the time is still known. Like i think ninjas wearing all black clothes, jumping on roof tops, and all of them having awesome swords is really cool and can make for really cool games,shows, and movies...but that’s not how it happened at all and that’s ok. Because I’m not an infant, I can differentiate fiction from history. Also I’m not saying you can’t make awesome stories using reality but it’s the writers choice to try or not.
@@charliej8295 I'm not saying it isn't, just that it was interesting to see someone capture that from back then as opposed to only focusing on middle to upper-class fashion. History tends to ignore anyone else.
It gave me goosebumps especially the suffragette. Real working women sometimes have their own versions of the current styles due to cost and availability issues.
This video gets recommended every once in a while and I always watch it. It gives me both joy, because of such good and honest presentation, and a nihilist emptiness, when I realize how "meaningless" our suffering is to certain other and the "great scheme of things".
Exactly. They show us history with women being accessories. Women have always been a part of history on factories, at war, during revolutions, in labs and more!
My grandmother was on munitions in the two world wars. In the second, a lump of molten aluminium landed on her foot and burned a hole in the flesh. She went and had it bandaged and was back at work the next day. Her daughter, my aunt drive and serviced vans through the war. She was never fleeced by a car mechanic afterwards.
Yes, thank you, and thank you *Suffragists* for all of *your* hard work too. These were the forgotten women who just wanted to be listened to instead of heard, who made real progress in tearooms while set-back by Suffragette stunts. I can't blame the Suffragettes for doing what they did, and I know that the Suffragists were working from their own position of privilege, but few seem to remember that the Suffragettes' noble, powerful strategies *didn't work.* That's not what got women the vote... some believe that their actions even delayed the cause. Of course, in the end, it was all a bit moot. Perhaps the Suffragettes kept the idea in the headlines and perhaps the Suffragists kept the men in charge aware of the issue, but it was really the work of women in war, 'ettes and 'ists alike, that got women the vote. After that it was the long slow process of British bureaucracy, pushed by those same women who worked hard through the wars. I don't know how it worked elsewhere.
This one was soooo much better than those other videos. They usually just show what popular movie stars or musicians wore. It’s a nice change to get a glimpse of what an every day women might’ve looked like👌🏼❤️
Yeah, even if the point of those Cut videos is to show how manufactured beauty is, it’s not gonna be that obvious. Karolina did a better job at making it obvious.
i just don't understand how would anybody believe those video are *real.women*?! Don't they have grandma and grandma's photo?? Obviously that's just Vogue style or.Hollywood style
I've been wondering about something for years. "Would I be a bad person towards others if I wasn't taught or if I didn't learn the hard way that we by default all deserve respect, compassion and gratitude? If I wan't 'sensible' would I be a xenophobe and someone who views some people as inferior?" The fact that I was reminded that women had to fight for their rights in this video just reminded me of those questions.
As someone studying social psychology, I think about this often. It can fill me with some uncertainty, but I try to turn that into instead feeling motivated to learn more and improve how I interact with others.
People died in that war. People lost their only friends and family. A single person with some pain deserves attention why? What about the men riddled with holes who never felt anything again (because they died)?
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver How stupid are you? No seriously, get your IQ checked. It may be negative. He's talking about one ww2 vet he spoke with. The reason we didn't mention other people is because we talking about one women. Thats like complaining about someone who had cancer beacause they aren't talking about other people who had cancer. Your comment is genuinely the most *stupid* thing I've seen all week.
I feel like in 100 years time people will look at Instagram models and Kim Kardashian and be like “so this is how they dressed!” When let’s be real the majority of us do not put that much effort into our appearance. The same goes for the women seen in the media in history.
Yep, no woman I know in real life look like these overly made up social media influencers or celebrities. They only represent a very small percentage of actual women.
Billie Støndenhodetska in the 1940s women put loads of effort in they’re appearance to appeal to themselves and men. Now everyone just wears leggings and a tshirt
I just read Cut's rant about your video and "who deserves realness", and God that was a wild thing from start to finish. From the strawman arguments to how they somehow made you responsible for the early suffragettes' racism, you could tell they were salty AF. Keep doing your amazing work, you magnificient Time Lord, and never mind the boring twats who would rather attack you than be at ease with their own work.
@@cashkromsupernerd1193 Looks like the Cut did not get the point of this video. Sure those fashion icons were real women, but they were also less than 1% of women combined. Therefore, Karolinas video is a lot more accurate. they are just salty bc she did it better without a huge team and a lot of money.
@@thedreamer4761 Besides, even fashion icons are not represented accurately in the propaganda posters and advertisements and movies. They still have to represent an ideal of women.
Remembering coming across this video years ago and glad to see it is still here. The idea behind this is a great one at showing reality vs glamorization. I noticed some saying that the movies in the 1930s were extra glamorized to provide escapism to those who wanted to forget the depression for a few hours, and that is very true and why we see films from that time that give the glitz and glitter but also give an uplift such as 42nd Street or ones that delve into the harsh economic times while giving hope such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (bear in mind I am focusing on mainstream American films). In reality, the struggles and hardships were real as showed in this video. Fighting for equal rights, struggling to find work, trying to survive, and then there were the horrors of wars. My great grandfather was the only one with a steady and stable job during the depression, and as such took in a lot of relatives to help them stay afloat even as he struggled. My great grandmother got so use to drinking evaporated milk because it was cheap that she drank it for the rest of her life. To all women out there, thank you for your hard work and struggles. We continue the fight and are grateful to your efforts.
My foremothers were peasants, washwomen, farmwives, factory workers and weavers. No education, working full-time *and* caring for a family. Neat to see some of this.
Yeah, as someone whose grandparents immigrated from rural India after the Second World War, I can't put into words how much in awe I am for all the women (and even the ones still there).
When people thing of PTSD they ususally associate it with military veterans being scared from combat. I can't imagine though the PTSD that those WW2 nurses must have. Day after day hour after hour constantly seeing the gruesomest of injuries caused by the war. A wounded soldier only has to face his own mortality. I nurse had to face everyones.
yeah let's not assume a nurse's ptsd is worse than a veteran who watched his mates die next to him and the whole war happen with all the gruesome things. nurses only see the aftermath.
*and dont get me started on ptsd caused by domestic violence.* so many people fail to realize that domestic violence can result in ptsd, it kind of upsets me.
A really good book that talks about this is called my story: war nurse. It's set in ww2 and the main character is a vad nurse and one of the climaxes of the story is how the nurses worked during dunkirk and the horrors they went through, when they weren't able to even mourn for a second
My great grandmother lived through so much and I'm grateful I got to meet her and she told her stories. She was born in 1923 and died 2013, she had a long and great life and seeing this video is so wild, to know what women looked like and went through in those times. Brave ❤
b h similar to my grandmother. She said her family didn't know the great depression happened until it was over. She said they always lived poor country and living off what they could produce. Her dad was a logger and everyone was subsistence farmer. For a lady who said she didn't notice the depression she saved like she did. Still to this day I feel light guilt when I throw away plastic Ziploc baggies followed by a smile thinking about her. I make sure to follow most of her other anti waste ways though.
kaylynn makes me miss my grandma!😭 mine was born 1918 and passed away in 2010. I was very lucky to know her for 22 years and heard lots of stories. She was one of toughest people I’ve ever known.❤️
My great grandmother just passed this past summer (2018) right before her 99th birthday. She was born in 1919 and lived through all of this. She was blessed to not be too touched by the great depression because her parents were very frugal and had good jobs. She was also an amazing artist and used to draw the fashion of the times. I have a portrait she drew of a class mate in 1935 and it is gorgeous
My great grandmother lived through the 2nd world war in factories. She was born in 1924 and died in 2016. I wish I’d got to hear about what she went through.
Really great...when people say "oh i was born in the wrong era!" they really don't know what they are talking about. The past was really hard for those normal people who didn't have loads of money... People are only thinking of fashion...people lived lives...many difficult lives.
Yes. I hate when people say that. Like. You live in the best, most prosperous era in history, shut up. As you are saying you were born in the wrong era, you are holding a tiny device in your hand with access to any piece of information in the world!
@@morganfreeman9106 indeed. my grandmother was a very uplifting and cheerful woman despite having seen two world wars, a famine and an epidemic that left her and her little sister the sole survivor of their family. and i havent heard her complain. but, when she saw the ages old first type washing machine, you couldnt imagine her wistful cry, oh i was born at the wrong time! nevermind what she had gone trough, troughout her life she had washed everything by hand, and with just tree or four bars of soap for a year. the lest was washed by ash water. i cant imagine any female with sufficiently old "female" relatives wishing to go back to "good old days". neither a male should wish for those days too, where most of humanity even in western world, was 3rd class, and males were doomed to die at the factory, never a stop to workhours.
"one out of nine women working in domestic service refers to Russia." I really appreciate that you mentioned Russian women, it's always nice to see someone from the west who doesn't strike our people out of a conversation about the history because of some political situation or something else. Also, I wanted to speak about another working class which was prevalent in Russia (USSR), which was originated a little earlier than 1920 and which was existed till 1992, but of course, the first part of the century was the hardest for the people. Maybe you already know about it, but still, I feel the need to talk because my grandmother(and grandfather but because of the context I want to speak about her) was one of them. So I am speaking about kolkhoz - collective farms, where people were doing agricultural work to give the most of the products of their work to the government and the country. During the war and after it the situation in the country was bad and in kolkhozes was hardly bearable. Villages had to function without adult men, so all the provision was made mostly by children and women. Guess this is the typical war scenario, but this didn't make things easier. My grandmother was a child during these times, so she had to work hard from a very young age like she was younger than 10 when she started to work in a field with adults. They had some schools, but a little percentage of the kids managed to end even 9 grades. Also, my grandmother's road to school was 5 kilometers long which is not that big but she was a child and she walked there alone even during the winter, and I think everybody can imagine how Russian winter looks like. And this was a road through (or near the forest) so she saw wolfes really close to her once during this walk. She left her home and moved to Kirov (a small city) to get a teacher's education because she was tired of the pain in her back and feared for her health. After it, she returned to her village, but as a math teacher, so her work was easier. And finally, at the age of 28, she left kolkhoz forever and moved to Saint Petersburg to my grandfather who was learning engineering in a military college in this city(they were from the same village but he left first so they had some long-distance relationships for a few years which was sweet:3) So they lived there, then my grandfather was sent to Baikonur (the city in Kazakhstan which has the biggest and most progressive cosmodrome nearby), so she went to this city with him. But during this time all this cosmos thing was hardly started and they live in a small house without any facilities. And also this place looked like a desert and had some desert insects, so once she was nearly bitten by a Solifugae( I didn't find it in English so it's a Latin name). And she avoided it only because of her quick reaction. It crawled in her dress, and she felt it and took it off, and threw it to the floor. My grandpa was sent there because he was meant to engineer a plumping system for the cosmodrome. And she found a job in a counting department(they basically did the math to find a perfect trajectory for rackets, perfect weight and etc.). So she saw the Gagarin flight with her own eyes even helped the cosmodrome to organize it. After it, she also lived in Ukraine, then moved to Russia again (to Voronej), and finally, her grown-up children helped her to move to Moscow. So that's where my family lives now. And after all this traveling she used to tell me that "you're are only needed where you were born". It rhymes in Russian(gde rodielsia - tam ie prigodielsia). That's so funny - she was the biggest traveler I knew herself XD She passed away a few years ago, and she had terrible back problems most of her life. And my grandpa is still with us. Right now were are out of Moscow with him and other family members in our country house. Well looks like it is mostly about my grandma, not about the kolkhozes. But I don't even think that someone will read it so I will let it be. But your video inspired me so I felt like I need to write it. Sorry for my language I'm not fluent.
Thank you for telling your story. I’ve heard some stories like this in my family too - I’m from Belarus and my parents are Russian. Your story really touched my heart, I can’t even explain why. Thanks for sharing. It was a great part of our history, I fell sad that all of this is going to pass without noticing. Thank you
The humanity in this is incredible. I love that it looked like she got a random person from each era like you could see their stories in their eyes. The sound effects and other elements was a nice touch. Plus the depression era and nurse were especially heart wrenching.
@@HSdirectioner5 So you're convinced you'll get laid, if you degrade women with your 'oppression' talk? That you telling us we are weak and fragile, and need YOU to tell us we are weak and fragile? Your Marxist Feminist teachers, are women's enemies.
@@jan_phd a lot of assumptions. I didn’t mention anything about “getting laid”, nor women being “weak and fragile”. I simply stated that women’s eyes hold a deeper story because they were the ones oppressed, not males. You brought up males in order to prove that males suffered more hardships. Next time get your emotions in check before blabbering out a response
@@HSdirectioner5 You're a misogynist, stop hitting me! You're totally wrong about men not being oppressed, but you have escaped that knowledge by deciding to be gay. I didn't mean getting laid by women. And no, we are not weak and fragile, and don't need you to defend us!
The 1910 one hit me hard. As a woman, I am so thankful to all of them who fought for us to have the very significant right to vote. This video touched my heart so deeply and made me grateful for every woman back then, from any decade. Great work!
Remember, in America, they only gave White women the right to vote! Women of color weren’t given the right to vote until the 60s, but again, that’s just in America.
Wow, this video is totally striking. I fully agree with you, we should say "Idealistic women through the years" because that's stupid to pretend every woman was a Monroed pin-up in the 50's, or a Louise Brooks-look-like flapper in the 20's. Congratulations and thanks for making this video. That was necessary.
Senseless? Why? Emotions are meant to be stirred and touched so that we can sympathize, empathize, with others. If we can see the past and recognize it's good and bad then we can make change. If we look and never have a reaction, begin to worry.
I just want to add to this that I also get teary there and I think part of it is Karolina's ability to project the reality of those nurses in such powerful ways. The first time I watched the video (and every time I've watched it since) the thing I notice is the weight she conveys... the death, the blood and gore.. the cruel reality of war. That's why it makes me teary at least. I don't think it's senseless.. it's being sensitive to the harsh reality so many had to face not just in that era, but in every era represented in the video.
I was touched by the poor version becouse of the sound of a crying baby in background. I'm watching it at my comfortable bad with my baby sleeping next to me, but when I was a child I lived in poverty, and I'll never, never, never forget the love of my mom despite everything - it was in Romania during Ceausescu. She let me and my siblings go to adoption to protect us. Now I know she's dead, and the saddest thing is she'll never knew we are fine...
This gave me goosebumps, wonderfully put together. I can only imagine their struggles, as well as yours changing makeup and hairstyles so many times to show us this
My Grandma was born in the middle of war. Her familly was having hard time to find food or take care of others when Men were forced to join the war and there was almost no jobs
As a studying history teacher, I couldn’t love this video more. You provided s beautiful portrayal of the everyday style and influence, along with an educated background explanation. Thank you 💕
Luna Amarantha Yes we can find that kind of faces in the real world. But media keep coming those model girls who look almost the same, same styles, same make up, same surgeries. You know
It also depends on where you live tho. And you know, these days, so many ladies follow makeup and plastic surgery trends that somehow make it harder to spot or appreciate their 'timeless' charms (if they do have them).
When people say they’re born in the wrong generation bc they romanticize the past. I always remind them about minority discrimination against black men and women. How poor conditions where, and what women went through. It’s terrible and I’m proud to be born in this era. (Of course there is still discrimination against minority’s)
J M I love 1940s fashion, music, manners, etc but I am very well aware of what they had to go through. Each generation will have their fair share of good and bad things and its up to you on how you wanna view that generation as a whole. I just try not to see 1940s as war and discrimination because there was much more than that :/
And who says that just because you were born in the 80s 90s or 2000s you can't dress like you were born in earlier eras? :) I feel like that's what most of those people mean, that they like the fashions of bygone eras. You don't have to live then to enjoy the fashion and style of the time. See "Why Are You Dressed Like That?" by Bernadette Banner: ua-cam.com/video/7BdnsB4RTcU/v-deo.html
EJ The Savage yes sure in the 40s there was more other things other than war and discrimination, yet it’d be hard to ignore and surpass if you lived then. And trying to ignore the fact it happened is ignorant. It drops in with romanticizing.
We all know women went through a lot of shit back in the days, but why does that make these "beuty trough de years" videos somethibg bad? Just becouse we enjoy those it doesn't mean we dont aknowlege about their issues in the past
what exactly is that message? women were nurses in WW2? women looked like women? hey, don't forget there have been physically attractive women throughout history? women, historically speaking, have been oppressed? women contribute to society? there were women during the period known as the great depression? i don't know if those outfits were exceptionally historically accurate or not, but they looked ok. she can put up whatever video she wants of course. an interest in history / tradition / culture is a healthy interest - but my god you people feel like she deserves the nobel peace prize for inventing sociology or something i think this girl just likes to dress up vintage and is trying to tie something significant to playing dress up and everyone is falling over themselves in an attempt to elevate it to something meaningful again what is exactly the enlightening new message from this video?
Thank you for doing this!! I totally noticed it too. 1920s women are always depicted as flappers when really the society viewed them as disrespectful and inappropriate, most women were still dressed like they did during the war, just better
Karolina, I know this is a comment years late, but I just watched this video. Your portrayals made me think of scraps of info I've gleaned about real women over the years. For instance, my good friend's mother, Candy, was raised during the depression, and very likely she and her mother resembled your look all too much. They had been a well-to-do family before the stock market crashed so, Candy's mom didn't know how to get along on very little money to start with. Somewhere along the line the 'man of the family' left as so many did. Candy and her mama ended up in a tent city in the south. Having had much household help, they had no skills to sew, clean, cook and otherwise make the best of their lot. But they survived. Another memory you evoked is about the state of the children of the working mothers you portray. Many of them were left with extremely inadequate care. I'll never forget the cold chills I got the first time I read in one of Grace Livingstone Hill's early books a description of the heroine's horror at seeing the crowds of tiny, unattended, barely dressed children that flocked in the streets and near the railroad tracks of a large city, playing, fighting, begging for food... Thank you for helping us get a glimpse of real history.
Amen. Beautiful! The Great Depression and the WW II nurse were, I think, my favorites. The combination of vulnerability and strength were heart-wrenching.
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I've heard during the depression people didn't want to be reminded of poverty so the movies were extra glamorous.
Yes, that's true. Same reason that the golden age of cosy mysteries was during and just after WW2. People had plenty of real-life horrors. In stories they wanted horrors that were on a small scale and neatly tied up with the bad guys getting their just deserts at the end.
So relevant now, when we're in the midst of a pandemic which took the lives of 2M+ people. At least we have the technology which reminds us of all the good actions and people! Imagine not having an uplifting reminder of all the good in the world which would give people hope! Of course there were ways people had hope still, but it was completely different then to how it is now! This video is a much-needed homage to all the women of the past.
@@auntymame9935 Even the escapist entertainment these days is full of graphic violence, angst, misery and general grimness.
People used to go to the movies to get away from the hardships of daily life, to be transported to a place where things were better. They don't make many movies like that anymore.
@@tornadogirl9099 Probably because we're not actually fighting a real war, like WWI and WWII, or struggling for a potato like the Great Depression. What people want NOW, is struggle, not peace, much like the gladiatorial games in "peaceful" Rome. Fascinating how that works, huh? In peace we glorify violence. In violence, we glorify peace.
No matter what the era, all the women had a look of determination in their eyes.
I really respect that.
No not really
@@kthevsamig4958 I kindly ask you to stfu
and nowadays we have self esteem problems...
@@kthevsamig4958 yes really
Yeah men and women where more determined for greatness before the world wars. The Global Cabal caused the world wars to destroy European societies because they where getting to be much too free and prosperous for their liking.
She has so much emotional in her facial expressions and eyes, it brings a lot of heaviness and realness to this video. Beautiful job
... You sure bout that?
@@billieeyelash5240 very imo 🤷♀️
@@lil.spooky.pumpkin what
@@billieeyelash5240 I was replying to your comment
I agree. Something about those big eyes of hers communicate emotions and beauty.
In researching my husband's family's genealogy I was distressed at how many woman, both upper and lower class, were forgotten. Two years ago when I came upon Historical Sewing I saw most of the UA-camrs replicating the more regal and costly gowns. Then I remembered the women in our family trees who were forgotten. My first project was the complete ensemble of a lower class, everyday woman, complete hand sewn. In making this project I seemed to connect with our ancestors. My ancestors, while I might not know their names, are not forgotten now. This was an experience I didn't anticipate in sewing historical garments. But I'm so happy I did.
this is brilliant. do you have any social media where pictures are available? id love to see the hard work you must have put in! it’s so important to remember the women that weren’t glamorous celebrities. they didn’t have a choice, but they were strong. i admire women today, as well as women from the past
Meanwhile I know the names of 7 generations of my ancestors despite them being common farmers
Mostly the caste system in India was pretty bad but for this one it worked out. There was a specific caste which had the job of keeping people's lineages recorded through generations ( this caste still exists but they no longer do that kind of work anymore)
Most of my dad's ancestors were workers in some kind of factory or were craftsmen. It becomes a bit difficult prior to 1830 because documentation was rare for common people.
im genuinly asking, how are you saying only women get forgotten in genealogy? lol what? everyones family tree has men and women in it and either you dont know any or you know them all there really cant be an in between.
Hand sewing something and taking all the time to make it makes it so much more special
I am actually in love with this. Idk if it's just me but now a days people tend to romanticize the older days/ages when they don't pay attention to the real thing or how things were back then.
people have always romanticized the past. humans havent changed, only our surroundings
The past was objectively better, humans were happier men and women
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Have you heard of "the great depression"?
I understand the 50s and 60s were happier but...
@@winterautumnfishing5215 Yeah war, much more sexism, racism, homophobia, slavery, poverty...etc.
What great times huh?
@@tartali2956 people were still happier
She has a stunning, classical appeal that is so attractive
Kae Toons Jesus.
What is classical appeal supposed to be
Kae Toons my girl Karolina do be slaying
@@cerae9561 she has a timeless face, shes the type of person that the older and more elaborate the clothes the more her natural beauty is accentuated.
Like just the kind I like
As someone who recently did costume design for a show set in the 20s, thank you so much for doing this. Whenever I mentioned costumed for the 20s people assumed bobs, flappers, and too many rhinestones. In our show that wasn't the case. The women in our show were factory workers, strikers, the poor who couldn't even afford a bathtub in their house. Costumes were made up of single sheet, hardly fitted dresses. Hair pulled up in buns or cut too short to keep it out of the machinery in factories. Mussed up sweaters that didn't quite fit right. Nobody looked glamourous. Nobody looked like they came out of the Great Gatsby. Society likes to forget real people when they look back at fashion through the ages. Its incredible to see someone actually doing so.
I like that newer period pieces show lots of parts of society. Even in something like Downton Abbey there's as many scenes "upstairs" and "downstairs," and you don't so much wish you could live in this romantic great house as you do realize just how imbalanced it was, and how World War I and labour movements particularly shocked people out of that.
Yes, the nobility get new dresses every other episode and it's cool to watch the subtle style changes until you're suddenly in full dropwaist flapper gowns and black tie (instead of white), but the servants are wearing the same Sunday best to church for years, and they're the richer of the working class.
The contrast makes every character more real because they all existed at the same time, like the impoverished and wealthy (or even middle class and billionaires) still do today.
Violet G. Just out of curiosity, which show was it?
@@ollieols2064 its not one you would have heard of, but it was called Strike 1929. We were the first to perform the show. It was actually written about a pretty important mill strike that happened in my area.
Like during the irish war for independence
comicconcarne Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries show that too.
1933 was the year my grandfather was born. I love talking to him about his childhood because it is amazing how far he’s come as a Black man living in America born during the 30s.
Um, if I could make a suggestion (I really don't mean to impose), maybe consider recording some of those? It would be good for your own memories, and also a benefit for its place in societies collective history 🕰
I really wish mine were still alive he was born in 1914.
I think the same about my great-grandmother, despite not having met her, I find it surprising that having been born in 1888, and poor, managed to survive so many different problems, and live more than 100 years
She was a midwife so that must be why she didn't die giving birth to one of her 9 children.
I hope the guy’s doing well! To be kicking since the 30’s is a feat worth noting!
@@broomhilder I just talked to him last night but when I call him tonight I’ll tell him he was asked about on the Internet 😄 He always gets a kick out of that and when he sees social media posts on his birthday.
I hope when they look back to 2020, people recognize we weren't all Instagram influencers and reality TV stars.
If I become an old woman and I see someone reducing early 21st century fashion to "the Mean Girls look" and "the Kardashian look" I'm gonna be very upset.
@@Mochitachi70 I know, I’m a girl and fifteen, I were an older woman looking back at the past thinking this how everything in 2010s are with Kim Kadashian or Mean girls look. We weren’t all like that, I detest plastic surgery and Kylie Jenner’s lips ugh, give me a break. The kadashian are talentless and very superficial family who doesn’t understand the concept of Beauty (At least in my opinion). I’m a naturally pretty with zero plastic surgery, in fact at my community, there weren’t any bullies like from Mean girls or any movie representing High school. Besides Beauty is found everywhere, not like in movies, advertisement, and modeling.
I straight up sit in sweatpants and t shirts all day
@@anteater9408 oml same
@@anteater9408 sweatshirt and leggings 😁
My grandpa was never a picky eater. “Eat what you take, and take what you eat”, he would say at every meal. True to someone who grew up in the great depression.
But something speaks even deeper about how the great depression scarred him. He will eat rotten fruit, he will drink sour milk, but he will never touch a mushroom. Because as a child, that’s what he ate day-in and day-out, because that was the only food they were able to find growing along the fence and side of the house. And he has never eaten a mushroom since his childhood, because it reminds him of the poverty.
I dont know of any stories of my grandma like that, but i know they must’ve both been poor together, as they didnt even have working plumbing in their home until my mom was 10, so about 1970.
My grandparents grew up in canada. Widespread poverty and difficult times were not so far ago.
@@Ms-up1qx I’m sorry. English isn’t my native language, nor is it a language I have used in everyday conversation in over a decade. I believe I have been using the phrase incorrectly. I looked it up, and realized what made no sense, unfortunately I can not remember what point I was trying to make. There may have been a comment above mine that has since been deleted but I can not be entirely positive. I have now deleted my own as it makes no sense and I did not ever intend to do harm to any individuals.
I will be more careful speaking English in the future.
@@nofinn1044 It's alright! I didn't mean to be rude or anything when saying that, I was simply curious. Don't worry, it's fine.
My grandma is kind of like this. She lives in an assisted living home and gets meals served to her on the daily. She usually doesn’t eat all of her food, and she’ll always store her leftovers in her refrigerator, despite the fact she probably won’t eat it since she’ll just get served another meal the next day. I’m assuming this stems from her childhood in the great depression.
My grandparents also grew up in the depression. If my grandpa couldn't shoot game or catch fish, then they didn't have any meat to eat. When they died we found at least a years worth of food, precious metals, guns, and ammo carefully stockpiled, just in case. Really makes me appreciate everything that I have now.
this is a great story told and all but bruh my parents are as old as your gtandparents
Why did the “please don’t forget real women.” In the end make me instantly emotional 😭
Same! It's 23:30 and my mind is just like "ooof! my heart!" All women are real women, but we, as a society, often over look the day-to-day workers, focusing on the glamorized "influencers" of our society to be the standard.
We are, and always have been, more than just the clothes we wear.
There's nothing wrong with appreciating historical fashions but this was a beautiful and moving reminder that for many women clothes like that were as unattainable as couture is for most of us today. I really enjoyed seeing women defined by what they did as a counterpoint to all the videos about what they wore.
Also, Karolina's acting skills are on point: she conveyed so much just with her eyes. The nurse especially looked *traumatised*.
Same! 🥺🧡🤍❤️🤎💛🖤💚💜💙
me too! i'm actually tearing up 😥
Now that you mentioned it im gonna cry for some reason lol
This reminds me of an alternative interpretation of the phrase "well behaved women rarely make history"
The interpretation being that, there are plenty of women throughout history you'll never hear about because they were "well behaved" and didn't really shake things up that much. But, that doesn't make them less important; their contributions shaped the world just as much as anyone else's and they deserve recognition too, even if we may not know them by name. And that, consequentially, you shouldn't feel bad about living a modest life. The modest contributions are just as important as those that make headlines, and we should celebrate them too.
So, yeah, don't forget real women
Women don't make history, they make the future.
It's the feminists movement the one trying to hide this women
So well put. I didn't even have anything to say along these lines, but while and after reading your content, it felt like all of what you've mentioned is exactly what I had in mind. Quite the strange feeling I'd say, but well, maybe that might just be I've believed all along.
After reading the quote "well behaved women seldom make history" I found a really good article Medium, thanking all the women the loud and the quite alike. I was touched after reading it. I may be wrong, but you seem quite the reader. If I'm right about it, could you suggest some good books, mostly philosophical, or based on myths?
Awesome!
People like to attribute that quote to Marilyn Monroe, but it was actually a Quaker woman many years earlier, and that is exactly what she meant by it.
Karolina Zebrowska, thank you for reminding us all that there is more to history than fashion. Women were just as real then as they are now. They had jobs. They had lives. They loved, they cried, they laughed, and they died. They may be gone, but they are still our big sisters. They have a lot to teach us.
Makes you wonder what we younger sisters make for the ones after us. Will we make as large an impact as the generations before us, and I cannot wait to see what future generations hold.
Also, Karolina is queen!
@@billieeyelash5240 girl you need a break, you've commented on almost every comment already like chill
@@billieeyelash5240 wtf
@@billieeyelash5240 why did you say "wha-"
@@billieeyelash5240 confused about what? You should probably do some text comprehension exercises in English. They do a lot of good, believe me.
Sometimes Karolina's 2 minute videos are hilarious, sometimes they are incredibly serious and important.
and we love her for that.
and we're here for it.
How is this incredibly serious and important I’m honestly lost? Isn’t this supposed to show like clothing styles in the past
@@theinfinity2988 are you dumb
@@theinfinity2988 this is incredibly serious since this isnt sugarcoating beauty from richies or famous people or whatever, rather, she's shown us what beauty from that certain time would be.
And most of the time, it shown us how difficult life was for women back then. They fought for their rights to vote, then became domestic workers, and became war nurses in WW2. Hard.
Unlike others, that shown us mainstream looks from each century, she shown us true beauty.
That beauty is the fighting spirit of women.
@@theinfinity2988 did yiu watch the video or not?
This is a real video. I would like to see 1950-2010.
Me too, I can imagine the 1950's being the Poodle Skirt Teen Girl and a Beaten House Wife, 1960's can be Hippies and the wife of a soldier that just got killed in Nam, the 1970's can be Disco and a female truck driver (Not realistic, but the trucker faze of the 1970's is always fun in how popular it was and how people try to forget it because poor people) 1980's can be a puke cocktail of colors and just a regular girl of the time.
Yes please! We would love more of this!
I'm imagining that 2010 is a teacher struggling with the death of her students in a school shooting and so far, the 2020s would be a doctor or a nurse (once again) or a grocery store worker working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both would be plausible as long as portrayed in a respectful manner (and I know that she would :) )
I second this!
Yes please!!! ♥️♥️♥️
Nurse here, love the homage to nurses in WWII.
Her outer beauty aside, she is an incredible actress, even just with her eyes. I felt like I could really see the struggle in each "different" woman's eyes. She would have made a great silent actress!
JJay very true!
Yo your latest videos be looking so profesional I love it! You look so beautiful 😻
Lmao, fairly ironic!
my thoughts exactly!
It's true .She is amazing.
She’s saying that beauty is also found within the women who worked endlessly, toiled all day, dragged themselves into what the world had thrust upon them and raised those around them up with their efforts. Beauty is not movie screens, magazines, advertisements, but it is found in each and every soul that breathes. Beauty is no one; beauty......beauty is every one.
I just have to say, your comment is beautiful. You deserve way more likes for this!
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I don’t follow what you mean with your question mark. What are you questioning?
Everything
true
This woman's face transports you to another time. She's really enchanting.
That's a really beautiful thing to say and I have to agree.
She's like an Anne Hathaway or an Audrey Hepburn.
Very beautiful.
so beautiful
True
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Karolina's beauty! Absolutely Stunning!
I know right! Those eyes :D
yeah, she is very beautiful
Her neckline 🤌🤌✨✨
@@Angela-lb9zi same T-T
She is uniquely beautiful
I do not understand why this video got so many negative reactions. In my opinion this was one of the best "fashion through decades" videos out there. Good job fighting the stereotypes!
I think it's because another website who makes those 'beauty through the ages' or '100 years of beauty' didn't like Karolina doing it better than them, and they attacked her in one of their videos, sending their viewers over here to click on the dislike button.
@@coloraturaElise Or it could be because it didn't show any "fashion" just her face and some hairdos/hats.
Kay Zee
Perhaps it is because this video is not meant to focus on the fashion (also hats and hairdos are a part of fashion) but on the people (specifically women) who lived in these decades and to highlight why it is often a negative thing for “100 years of fashion” videos to only show things rich people or famous people wore, which for many people romanticises that era when in fact it was not as pleasant as displayed.
No
Billie Eyelash
No what?
This video made me realize there is no perfect era and there was never a perfect era and nor will there be one anytime soon. That’s why we have to be grateful for small things that make us smile from time to time in life because they are going to be the memories we will look back on when and if things get tough and say “i was born in the right time”
I love watching Downton Abbey, but know for a fact I would have to be a downstairs staff member had I lived then. Pretty sure that escaping the servant life was why my ancestors immigrated to Canada, then to the U.S.
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Really? There might never been a perfect era, but all the eras in humanity were better compared to this one...this century is tge end line of humanity, 2050 might be the end of the world. I am thinking seriously to end my life since I live in such dark times...
@@alex9920ro why you have a lot to live for.. mankind evolved tremendously in 50 yrs... in your timeline of now there will better things to come , don't let things happening around define your thinking ..strong will people r going to change the path for the world and all people.. stay positive and do not fear ahead ..you r value as anyone on this planet..stay strong and don't ever give up on yourself.
@@alex9920ro That's not true at all. You should be grateful to live in arguably the most peaceful time; where almost everyone has freedom of expression and access to information with basic medical care. Imagine living in a time where you could die from a common disease and rights were non-existent; not saying that some people don't still but for the most part, things have gotten much better.
I saw for the first time the beauty of my grandmother represented in this video, a domestic servant after the spanish civil war. She was beautiful without the make up, the fancy dresses and the glamour. She worked very hard to sustent her family.
Ok
@@whosserene the heck
Exactly. Women were actually more beautiful back then because they were natural, not all faked out!
How nice of you tearing women down like that, damn🙃
@@rashidadavis8389 It’s a shame 4 people liked your dumb comment
This is so beautiful. It's devastating, but beautiful to see the accuracy and pain in each woman. The early 1900s was not all glamour and jazz, it was often suffering and pain. It's incredible to see it delivered in such a raw way.
Oh shit. This hit harder than I expected. My grandmother lived through the Great Depression. She watched her mother die in their own home during childbirth, and the child she bore shortly thereafter. The guy that got her pregnant abandoned them all before she gave birth. None of them were old enough to know what to do to save their mothers life. In the 40s she married a transient alcoholic welder who gave her ten kids and refused to hold down a job anywhere long enough to raise them. Many points in their life they starved, lived in abandoned homes, moved every three months for years. People often forget that for most of America the "american dream" is a dirty lie told by people who are after what little money we have. Most of us don't live nearly as well as what is shown on TV.
Thank you for sharing your story and family background. It's true, we all have to come up with and adapt to the times and come up with our own meaning for what our best possible life will look like. And in the past the american dream was a promise that offered nothing, did nothing but was an empty platitude that obscured how much an american family can endure suffering or hardships.
@@neonflights5951 The American dream is very real. You don't know howlucky you have it
@@ivlivsvalerivsmaiorianvs3884 No, no its not. Its a phrase. Its a metaphor. Its not palpable. Its a DREAM, thats why its called "The American Dream". You're missing on the big picture. Just because people claim to have a dream, doesn't mean we don't live in a society that takes advantage of its workers and tries to normalize bullshit that frankly shouldn't be happening, or needs to be desperately called out on.
You go tell a family drowning in tens of thousands in medical debt about the American dream and see what good that does them. We have so much to fix and it should be an embarassment that we can be so modern and still have poverty. If the US was as good as it claims to be, you wouldn't have people suffering the way people are. We may be forward facing in capitalistic means but the amount of second thought and compassion we give to our nieghbors who are silently trying to maintain face as they suffer tragic losses is a fuckin joke.
@@neonflights5951 I never said the US was perfect and I agree there are a lot of issues to fix but I see leftists everyday saying we need communism and that's just stupid
@@ivlivsvalerivsmaiorianvs3884 Who is discussing or brought up communism? We are discussing poverty and the fact that people suffering from it get ignored or treated like they dont exist, despite making a sizeable amount of everyday Americans.
the representation of the nurse girl really looks like she just had to see a bunch of people die, it really is accurate
_it reminds me of Florence Nightingale one_
Ikr, she looks like she's seen some shit.
Not really lol
@@bradmccallum24 yes really lol, what do you think nurses have to deal with in the army? Baby delivery?!
@@bradmccallum24 well after wars , during wars or people just working in the military, people were often so severoy injured they'd die and it was common. Nurses did see people die, most day
when she’s says real women, she means the working class. the ones that lived through the hard things. all of the other videos in this genre only show you the minority of women, the tv stars and such. she’s highlighting the reality of the time, and paying homage to the women that worked so hard.
Weren't the majority of women back then housewives or something? Sorry to come across as sexist but I'm pretty sure until the 1960s most women had a husband and kids and stayed home. Also she forgot the flapper and women getting the right to vote in 1920s or 1910s if she's in Brittain (though I know that some countries had a ways to go before giving women the right to vote). But all in all it was good.
@@kelsyebillman8694 if you read marxist literature, working class housewives ARE working class. Domestic Labour is still Labour.
by "real women" she means how women actually looked in those times, not the peak of fashion and beauty.
@@BrookelynJane64 Okay thanks. 😃
@@kelsyebillman8694 actually most women couldn't afford staying at home. Middle classes were still a minority. Working class women had to work, if nothing else, they washed laundry at home. Also children had to get work really young around seven or even younger. The idealised picture of victorian domesticity was just that, an idealistic goal, nothing more. For a woman to stay home and only take care of the house was a luxury and even then she didn't do it without servants. Women taking care of household all by themselves came around first in the fifties, when most people couldn't afford servants anymore and more and more people could find other work, which paid more and had fixed hours.
Kelsye Billman If the family had enough money then the wife could stay home, but lots of families relied on both parents working. It’s why this myth of women in the workplace being the cause of the “ruin of the American family” is so ridiculous. Poorer women have been working since the Dark Ages.
I cry everytime I watch this. It's such a beautiful story you're telling through images of real women.
Exactly...me too
Compared to what? Onlyfans and Tiktok doctored videos of photoshopped instagram models?
This caused me to tear up. I really appreciate how you try to show the reality instead of sugar coating women through the history. It really hasn't been kind for our sisters of the past.
Cringe
@@kthevsamig4958 Stop
@@kthevsamig4958 you know what else is cringe? Misogyny
@@kthevsamig4958 You know what's cringe? Discrimination.
@@CrayonConoisseur Imagine assuming something of a person from a single word they typed in a random comment.
I loved this. I was shocked when I read my grandma's memoirs that during the depression they ate "ketchup soup". It was heartbreaking.
my grandma ate "rice mixed with chalk" which the Japanese gave to the locals when they colonised my country. Made me feel thankful that I live in the modern era uwu
My grandmother grew up dodging Russian bombs in Finland. Food was rationed. They did okay because her mother picked mushrooms and berries. We should all remember and understand these stories we were told.
If you've never had tomato soup, ketchup soup won't be that bad if you try it
ketchup soup isnt that bad tho
@Alejandro Montoya Man im eating tomato soup even now 🙄
The nurse one really hit home for me. I work at a nursing home and two of our elderly residents (90+ years old) figured out that they were nurses together in the same unit during WWII and one of them even put on her old uniform to reminisce. It was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed
Being a RN for nearly 30 years, the one about the nurse struck me as well. I can't even imagine what those brave women experienced. This was a phenomenal video. It touched my heart. Thank you sister ♡
I am a RN too. I worked in homecare. I cared for a woman who lived in London between 1933-1948 , the stories she told. She was a teacher of young children who lived on the streets and docks ....Amazing
If I came to a hospital and saw a nurse use her old uniform I'd honestly hope I got hurt more often just to see that again
My grandmother's sister was a military medical instructor-she was engaged in the evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield and providing them with first aid, as well as accompanying the wounded to the field hospital. Compared to this occupation, hell is a cozy and quiet place, like a sanatorium-resort. Imagine how a fragile girl myself pulling healthy man, whose explosion tore off the hand and which is unconscious. And on it recklessly shoots a couple of German men, these Europeans, from a machine gun...
Europeans are now wondering why Russians remember that war and how it will not be forgotten. Everything is simple. It took fourteen people in my family to fight that war. He returned from the war five. three soon died from wounds and acquired diseases, having lived eight-ten years. Only two survived to a relatively advanced age...
@@elisasophiagrace6547 Not gonna lie, I almost teared up at that part. Tbh, the entire video made me a bit teary eyed.
The image of the nurse hit me hard. She looks like she's had to seen someone she cares about die. And I've had to see that from a young age. In a way I can relate but in other ways I want to understand even more.
@spirals 73 Yeah, same
When she says real women, it's not just that she means the working class, but that it was the average woman. You're looking at 80-90% of the population. Some were glamorous of course, but that leaves some even worse than this. Life is historically hard for women. Stay strong girls!
That is the working class. 90% of women are in the working class.
@@ProudestMonkey100 The working class can refer to middle class, which is NOT 90% of the population. That leaves out women in poverty who may have worked under the table jobs or worse. But even if you consider that as working class, you do leave out women who technically didn't have to work for wages, but definitely ran their homes. My statement was simply to further drive home the idea that women have always been working against the handicap society puts on them and that it wasn't just servants or those that required employment...it was all but the top of the top.
Life is, was, and will be, hard for almost every single person that will ever live.
Just a small correction - life is historically hard for everyone. You could easily find a male counterpart for each of the women Karolina portrayed here.
@@gratius1394
ok but this isn’t about men, it’s a different kind of difficult since they weren’t the ones oppressed.
i have a theory that karolina is actually an immortal and did, in fact, live through these decades, and that's why she's so phenomenal at pulling off the looks (and why she is so knowledgeable about actual, genuine fashions of the times)
That’s funny
@@slamzam don't laugh at the truth
so far i count 3 immortals in show business. keanu reeves, john maclean and karolina. they don't hide, do they? no fear of getting exposed. hahaha
Ahxel also John mulaney
@@ahxel8173 Pharell Williams
Your 1900's women female factory worker... so good. It felt like a moving photo of the Lowell, MA, Mills Girls. Shocked. It's the exact depiction of what they looked like. Amazing work.
And Manchester, NH (named for her English older sister) and many other mills in the area. We have a statue of a mill worker going down the steps around 1900/1910 to or from her work.
Thank you for this. We are British and our grandmothers were nothing short of incredible. During WWII they worked in factory's, put of fires, cared for strangers that needed help, took in other people's children, were nurses caring for the wounded, all while sleeping in underground train stations. British women kept the country together during the battle of Britian; and they deserved to be remembered for how amazing they truly were.
But this girl is Polish?
@@KirstydePaorShe is. That’s not relevant to this comment, though.
During World War 2, my great grandmother was an escapee from a Japanese Comfort Women Camp, after which she ended up joining the manchurian resistance fighters that were operating in the Northern regions of Korea. The image of the nurse made me wonder if those eyes were the same she had, looks like she had seen far too much for anyone to remain wholly sane.
What a brave woman
You have a really cool grandmother :)
Your grandmother was so brave and a hero
your great grandmother sounds like a very intriguing person. People should make a movie about her and not another Ted Bundy one.
Recently I read a book depicting japanese comfort women camps (i never knew they existed before then) and reading your comment nearly made me cry, i can't even imagine everything she's been through, she's so brave, hope she got to live a wonderful life after she escaped
"History is written by the victor" - ie. history is written by the rich. This video is an amazing piece of class consciousness. Hail to the real women of history, the ones whose names will never be remembered.
Yeah we all have lack of class consciousness.
Victor is a male name.
@@wokeaf1337 it's also a noun meaning victory over something or someone
@Zoomerwaffen xx so what
@@wokeaf1337 Ok??
1:29 You can see a bit of fear on her face. Imagine, how much those nurses had to see. All the bloodshed, the men in pain, men that died because there was nothing to do to save them... Poor nurses and soldiers. I can't imagine how much they went through in those times!
On a happier note, I do like all of those outfits. Vintage style without vintage morals for me!
Don’t forget the nurses & doctors 🥼 now a-days, what they are doing & going thu.
@@dianewood2430 Of course!
@@sourlovee33_ 🙂
@Niek Vels Absolutely
Yooo fellow Musikenna fan! :D
Heavy stuff. The facial expressions, the music, the noises in the background,.... everything is spot on.
That background piano music paired with the different sounds of each era is so haunting. The music from the 1940s glamour era followed by those war sirens from the same decade gave me chills.
Jamie Barrington Thomas I know!!!
There are these sirens that go off in my neighborhood to alert the fire department. They often scare me when they go off late at night because of the almost identical sound it has to a bombing siren from WWII.
IKR?
I did feel a hauting chill down my spine and some tears. Happens to me whenever I hear a siren from the second world war.
Jamie Barrington same
When she looked at the camera with the nurse outfit, I felt that. I felt the eyes of a woman who had seen the terrors of war. Beautiful actress
The nurses don't see combats. And looking at the camera with big eyes is not what we call a good actress
I know right, it somehow worked really well... wow
@@maximederak Terrors of war. As in bloody injuries. Don't downplay others achievements
@@Mariana-zc1gx G pa lu
@Asha Killed by artillery fire because they were not on the battlefield but kilometers away
Only complaint about this video? It wasn't longer.❤ Hon, this video (though older and you continue to grow in knowledge and skill, as we all should) is one of the best "fashion through history" type videos. I teach a class about this every few years to high schoolers. I show the fashion images, of course, but then we look at and discuss the reality of the clothing for each era. It's one of my favorite classes to teach!
Well done, madam! Well done!
Same. I love the less flashy and more average/working class fashion and mundane history. People love to forget certain parts of history and lots of things are being erased and forgotten. It's crazy how people seem to not remember the GD already.
to anyone who showed up to this video seven years later and plans to cancel karolina for implying that female celebrities and wealthy women arent real women: she only wants you to see who women are beyond the glitz and glamor of each decade. even those celebrities and socialites had their own struggles and hardships, they weren't just pretty faces.
who are these people? i think we need to imagine a better argument for them or we'll have a very disappointing fight
@@storageheater what's wrong with my argument?
@@KaylaTheKindOne
specifically, the argument you are imagining that someone else has made, that Karolina should be cancelled for not speaking out for rich women, is facile and silly. If you want a juicy fight with your imaginary enemies consider accusing them of racism and fatphobia
an example:
"to anyone who showed up to this video seven years later and plans to cancel karolina for implying that only thin white women have real beauty:..."
then you give your pre-emptive counterargument and move on
@@storageheater hm...that's a fair point. thank you for your feedback
You're like.. Fighting air here mate
This is actually really accurate, in the 100 years of beauty videos everyone is wearing some hippie dress when the reality is pretty harsh
And we end up with oh i want that time bavk. Like no you dont it was awful.
@@randawilson6916 yeah. When some girl comments "I was born in the wrong era!" Like which era do you want, the one where you'd be burned at the stake for showing your shoulders and knees, the one where you'd be executed if your husband did something wrong even if you were innocent, or the one where the whole world was at war for a whole portion of a century (WW1+WW2+Cold War in 1900s)
@@thegoliath9310 when people say they wished to be in a different era, they mean they want to be ridiculously rich in a different era
Fr like idk what made people think being a hippie was glamorous but in most cases it wasn’t about clothing it was a mindset, and there protests weren’t aesthetic they were protesting for a right to live
@@thegoliath9310 true and that's because they have no idea how life was back then so they don't really know.. we didn't even had rights, education and even mental illness was not taken so serious l bet it was horrible.
She has a truly timeless face
K Vyas so true
so true!
I agree
K Vyas what a beautiful comment
Most of us has a timeless face. As people, we never change. You can wear an outfit from the 90's. You will you like a persson from the 90's. People have timeless faces, unless the put some weird plastic in them. But that is a truly timeless face.
It's wonderful to see women remembered for the lives they led rather than just the fashions that existed at the time.
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver Sure, ok
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver What the actual heck come back after you've got some education
Jon Talbot Um. Okay. I think Fae Fog may just be talking about the UA-cam trend of highlighting women’s fashion in the upper class and such, and this video had a nice spin to that where there was a little more focus on the actual, more realistic lives of women during these time periods.
jon, then why do you think she made this video?? Like..
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver
You have spit straight facts every time I see you comment.
This video is amazing. I have watched it countless times, and it always gives me shivers. It's beautiful, educational, empowering like nothing else I've ever seen really, and Karolina is an amazing actress, communicating everything with just a tiny movement of her mouth or the look in her eyes
me : Why did she choose sad music lol
me, a few seconds in : oh.
Oh no, are you sad about that 40% of factory workers were female? That's gender equality )
@@amyamy4833 lol, thank you for that
Vlad Ț it’s more the inhuman working conditions within factories that are the issue. And the only reason women weren’t over 50% is because they also had kids working in those factories. Many people died.
Thank your local union today!
@@katherinemorelle7115 Unions are socialist trash.
@ not ALL unions are socialist trash. #NotAll
Her face has a very vintage look she reminds me of Evangeline from nanny McPhee. She's really beautiful
Sam Winchester FR🤓🤓
Sam Winchester I know!
very true
Well you would know Sammy. You nerd. lol
Sam Winchester now everyone watch that beautiful film XD
You are stunning.. and put lots of effort into your vids, loved it!
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Jesus loves you 💙
@@deborahanth3672 I'm gonna say this in the most respectful way, but get out you just ruined it
I love this! What you say, "please don't forget the real women," was so touching that I jumped up, pumping my fist, saying, "YES." I think you have great content 👏👏👏👏
I like the point made with this video. Whenever I see a pop culture "through history" and they get to the 30's and show a smiley and snazzy styled person I always think "wait a sec, weren't millions of people unemployed and people were on the streets starving?" I know the pop culture videos aren't trying to be completely accurate, but it's nice to see something like this.
And not only in the 30's. Most of them(including Buzzfeed) shows only the 'noble' people of certain centuries, like in the 18'th century or the egyptian era, like if the other people didn't matter and didn't have their own style.. Depicting an entire era just using one icon or one country, is not fair and extremely unrealistic. Spred ignorance is always a stupid thing to do, no matter how 'accurate' you want your video or not.
0ElectricBlue Even though the Great Depression hit America in the 1930s but many countries never recovered between ww1 and ww2, such as Germany which is why they were so eager to trust Hitler and every word he said. And yeah nearly every episode of something like "100 years of beauty" depicts people smiling and laughing for the 1920s-30s when really only America had a good decade for the 1920s before the market crashed in 1929 and people were miserable in 1930s
0ElectricBlue it is really sad that people seem to over look the unemployment but the culture of those years was to over look anything bad and to turn to the beautiful actresses, actors, and radio shows not the poverty
Ooof, this hit hard... Remember the past. All of it. Not just the pretty bits.
What
@@Opal5674 Not always, just most of the time. You're right, yes, but what would we teach about the peaceful parts of history? What can we learn from that? Without going into more depth than we would otherwise, not much, so it makes sense to focus at first on the larger events, the ones that shaped history the most.
Outside of history classes, people don't like to remember the bad things :/ which is fair enough, but the hard-working people in said difficult times deserve to be remembered.
@@spookyspirits4462 Well, you can learn how people lived back then which is mostly erased from the history books. I find it much more interesting. It gives you a different perspective. During school you learn details about wars and you are told to be amazed by the bravery of the king invading a new land. But that meant always the same, boring thing - death of the loved ones, poverty and famine. 90% of population is erased from the history, you see things from the perspective of the royalty. And that's not a perspective many people can relate to.
@@zagubionemysli I completely agree :) I've always found how the majority of the population lived much more interesting than the royalty, and I think it's important to remember.
@@spookyspirits4462 especially for kids today, who have no respect at all for the past, and I mean no respect.
Could you make one from the 50's to the 90's? This one was so good!!!
The Jenna Pearl Things weren't all that difficult from the 50's on. Even though there was segregation, black people could still dress fairly average. And even after that, casual styles were becoming the norm and lifestyles were a lot easier for almost everyone.
Oh, totally. But I'd like to see what lower-class women actually wore in the fifties... or the chicks in the eighties with normal makeup.. that sort of thing. :)
The Jenna Pearl What I mean is, the gap between the rich and the poor styles is closing more and more each decade. Soon enough there won't even be much of a difference.
I know :)
The Jenna Pearl My great grandparents had a lot of slides from the 50s (and sometimes earlier!) so I was fortunate enough to get a tiny glimpse into the fashion of that era.
My family in that generation was pretty poor - mainly first-generation Italian immigrants. Although I saw some pictures of the women wearing dresses (much simpler than the 50s pinup stuff you see), nearly everyone wore pants and some sort of blouse tucked into their pants. I think it might be because they always had to work (housework, gardening, or otherwise) and dresses were impractical for that sort of thing. When they did wear dresses, they looked like they were homemade, but I can't be sure. I know they recycled EVERY piece of clothing (eventually making quilt squares one the fabric was no good for anything else).
They also all had very short hair - shoulder length hair was the longest I saw any of them have, and it was usually much shorter than that.
It might have been different for wealthier families, or even other poor families, but this is what I have seen from the old family slides.
I was struck by your portrayal of all these women, showing both vulnerability and incredible strength at the same time.
I don’t think there’s a problem with romanticizing history a bit for cinematic purposes but I believe it’s important still have the truth known. Informative video 👍.
Romanticizing time periods can be harmful because it can lead people to have foolish misconceptions and a certain attitude about their own time and consequently adopt weird and shallow conservative ideologies as an attempt to get that romanticized time period (that only exist in their minds) back. But I guess that already happened.
toledo I definitely agree. Nostalgia is all well and good, but a lot of harm can come from it. Case in point, “Make America Great Again” as a slogan. It’s about trying to return to a historic ideal that didn’t ever really exist in the first place.
@@silverco2560 I want to say that it led to people misusing the word conservatism (which is about leaving it as it is, maintaining the status quo) with reactionary views. Reactionism is a movement to "bring things back as they were before", i.e. Make America Great Again is NOT a conservative viewpoint, but a reactionary one trying to return to "good ole' days".
toledo Bologna. It’s NOT harmful. What’s harmful is the idiocy of the people that live in this world today that take things literally. Unfortunately we live in a time where people believe the first thing they hear, and don’t do the research themselves. We’ve gotten lazy. There’s nothing wrong with romanticizing anything.
Maybe romanticizing was the wrong term for me to use, I just think it’s ok to remember, reminisce and play with the best parts of a time as a writer as long as the reality of the time is still known. Like i think ninjas wearing all black clothes, jumping on roof tops, and all of them having awesome swords is really cool and can make for really cool games,shows, and movies...but that’s not how it happened at all and that’s ok. Because I’m not an infant, I can differentiate fiction from history.
Also I’m not saying you can’t make awesome stories using reality but it’s the writers choice to try or not.
This beautiful work gave me chills. The dichotomy between the privileged and working class was so stark. Amazing video.
Was? It still is incredibly stark.
@@charliej8295 I'm not saying it isn't, just that it was interesting to see someone capture that from back then as opposed to only focusing on middle to upper-class fashion. History tends to ignore anyone else.
This video is beautiful. The music with the audio clips are stunning. This video actually made me shed a few tears.
Yes, it is a stunning video, unlike the cash grab Allure and Glamour fashion "history" videos.
It gave me goosebumps especially the suffragette. Real working women sometimes have their own versions of the current styles due to cost and availability issues.
Minor key in Western music can typically denote 'sadness'.
So did I. A video combining art AND intelligence. 💖💗💖
Musicsavedme no it didnt, go home, ur drunk
This video gets recommended every once in a while and I always watch it. It gives me both joy, because of such good and honest presentation, and a nihilist emptiness, when I realize how "meaningless" our suffering is to certain other and the "great scheme of things".
Exactly. They show us history with women being accessories. Women have always been a part of history on factories, at war, during revolutions, in labs and more!
My grandmother was on munitions in the two world wars. In the second, a lump of molten aluminium landed on her foot and burned a hole in the flesh. She went and had it bandaged and was back at work the next day.
Her daughter, my aunt drive and serviced vans through the war. She was never fleeced by a car mechanic afterwards.
Women worked at home in the vast majority of times, to enable the great things being done. Without them, we would be lost.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah In the vast majority of times, women worked outside too, unless you're talking about rich upperclass white women only.
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So the children just changed their own diapers?
@@idontevenhaveapla7224 interesting ur name-my oldest daughter has synthesia also
She sees auras too, always has for both
Thank you, suffragettes, for all your hard work, so that we could have the right to vote!! 100th anniversary
Yesss
Yes, thank you suffragettes.
yes!!
Yes, thank you, and thank you *Suffragists* for all of *your* hard work too.
These were the forgotten women who just wanted to be listened to instead of heard, who made real progress in tearooms while set-back by Suffragette stunts. I can't blame the Suffragettes for doing what they did, and I know that the Suffragists were working from their own position of privilege, but few seem to remember that the Suffragettes' noble, powerful strategies *didn't work.* That's not what got women the vote... some believe that their actions even delayed the cause.
Of course, in the end, it was all a bit moot. Perhaps the Suffragettes kept the idea in the headlines and perhaps the Suffragists kept the men in charge aware of the issue, but it was really the work of women in war, 'ettes and 'ists alike, that got women the vote. After that it was the long slow process of British bureaucracy, pushed by those same women who worked hard through the wars. I don't know how it worked elsewhere.
Thank you, suffragists and suffragettes!
This one was soooo much better than those other videos. They usually just show what popular movie stars or musicians wore. It’s a nice change to get a glimpse of what an every day women might’ve looked like👌🏼❤️
Yeah, even if the point of those Cut videos is to show how manufactured beauty is, it’s not gonna be that obvious. Karolina did a better job at making it obvious.
i just don't understand how would anybody believe those video are *real.women*?! Don't they have grandma and grandma's photo?? Obviously that's just Vogue style or.Hollywood style
I've been wondering about something for years.
"Would I be a bad person towards others if I wasn't taught or if I didn't learn the hard way that we by default all deserve respect, compassion and gratitude? If I wan't 'sensible' would I be a xenophobe and someone who views some people as inferior?"
The fact that I was reminded that women had to fight for their rights in this video just reminded me of those questions.
Your mentors would be the bad persons
As someone studying social psychology, I think about this often. It can fill me with some uncertainty, but I try to turn that into instead feeling motivated to learn more and improve how I interact with others.
the answer statistically speaking is most likely yes.
ignorance leads people to behave in bad ways toward others
such emotional eyes. when she's doing her normal content it's easy to forget that she's actually an beautiful emotional director and actress
ikr? She seems like a different person in each role, she's really able to portray them
@@anonymoususer3888 yeah
True!
I had an older lady who was shot when she was an army nurse during WW2. She still felt the pain in the area she was shot.
Phantom pain
@@washington535 or, perhaps, being shot left an injury that was not properly addressed, leaving traces of damage
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 could also be
People died in that war. People lost their only friends and family. A single person with some pain deserves attention why? What about the men riddled with holes who never felt anything again (because they died)?
@@MoeHasubandoAbsolver How stupid are you? No seriously, get your IQ checked. It may be negative. He's talking about one ww2 vet he spoke with. The reason we didn't mention other people is because we talking about one women. Thats like complaining about someone who had cancer beacause they aren't talking about other people who had cancer. Your comment is genuinely the most *stupid* thing I've seen all week.
I feel like in 100 years time people will look at Instagram models and Kim Kardashian and be like “so this is how they dressed!” When let’s be real the majority of us do not put that much effort into our appearance.
The same goes for the women seen in the media in history.
Yep, no woman I know in real life look like these overly made up social media influencers or celebrities. They only represent a very small percentage of actual women.
Well said Billie
True
Billie Støndenhodetska in the 1940s women put loads of effort in they’re appearance to appeal to themselves and men. Now everyone just wears leggings and a tshirt
@@khloevictoriax Not me. I wear sweatpants and a tshirt. When I'm ready to get fancy, I add underpants.
I shed a few tears everytime I watch this. Not only cause my body image issues, it shows we have struggled, and we are here cause we survived
I just read Cut's rant about your video and "who deserves realness", and God that was a wild thing from start to finish. From the strawman arguments to how they somehow made you responsible for the early suffragettes' racism, you could tell they were salty AF. Keep doing your amazing work, you magnificient Time Lord, and never mind the boring twats who would rather attack you than be at ease with their own work.
Where can I see this “rant”?? I can’t believe they did that 🙄😒But what do you expect from Cut
@@cashkromsupernerd1193 Looks like the Cut did not get the point of this video. Sure those fashion icons were real women, but they were also less than 1% of women combined. Therefore, Karolinas video is a lot more accurate. they are just salty bc she did it better without a huge team and a lot of money.
Most of their videos anyways are out of touch in reality
@@thedreamer4761 Besides, even fashion icons are not represented accurately in the propaganda posters and advertisements and movies. They still have to represent an ideal of women.
It's nice to see that most of the comments on the article were people calling it out as being salty!
Her eyes are so big, and full of emotion, beautiful
Yehhh
wow, your face is so expressive! You’re very beautiful
Tommo Drauhl:So true! She reminds me of an actress...!
Remembering coming across this video years ago and glad to see it is still here. The idea behind this is a great one at showing reality vs glamorization. I noticed some saying that the movies in the 1930s were extra glamorized to provide escapism to those who wanted to forget the depression for a few hours, and that is very true and why we see films from that time that give the glitz and glitter but also give an uplift such as 42nd Street or ones that delve into the harsh economic times while giving hope such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (bear in mind I am focusing on mainstream American films). In reality, the struggles and hardships were real as showed in this video. Fighting for equal rights, struggling to find work, trying to survive, and then there were the horrors of wars. My great grandfather was the only one with a steady and stable job during the depression, and as such took in a lot of relatives to help them stay afloat even as he struggled. My great grandmother got so use to drinking evaporated milk because it was cheap that she drank it for the rest of her life.
To all women out there, thank you for your hard work and struggles. We continue the fight and are grateful to your efforts.
My foremothers were peasants, washwomen, farmwives, factory workers and weavers. No education, working full-time *and* caring for a family. Neat to see some of this.
Yeah, as someone whose grandparents immigrated from rural India after the Second World War, I can't put into words how much in awe I am for all the women (and even the ones still there).
at least they did not not get to bleed out on battlefields after only 20-ish years of life.
@@CaptainObvious0000 yeah yeah men had it hard too. but this isn’t a discussion about men it’s a discussion about women
@@iswearimnotafurry4953 those fields were pretty gross though
My foremothers were slaves and sharecroppers.
Wow, this truly opens my eyes to the concept of beauty.
REALLY? How?
no it doesnt shut up and eat your cereal, you’re late for school
At first I was like vader but the, I saw your com and now I'm dead, thanks
lmao no it doesn't. Pack it in you virtue signaling asshole.
L F it always changes
When people thing of PTSD they ususally associate it with military veterans being scared from combat. I can't imagine though the PTSD that those WW2 nurses must have. Day after day hour after hour constantly seeing the gruesomest of injuries caused by the war. A wounded soldier only has to face his own mortality. I nurse had to face everyones.
yeah let's not assume a nurse's ptsd is worse than a veteran who watched his mates die next to him and the whole war happen with all the gruesome things. nurses only see the aftermath.
*and dont get me started on ptsd caused by domestic violence.* so many people fail to realize that domestic violence can result in ptsd, it kind of upsets me.
A really good book that talks about this is called my story: war nurse. It's set in ww2 and the main character is a vad nurse and one of the climaxes of the story is how the nurses worked during dunkirk and the horrors they went through, when they weren't able to even mourn for a second
@@Ada-kr4io it's still not even close to what's it's like to watch the war unfold before your eyes.
@@raclettepp I know I was just recommending a book that showed the importance that nurses played
The nurse part made me shed a tear. It made me think about all of the people who were left mentally scarred
My great grandmother lived through so much and I'm grateful I got to meet her and she told her stories. She was born in 1923 and died 2013, she had a long and great life and seeing this video is so wild, to know what women looked like and went through in those times. Brave ❤
b h similar to my grandmother. She said her family didn't know the great depression happened until it was over. She said they always lived poor country and living off what they could produce. Her dad was a logger and everyone was subsistence farmer. For a lady who said she didn't notice the depression she saved like she did. Still to this day I feel light guilt when I throw away plastic Ziploc baggies followed by a smile thinking about her. I make sure to follow most of her other anti waste ways though.
Same I had a great grandma who was born 1912 and died at 97 years old in 2009 her stories were beyond beautiful yet painful.
kaylynn makes me miss my grandma!😭 mine was born 1918 and passed away in 2010. I was very lucky to know her for 22 years and heard lots of stories. She was one of toughest people I’ve ever known.❤️
My great grandmother just passed this past summer (2018) right before her 99th birthday. She was born in 1919 and lived through all of this. She was blessed to not be too touched by the great depression because her parents were very frugal and had good jobs. She was also an amazing artist and used to draw the fashion of the times. I have a portrait she drew of a class mate in 1935 and it is gorgeous
My great grandmother lived through the 2nd world war in factories. She was born in 1924 and died in 2016. I wish I’d got to hear about what she went through.
Really great...when people say "oh i was born in the wrong era!" they really don't know what they are talking about. The past was really hard for those normal people who didn't have loads of money... People are only thinking of fashion...people lived lives...many difficult lives.
it was hard even for the high class women.
Yes. I hate when people say that. Like. You live in the best, most prosperous era in history, shut up. As you are saying you were born in the wrong era, you are holding a tiny device in your hand with access to any piece of information in the world!
@@morganfreeman9106 indeed.
my grandmother was a very uplifting and cheerful woman despite having seen two world wars, a famine and an epidemic that left her and her little sister the sole survivor of their family. and i havent heard her complain.
but, when she saw the ages old first type washing machine, you couldnt imagine her wistful cry, oh i was born at the wrong time!
nevermind what she had gone trough, troughout her life she had washed everything by hand, and with just tree or four bars of soap for a year. the lest was washed by ash water.
i cant imagine any female with sufficiently old "female" relatives wishing to go back to "good old days".
neither a male should wish for those days too, where most of humanity even in western world, was 3rd class, and males were doomed to die at the factory, never a stop to workhours.
@@morganfreeman9106 depends on how you see it. many people would give up technology just to be in the past
@@WikipediaDurchleser no they won't.
"one out of nine women working in domestic service refers to Russia."
I really appreciate that you mentioned Russian women, it's always nice to see someone from the west who doesn't strike our people out of a conversation about the history because of some political situation or something else.
Also, I wanted to speak about another working class which was prevalent in Russia (USSR), which was originated a little earlier than 1920 and which was existed till 1992, but of course, the first part of the century was the hardest for the people. Maybe you already know about it, but still, I feel the need to talk because my grandmother(and grandfather but because of the context I want to speak about her) was one of them.
So I am speaking about kolkhoz - collective farms, where people were doing agricultural work to give the most of the products of their work to the government and the country. During the war and after it the situation in the country was bad and in kolkhozes was hardly bearable. Villages had to function without adult men, so all the provision was made mostly by children and women. Guess this is the typical war scenario, but this didn't make things easier.
My grandmother was a child during these times, so she had to work hard from a very young age like she was younger than 10 when she started to work in a field with adults. They had some schools, but a little percentage of the kids managed to end even 9 grades. Also, my grandmother's road to school was 5 kilometers long which is not that big but she was a child and she walked there alone even during the winter, and I think everybody can imagine how Russian winter looks like. And this was a road through (or near the forest) so she saw wolfes really close to her once during this walk.
She left her home and moved to Kirov (a small city) to get a teacher's education because she was tired of the pain in her back and feared for her health. After it, she returned to her village, but as a math teacher, so her work was easier. And finally, at the age of 28, she left kolkhoz forever and moved to Saint Petersburg to my grandfather who was learning engineering in a military college in this city(they were from the same village but he left first so they had some long-distance relationships for a few years which was sweet:3)
So they lived there, then my grandfather was sent to Baikonur (the city in Kazakhstan which has the biggest and most progressive cosmodrome nearby), so she went to this city with him. But during this time all this cosmos thing was hardly started and they live in a small house without any facilities. And also this place looked like a desert and had some desert insects, so once she was nearly bitten by a Solifugae( I didn't find it in English so it's a Latin name). And she avoided it only because of her quick reaction. It crawled in her dress, and she felt it and took it off, and threw it to the floor.
My grandpa was sent there because he was meant to engineer a plumping system for the cosmodrome. And she found a job in a counting department(they basically did the math to find a perfect trajectory for rackets, perfect weight and etc.). So she saw the Gagarin flight with her own eyes even helped the cosmodrome to organize it.
After it, she also lived in Ukraine, then moved to Russia again (to Voronej), and finally, her grown-up children helped her to move to Moscow.
So that's where my family lives now.
And after all this traveling she used to tell me that "you're are only needed where you were born". It rhymes in Russian(gde rodielsia - tam ie prigodielsia). That's so funny - she was the biggest traveler I knew herself XD
She passed away a few years ago, and she had terrible back problems most of her life.
And my grandpa is still with us. Right now were are out of Moscow with him and other family members in our country house.
Well looks like it is mostly about my grandma, not about the kolkhozes.
But I don't even think that someone will read it so I will let it be.
But your video inspired me so I felt like I need to write it.
Sorry for my language I'm not fluent.
Thank you for sharing this story. Your English is great and your storytelling skills are on par. 💚💚
Thank you for telling your story. I’ve heard some stories like this in my family too - I’m from Belarus and my parents are Russian. Your story really touched my heart, I can’t even explain why. Thanks for sharing. It was a great part of our history, I fell sad that all of this is going to pass without noticing. Thank you
Thank you for sharing💙
Thank you for sharing :) these were amazing women !
Thank you for sharing! You're grandmother was a very strong person and her story is worth telling!
Appreciate the intention behind the project's conception. The execution is commendable, too.
The humanity in this is incredible. I love that it looked like she got a random person from each era like you could see their stories in their eyes. The sound effects and other elements was a nice touch. Plus the depression era and nurse were especially heart wrenching.
Men's eyes tell a deeper story.
@@jan_phdthey would if they’d been through oppression and not having any rights. Oh wait
@@HSdirectioner5 So you're convinced you'll get laid, if you degrade women with your 'oppression' talk? That you telling us we are weak and fragile, and need YOU to tell us we are weak and fragile? Your Marxist Feminist teachers, are women's enemies.
@@jan_phd a lot of assumptions. I didn’t mention anything about “getting laid”, nor women being “weak and fragile”. I simply stated that women’s eyes hold a deeper story because they were the ones oppressed, not males. You brought up males in order to prove that males suffered more hardships. Next time get your emotions in check before blabbering out a response
@@HSdirectioner5 You're a misogynist, stop hitting me! You're totally wrong about men not being oppressed, but you have escaped that knowledge by deciding to be gay. I didn't mean getting laid by women. And no, we are not weak and fragile, and don't need you to defend us!
The 1910 one hit me hard. As a woman, I am so thankful to all of them who fought for us to have the very significant right to vote. This video touched my heart so deeply and made me grateful for every woman back then, from any decade. Great work!
And a century later, the consequences started showing...
if you do, it means ure one of them rotfl
@ Adrian J Did your mother or girlfriend hurt you or so you just act like this because it’s edgy?
@ turn off Edge lord alert 🙄
Remember, in America, they only gave White women the right to vote! Women of color weren’t given the right to vote until the 60s, but again, that’s just in America.
You could even extend to 1950 and mention the fact that society was aiming to re-implement Victorian era values and how wife being was encouraged.
*beating
And the civil rights movement.
+Luthien Megido A second video from 1950 to 2000 is in preparation :)
+Luthien Megido The 1990´s gothic chick
+Luthien Megido How was wife beating encouraged in the 50's?
I rewatch this video once in 2 years and I cry every time
Wow, this video is totally striking. I fully agree with you, we should say "Idealistic women through the years" because that's stupid to pretend every woman was a Monroed pin-up in the 50's, or a Louise Brooks-look-like flapper in the 20's. Congratulations and thanks for making this video. That was necessary.
I don't know why I cried at the nurse part it was senseless lol
I openly wept. Life is so hard, no matter who you are. It is a beautiful, horrible, gutt wrenching ride that I continually have to contemplate.
Senseless? Why? Emotions are meant to be stirred and touched so that we can sympathize, empathize, with others. If we can see the past and recognize it's good and bad then we can make change. If we look and never have a reaction, begin to worry.
I just want to add to this that I also get teary there and I think part of it is Karolina's ability to project the reality of those nurses in such powerful ways. The first time I watched the video (and every time I've watched it since) the thing I notice is the weight she conveys... the death, the blood and gore.. the cruel reality of war. That's why it makes me teary at least. I don't think it's senseless.. it's being sensitive to the harsh reality so many had to face not just in that era, but in every era represented in the video.
I was touched by the poor version becouse of the sound of a crying baby in background.
I'm watching it at my comfortable bad with my baby sleeping next to me, but when I was a child I lived in poverty, and I'll never, never, never forget the love of my mom despite everything - it was in Romania during Ceausescu.
She let me and my siblings go to adoption to protect us. Now I know she's dead, and the saddest thing is she'll never knew we are fine...
@@LuckeyWlas Awww this is sad. Sorry for ya😔
This was one of the best things I've seen on UA-cam in a while.
Mia Maselli agree!
This gave me goosebumps, wonderfully put together. I can only imagine their struggles, as well as yours changing makeup and hairstyles so many times to show us this
Looking back, I just realized how hard my grandparents' lives were doing the war. If they hadn't survived together, I wouldn't have been born...
My Grandma was born in the middle of war. Her familly was having hard time to find food or take care of others when Men were forced to join the war and there was almost no jobs
My dad was born in the end of the war of independence in our country. just a cool fact
As a studying history teacher, I couldn’t love this video more. You provided s beautiful portrayal of the everyday style and influence, along with an educated background explanation. Thank you 💕
Your face has that sort of classic timeless charm that you don't find these days.
Exactly what I thought!
her teeth are amazing 😃
Luna Amarantha Well there are 3,5 billion women on this planet. I doubt that there aren't any 'classic timeless' faces.
Luna Amarantha Yes we can find that kind of faces in the real world. But media keep coming those model girls who look almost the same, same styles, same make up, same surgeries. You know
It also depends on where you live tho. And you know, these days, so many ladies follow makeup and plastic surgery trends that somehow make it harder to spot or appreciate their 'timeless' charms (if they do have them).
YOU ARE SO PRETTY I AM LITERALLY CRYING ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
if anne hathaway and mary louise parker had a lovechild.
Haha, I thought the whole time "She's a mix between Mary Louise Parker and ... whom?" You cleared it up.
folkosire :)
***** just an expression..whatever.
Silvia Foxworth EXACTLY OMG 😂😍😍😍
Silvia Foxworth I couldn't agree more
When people say they’re born in the wrong generation bc they romanticize the past. I always remind them about minority discrimination against black men and women. How poor conditions where, and what women went through. It’s terrible and I’m proud to be born in this era.
(Of course there is still discrimination against minority’s)
J M I love 1940s fashion, music, manners, etc but I am very well aware of what they had to go through. Each generation will have their fair share of good and bad things and its up to you on how you wanna view that generation as a whole. I just try not to see 1940s as war and discrimination because there was much more than that :/
And who says that just because you were born in the 80s 90s or 2000s you can't dress like you were born in earlier eras? :) I feel like that's what most of those people mean, that they like the fashions of bygone eras. You don't have to live then to enjoy the fashion and style of the time. See "Why Are You Dressed Like That?" by Bernadette Banner: ua-cam.com/video/7BdnsB4RTcU/v-deo.html
BrightlyImagined I’m okay with people being dressed the way they they want to I honestly don’t care :) bc it’s fashion... :)
EJ The Savage yes sure in the 40s there was more other things other than war and discrimination, yet it’d be hard to ignore and surpass if you lived then. And trying to ignore the fact it happened is ignorant. It drops in with romanticizing.
Amen!
She should be an actress, like her expressions are no joke
This is literally so beautiful and emotional
People get offended by everything nowadays, goodness. This video spread a wonderful and important message. Thank you for that.
We all know women went through a lot of shit back in the days, but why does that make these "beuty trough de years" videos somethibg bad? Just becouse we enjoy those it doesn't mean we dont aknowlege about their issues in the past
That meme musics should not be used over real videos?
Right? Everything doesn't always has to be a controversy. This is simply just to spread a good message. Everyone took it to a different level.
what exactly is that message? women were nurses in WW2? women looked like women? hey, don't forget there have been physically attractive women throughout history? women, historically speaking, have been oppressed? women contribute to society? there were women during the period known as the great depression?
i don't know if those outfits were exceptionally historically accurate or not, but they looked ok.
she can put up whatever video she wants of course.
an interest in history / tradition / culture is a healthy interest - but my god you people feel like she deserves the nobel peace prize for inventing sociology or something
i think this girl just likes to dress up vintage and is trying to tie something significant to playing dress up and everyone is falling over themselves in an attempt to elevate it to something meaningful
again what is exactly the enlightening new message from this video?
Not offended. Just kind of a buzz kill.
Thank you for doing this!! I totally noticed it too. 1920s women are always depicted as flappers when really the society viewed them as disrespectful and inappropriate, most women were still dressed like they did during the war, just better
Karolina, I know this is a comment years late, but I just watched this video.
Your portrayals made me think of scraps of info I've gleaned about real women over the years. For instance, my good friend's mother, Candy, was raised during the depression, and very likely she and her mother resembled your look all too much. They had been a well-to-do family before the stock market crashed so, Candy's mom didn't know how to get along on very little money to start with. Somewhere along the line the 'man of the family' left as so many did. Candy and her mama ended up in a tent city in the south. Having had much household help, they had no skills to sew, clean, cook and otherwise make the best of their lot. But they survived.
Another memory you evoked is about the state of the children of the working mothers you portray. Many of them were left with extremely inadequate care. I'll never forget the cold chills I got the first time I read in one of Grace Livingstone Hill's early books a description of the heroine's horror at seeing the crowds of tiny, unattended, barely dressed children that flocked in the streets and near the railroad tracks of a large city, playing, fighting, begging for food...
Thank you for helping us get a glimpse of real history.
Thank you for sharing 💕
Amen. Beautiful! The Great Depression and the WW II nurse were, I think, my favorites. The combination of vulnerability and strength were heart-wrenching.