Clare Briggs / Comics

The Feast

by Clare Briggs · January 22, 2021

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Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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North says:

January 22, 2021 at 9:36 am

That right there, on the left, is my Grandmother.Report
Jaybird says:

January 22, 2021 at 10:16 am

A tie at dinner.Report
Saul Degraw says:

January 22, 2021 at 4:43 pm

What’s odd to me about these drawings is that the women look like they are in their 50s or 60s. Most of them would have been in their 20s or 30s. The overwhelming majority. Yes, labor made people look older then but not by that much.Report
- North in reply to Saul Degraw says:
  
  January 22, 2021 at 4:52 pm
  
  I’ve always had this impression that people physically aged a lot faster back in that time.Report
  - LeeEsq in reply to North says:
    
    January 22, 2021 at 4:59 pm
    
    Women in their twenties and thirties didn’t look like matrons in their fifties and sixties even if they lived a tough life or had a few kids. It’s not like we don’t have pictures to refer to even for lower middle class and working class families. To the extent that people did look older, it was because the hair and clothing styles were to make people seem older. To the extent that physical stress played a roll, I think it was more like a steep decline once you hit your 50s rather than anything else.Report
    - North in reply to LeeEsq says:
      
      January 22, 2021 at 8:05 pm
      
      Perhaps it’s just Briggs’ style.Report
- fillyjonk in reply to Saul Degraw says:
  
  January 22, 2021 at 7:56 pm
  
  I think modern dentistry contributes to people looking younger now, too. I remember how “old” both my grandmothers looked in the 70s and 80s compared to how my mom looks now.Report