Despite being influenced by the Great Depression and the Second World War, women in the 1940s kept their glamorous looks and fashionable style. Maybe they are just a few, but these submitted pics of Flickr's members prove that our grandmas were probably cooler than we thought.
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| Claire, my grandma, 1940s |
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| Eleanor Wood (my grandma) were visiting his parents, Cleveland, OH, 1949 |
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| From grandma's hand written on the back: "Last summer in Yosemite Nat. Park", circa 1940s |
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| Funny portrait of my grandma Lavon, July 1945 |
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| "Golf Practice". Grandma in pants, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma as a teenager, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma Betty Craig at the beach, early 1940s |
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| Grandma Gloria wore sunglasses, circa 1940s |
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| Grandmother holding her puppy to pose for photographing in the snow, circa 1940s |
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| My grandma Joan Kirkland taken at Plage Laval in 1941 |
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| Grandma Joanne Illingworth, circa 1943 |
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| Grandma Lois, 1949. The left is of my grandma's senior portrait, and the right was taken sometime after |
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| Grandma Lyn as a teenager, 1940 |
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| Grandma on her wedding day, South Dakota, circa 1940s. Dead in sixties |
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| Grandma Pat, 1946 |
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| Grandma poses with "Sharp Curves" sign, 1949 |
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| Grandma reading a book, Ontario, summer of 1944 |
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| My grandma on a motorbike, circa 1940s. She looks like Norma Jeane (young Marilyn Monroe) in this photo |
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| Grandma with a camera posing on the hood of 1941 Buick Coupe, 1947 |
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| My grandmother wears a giant hat, circa 1940s |
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| Grandma, April 22, 1948 |
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| Grandma,19 years old, sitting on car somewhere near Camp Lejeune, NC in the spring of 1942 |
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| Grandmother in a polka-dot dress posing on a building's rooftop, Oklahoma, circa 1940s |
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| Grandmother is so cool, January 1948 |
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| I wish I could pull off a sleek riding outfit like my grandma, circa 1940s |
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| 'Lady of the lake'. My grandma in the late 1940s |
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| My grandma at 14 years old, 1941 |
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| My grandma Gloria Mendoza, 1947 at the age of 20 |
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| My grandma in an evening gown with long, long gloves, the Bronx, New York, 1947 |
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| My grandma looked like she was taking a selfie, 1947 |
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| My grandma Maxine posing during WWII and sent this picture during the war while my grandpa was out at sea |
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| My grandma wearing pants, circa 1940s |
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| My grandmother Dee as a young woman not long after my mother was born, 1944 |
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| My grandmother is so sexy in this backless dress, London, 1949 |
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| My grandmother Lois Kathleen in Canton, New York, late 1940s |
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| My grandmother poses on a bench, New York, 1946 |
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| My grandmother Rose Tseronis Vardas (1920–2007) who died after a long illness on September 14. This photo is from the early 1940s |
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| My young grandma in the early 1940s |
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| That's my grandma in the 1940s. What a catch! |