Why do period dramas FILMED in the 1960s get the hairstyles so wrong?

[BOFster]

I've always noticed this. They take so much care with things like the cars and the military uniforms, yet completely cock it up when it comes to the hair. Here are a few examples from films supposed to be set in WW2.

Was it a reluctance to have the actors look uncool? And do you think we get in right nowadays, or will people watching in the future be scoffing at the obviously-2010s hairstyles?

meandjulio - that Len video - I was thinking you meant mobile phones first, but as soon as I saw them all looking "cool" and mean on bikes and wearing mirror-shades, I thought "they'd all be tattooed to buggery in 2015".

No, not on that basis at all, they would have fancied each other, since they would be applying the standards of their time and not ours. It's apples and oranges.

morris it could just be that because you recognise your parents by their facial features that you can't see them as young.

I have a photo of my mum at school aged 10. She looks at least 20 to me. I just can't see her as a child because her face is that of my mum.

I wonder whether our parents have thhe same effect in reverse: no matter how old we get, they will always see us as children/younger than we are.

People didn't go to the gym in the 60s, not even most athletes. No-one was toned as we are used to now, which to me makes almost any period drama seem subtly wrong. There's a scene in (I think) Carry on Doctor where Barbara Windsor is slapped on the bum while lying face down on a trolley by the doc (I think Kenneth Williams), and she wobbles all over - a very pretty figure but totally untoned. And can you imagine such a scene in a film made today? The past is another country etc etc.

One thing that I think they do still get wrong though, is to assume at a 70s wedding everyone would have been wearing 70s clothing. Not everyone is so hip and up to date, though. In my parents' wedding photos, the young are in flares but the old aunties are still in 60s style clothing, hair and glasses as they would have been a bit behind the fashion of the time.

yes in period films of the 80s (my specialist period) every teenage is dressed up to match a popstar, not one of them is understated and just "normal"