Magnus Ferdinand Riedell family

08/04/2014

This is a great family photo - look at the size of those shoulders on the dresses! Magnus Ferdinand Riedell family taken in Shepparton, Victoria Australia 1890.

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Kelly Rane

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08/04/2014

Those neck lines would drive me insane. I cant stand stuff around my neck, cant wean necklaces or t-shirts for that matter. :)

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Tina Hyatt

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08/04/2014

I totally agree.. got a bit of a headache going on, and seeing that and pondering what it'd feel like to be strapped in those .. torture device dresses, made my headache worse...

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Carol Wheeler

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08/04/2014

Had a look at the family history. Very interesting reading .

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Jan Stcharles

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08/04/2014

Love that style. .must have been hot though!

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Fiona Warner

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08/04/2014

Fashions go around in the circle, I remember when huge shoulder pads were fashionable in the 1980's!

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Ruth Crook

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08/04/2014

So do I. Ugly things. But these dresses don't have shoulder pads. They have puffed sleeves.

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Jo Lawrence

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08/04/2014

mutton-chop sleeves

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Victoria Carter

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08/04/2014

The 80's were the only time I had shoulders :)

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Nell Antoine

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08/04/2014

They look like a miserable bunch tho..

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Carol Folks

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08/04/2014

And that material was so heavy, and they had no fans or AC, I would have passed out, just from wearing one, UGH !!!! :O(

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Phyllis Weber

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08/04/2014

Those are sleeves.

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Peggy S Hill

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08/04/2014

How did they breath?!?!

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Andrea Brown

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08/04/2014

This just reminds me of the 80's !

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Lisa Roy

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08/04/2014

Not one of them is smiling.....

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Terri Travers

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08/04/2014

Leg o'mutton sleeves were so popular in the1890's! The bigger, the better! *lol*

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Sonya Pavic Blankley

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08/04/2014

Wealthy people. Lovely photo!!

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Lisa Roy

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08/04/2014

I noticed a lot of People around that time looked miserable..

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Catherine Ridinger

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08/04/2014

Most people didnt smile in those days cause of their teeth ...I could not imagine the weight of those dresses being in all day...and I agree..HOT!!

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Denny Super-Witwer

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08/04/2014

Those are called mutton sleeves. The were very popular back them.

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Cathy Weatherby

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08/04/2014

Beautiful photo.

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Heidi Conaty Weeks

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08/04/2014

They aren't smiling because you had to sit still for a long time to take a picture.

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Kathy Butler

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08/04/2014

Wow

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Stravo Lukos

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08/04/2014

but the insane corsets. & dressed like that in the heat of summer? i'd die.

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Jeanette Brooks

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08/04/2014

I love the puffed sleeves, and look at the large collar on that young man.

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Bobbi Minne

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08/04/2014

Interesting that no one is smiling....

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Judy Kroh

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08/04/2014

It's the waist that gets me-How could anyone breath?

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Tracy J. Thurman

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08/04/2014

That look so uncomfortable in those clothes, neat pic though

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Norine Simmons

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08/04/2014

I wonder if any of these people were part of the penal colony that excisted at or around the same time.

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Carol Wheeler

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08/04/2014

Fabulous photo. Look wealthy and prosperous. Do we know anything else about this family ? From England?

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Ron Riedell

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08/09/2014

Magnus came to Australia from Denmark in about 1860 for the gold rush. He didn't find gold but was a successful farmer

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Carol Wheeler

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08/10/2014

Wow ! Thank you.

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Christine Anderson

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08/04/2014

In the ozzy heat , yuck!

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Rose Rader Jayah

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08/04/2014

My goodness whoever designed clothes for women in those days didn't want women to be very comfortable or even nice looking. They had to wear those corsets too so they couldn't even breathe!

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Cyndi Bireley

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08/04/2014

Designed to make the waist look that much smaller, but if I had to carry around all that material and padding all the time, I truly would have the "vapors".

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Andrea Cooper

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08/04/2014

Very nice pic, but I think someone (everyone) got tired of smiling & posing! Lol

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Eileen Scarcella Wierzbicki

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08/04/2014

I love these formal family portraits. Wish they were still done!

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Kristin Gaffney Roca

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08/04/2014

Little girls dress is too big for her

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Lulu Kranz

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08/04/2014

They wore corsets so tite some times they fainted but liked big butt bussles. N big shoulders just wanted tiny waists they set posed several minutes for cameras back then is why there were no smiles all facial muscles had remain still

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Patti Rodriguez

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08/04/2014

It gets HOT in Australia!!! Give me a halter top and some cut offs.....flip flops....

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Carol Holmes Keene

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08/04/2014

How did they survive the heat wearing all that?

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Amy Young Recktenwald

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08/04/2014

Lovely photo. The two young ladies in the middle didn't look the slightest bit happy. Most of the others do.....but lovely photo.

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Nefri Balthazar

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08/04/2014

Incredible. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around why these folks dressed up so much

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Suzanne Turner

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08/04/2014

Look at those tiny, corsetted wastes!!

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Judy Campbell Miller

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08/04/2014

Leg a mutton sleeves stuffed with tissue paper.

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Cindy Pruss

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08/04/2014

I can't imagine being a menopausal woman with hot flashes back in those days. I'm sure many of them fainted from the heat.

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Jill Manatt Sexton

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08/04/2014

Haha!!!!! Having a hot flash right now! So agree! ;)

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Ann Gleeson

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08/04/2014

Remember Dallas Alexei and co had similar sized shoulder pads? Ah the good old 80's lol

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Carol Strube

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08/04/2014

Not breathing thats why nobody is smiling.

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Georgia Smith Montoya

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08/04/2014

what a great photo to have!

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Barefeet Belle

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08/04/2014

well dressed....clearly they weren't the convicts :/

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Jean Brady

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08/04/2014

somebody forgot to say 'cheese'

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Betsy Englehart

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08/04/2014

whenever you see these kind of pictures, they never smile !!

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Cherie Gibbs

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08/04/2014

I wonder if they are all their Children. I love the photo.

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Becky Burdeaux

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08/04/2014

Can you imagine how hot Australia was wearing those dresses.

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Laurel Simmons Kelly

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08/04/2014

They look so thrilled- probably so uncomfortable in the corset s

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R Joseph Vignati

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08/04/2014

People wore more Clothing at one time ,but had Less outfits . Clothing cost more and was mostly Homemade . These people are in their "Sunday Best" not Everyday wear .

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Lynette Burke

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08/04/2014

Gorgeous photo I wonder how they washed those dresses none of my older photo's have the people smiling. Getting everyone ready would have taken a lot of time. I live in Shepparton and when it is Hot it is very hot. but very cold here at the moment.

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Laura Galvan

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08/04/2014

Is the the Riedell's as in Riedell crystal?

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Ron Riedell

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08/09/2014

If you mean Riedel Glassware, I don't know. Some of their ancestors spelt their name with one 'l' ie Riedel

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Nori Monroe

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08/04/2014

No slouching with corsets...lol

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Jackie Wachtel

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08/04/2014

It's like the clothes they wore on "Dynasty"!

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Vanessa Reyanna Ojai

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08/04/2014

shoulder pads will make a comeback very soon...lol

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Liliana Haydeé Sala

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08/04/2014

Muy buena toma.

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Paul Famiano

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08/04/2014

and to think, they didn't have air conditioning then!!

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Joann River Burnich

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08/04/2014

I very much like this photograph. I just look at it and imagine the daily work these women (and/or the men) did, and the conversations, the accents. Wonderful

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Gloria Haley

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08/04/2014

nice family

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Patricia Moon Bilker

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08/04/2014

Joan Crawford would be so jealous

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Ree Young

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08/04/2014

The amount of fabric that went into those clothes...and so many of them were made especially for each woman...very few off-the-rack clothes. How the women survived in the heat I don't know!

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