At the Overlook, late 1930s

Found photo Since we can’t really see the background in this photo, it could have been taken just about anywhere. Maybe it was snapped on some Sunday afternoon drive after church where these two women stopped to enjoy the view. Two factors make me guess that the photo comes from the late 1930s. The puffed sleeves and pintucks, evident in the lighter dress, were common features in the late thirties. Even the sleeves on the dark dress have a little puff. More telling is the difference in the skirt lengths. Skirts were rising throughout the 1930s. The woman on the left wears a dress to the mid-calf, more common in the middle of the decade. However, the dress on the right comes to just below the knee, a look from the end of the decade or even the start of the 1940s. The tilted hats are very much in style. But what decorates the hat on the right? Doesn’t it look like a bundle of twigs?