Photo dating challenge #5!

[PrueM]

Is there a way of telling whether a  photo was taken a few years after the clothing style was fashionable or they were bang up to date
Gadget

Hi Gadget,
As far as I've been able to make out with the hundreds of photos I've looked at, there are only two ways to be 100% certain of an exact date, and they are to have a photo of a particular event for which you know the date, or to have the date written on the back by someone who knew what it was (e.g. it was written on at the time).
You can use a combination of fashions in hair and clothing, posing styles, photograph type, photo size, mounting style (e.g. on a card, postcard, not stuck to anything), photographer's details, and decoration on the card to guess at a date pretty near to when the photo was taken, but it's pretty hard to be 100% sure.  If it was that easy, we wouldn't have these fun little contests would we!   
Prue

[Tephra]

Where's that drawing board, I need it again!!   Only 10 years out this time, I'm getting closer.

Thanks Prue, these are fun (even if I am wrong ALL the time)

Congratulations Annie, well done.

Barbara             

[Gadget]

It really is fun Prue, thanks ever so for doing this - keep 'em coming
I just had this thought that, although people were likely to put on their best bib and tucker for photos then, there would be variations in dress because of (say) distance from the fashion centres - rural, the then-colonies, wealth etc. Though I expect teh poor didn't have many photos taken of them.
Thanks for your reply

Gadget

[dwalin]

  id say late Victorian/early Edwardian  by the lace and the style of the sitting.
well i can only try lol
dwalin

[Gadget]

Prue

Where's #6

We're waiting - or did I mis it
Gadget