Date by style of hair

[ann255]

I am trying to date this photo.  Can someone please tell me at what age girls put their hair up, and also the length of their dresses went down.  My great grandmother is pictured standing on the left as  you look at the photo next to her father.  She still has her hair down, as do 2 younger sisters, whilst the older 3 have theirs dressed up. She was born in 1888.

[chinakay]

Around 1900 by the looks of this. Girls put their hair up when they were of marriageable age. Does she look about 12ish to you?

Cheers,
China

[Treetotal]

I think she looks about 14/15...the other girl looks to be about 12.
Carol

[josey]

I would say the 3 younger girls look 13, 9-10 & 6.

Josey

[ann255]

It seems most of you think she is around 12/13 which would date the photo to say 1901 for her being 13.  This would give two older sisters (dressed alike - evidently they always used to) ages as 23 and 21. The other elder sister as 18.  The young girl standing next to her mother would then have been 11, and the youngest 7.  Mum and dad, 49 and 58 respectively.
Thank you everyone.

[jim1]

Agree with the dates,v.early 1900's however the skirt length on the girl on the left would put her closer to 14/15.
1 possibly 2 sisters are married & this looks like a postcard rather than a CdeV which would place it after 1902.

jim

[JohnCH]

1904 ish.

[chinakay]

Can we see a scan of the back please.

Cheers,
China

[ann255]

I am afraid my photo is only a copy, and I am not sure if the original exists, I believe it may be a copy of a copy.
Have done some juggling with dates and even assuming my grandmother is 15 (1903) none of the sisters were married.  Have been trying to think of a reason for this formal photograph, as I know often it was to mark a significant occassion, but cannot seem to see any clues from it. 
As the 2 sisters used to always dress alike I wondered what else they might have done together and I have found them both in the 1901 census working in the same household, one as a domestic nursemaid and the other as a domestic servant. (I had missed this earlier as one of them had been transcribed incorrectly and so hadnt come up when searching) They would both have been in their early 20s at this time so I presume they had worked elsewhere previously.
A mystery I shall never know the answer to, but I do have a timeframe for the date of the photo which was what I originally wanted to know.
Thanks again.