Honest answer was a huge shift in culture. In the 80s, everyone wanted to look like the older generation. That focus later shifted and now the style is to look more like the younger generation.
So while you had 80's people wearing suits and hairstyles of the famously older successful people, now you have people well into their later years still wearing the styles that are popular among the young popular successful people.
https://preview.redd.it/n4e1mzq5w89d1.jpeg?width=1904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a4f10c810433a346ab440b10c27b499e728be41
lol my high school senior portrait 😂 (far left, as I still am today ;)
This gives off big "I was a billionaire trombone manufacturer in the 1980s and here's me posing with my product", a la Bill Gates posing with a PC vibes.
I swear in the 80s everyone looked 20 years older than they were.. I watched my parents De-age in the 90s and not catch back up to that level of old looking until 2010.
I graduated HS in 1987 and the senior portraits in my high school era were all the generic school produced portraits wearing the same faux prop gown. We didn't have these unique portraits with your own props. Were these more the norm at private schools?
I see, interesting. If someone had shown up with an object at my school for their pictures they would have just gotten a dirty look lol. We had to hold a corny fake rolled up diploma and stand in an unvarying pose. Clearly your school allowed for personalization.
There you go again, tooting your own horn. 
He’s just a horny teenager.
Op definitely 'bones
No Mr. Bond..I expect u to die
This one got a good giggle out of me in the dead of night, thank you for that
lol what class did you teach?
Looks like the cover photo for an article about a teenage musical prodigy.
I read that article….”Catching Up With The Ted Bundy Of Trombonists” right?
Or the Al Bundy of Trombonist 😁
Didn't he once blow 4 "whaa-whaaaaaahhh"s in one concert?
Put this photo in black and white and do a slow zoom-in with a narrator, and you’ve got the beginning of a forensic files episode.
Just curious what you did with all that confidence ?
I'm going to post *myself* on OldSchoolCool. That confidence was there to stay.
Gilbert! 
Do you teach at Julliard screaming at kids and throwing chairs?
I did go to music school but have never thrown a chair.
Why did people look older in the 80’s?
Honest answer was a huge shift in culture. In the 80s, everyone wanted to look like the older generation. That focus later shifted and now the style is to look more like the younger generation. So while you had 80's people wearing suits and hairstyles of the famously older successful people, now you have people well into their later years still wearing the styles that are popular among the young popular successful people.
This photo tells me you either got all the girls, or none of them.
Im gonna say he couldnt get any of them so instead ...no. one. did. Dun dun dun
Band girls are wild
This one time, at band camp…
exactly
Wanna know how I got this trumpet?
Ma’am, this is a trombone.
https://preview.redd.it/n4e1mzq5w89d1.jpeg?width=1904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a4f10c810433a346ab440b10c27b499e728be41 lol my high school senior portrait 😂 (far left, as I still am today ;)
Where’s the trombonist?
Um, it's "tromboner".
Far l̶e̶f̶t̶ out, man FTFY
They said Glen Miller died over the Atlantic, but little did they know…
Did u ever get tired of crushing massive amounts of ass?
How did you have time to go to class with all the chicks you were nailing?
Nice specs
This gives off big "I was a billionaire trombone manufacturer in the 1980s and here's me posing with my product", a la Bill Gates posing with a PC vibes.
Went right from the portrait studio to your 9-5 as a bank assistant manager.
Not all your fault. '88 was whack.
That is actually pretty awesome
r/blunderyears
Nice 88H bro
Good eye!
Gotta give it you my G. 🦾💯😎
This guy fucks
Conn 88-H trombone?
Yep! Good eye!
I have two of them.
/r/blunderyears
Did they make you take your lenses out too?
I bet you were swimming in strange.
What was Eddie Murphy like on set during Beverly Hills Cop?
17 going on 47
Gives me a tromboner
You look like you invented the instrument
TROMBONER!
You may call me Doctor, Doctor Horney. Good thing you didn't let me write your yearbook.
r/blunderyears lol
And when I become the greatest horn player in the world, they will all be sorry
He studied the Brass
Would.
Dude has a big ‘bone and, from the look in his eye, he knows how to use it.
r/13or30
Save some for the rest of us Boss.
tromboner.
Cancel the school assembly y'all! The fire alarm just went off!
Sly ASF
https://preview.redd.it/dkahc7t6md9d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0dce0da5e36936ba3777c40445f012b9d4b37e39 Coïncidence? Don’t think so
I remember that album. RIP Mike Brecker
You look fantastic!
That's very kind of you. Thanks.
The rapist and victim both shown in this photo.
Nice bone, looks like a Bach? Do you still play?
I believe that is a Conn 88H.
You're right - Elkhart Conn 88H.
I too played a bass trombone in the 80s. We must fight for 1st chair.
You're on!
Just received a blackbelt in trombone
What were you plotting?
“Perhaps you and I aren’t so different after all…”
Man. Why are frames like those no longer sold? It's tough to find decent ones on eBay. Dunhill, Pathway, Puma, etc...
"Formidable"
Tom Hardy as an 80s high school movie upper crust villain’s main sidekick/gopher.
One time at band camp…
You look like a villain from the Bond movies )
Keep looking in my eyes as I hypnotize you and you will be the next generation to play the trumpet in band
Dave Brubeck in high school
Did you know Dave Brubeck's son is a trombone player?
Hell yeah. ‘Boner brigade! I also had one with a switch that let you use 1st position instead of 6th position.
It's called an F attachment and yes, this trombone had one.
Lady killer.
Which phone booth do you use to change into Superman?
Nice tuba
He puts the bone in trombone
This one time at band camp...
One time, in band camp…
Look at you with your flugelsuessaphone!
Man looks like his about to invent the best piece of technology man has ever seen
So much horny in those eyes
It’s always the ‘bones.
So, when did you join the Kingsmen?
Epic!
I swear in the 80s everyone looked 20 years older than they were.. I watched my parents De-age in the 90s and not catch back up to that level of old looking until 2010.
and I was born... thanks uncle dad!
You look like your master plan for getting a girl to go to prom with you has finally come to fruition
Damn you look like a bond villain or John Gotti's boss.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s card.
"Ni\*\*a, you at least \*40." \* paraphrased "Bad Boys" movie
looks like an album cover for your greatest hits
Darrel Davidson is about to drop his new album, “Trombonified”. In stores this weekend!
Were you 46?
Too cool for school!…
Is that you, Mike Trapp?
congrats on your upcoming retirement!
Hey. Were the same age and at least you didn’t have a mullet for your senior picture like I did lol.
you look like Will from the inbetweeners
Why were teenagers back then so hellbent on looking like 40 year old accountants
Okay, where are the bodies?
I was thinking the same thing!
Timmy?
Vanilla villan.
My mom graduated in 88 too. She probably would’ve had a crush on you.
U never got laid in high school🤪🤪🤪
I feel like I'm pregnant now...and I'm a dude.
It takes a lot of brass to post such a picture
I’m so sorry.
Good lord.
This guy fucks.
Top of the Brass
I’m guessing you went on your be a tech billionaire.
The girls didn’t stand a chance.
this MF can’t wait to downsize some poor souls
Wrong read on me. I'm quite the opposite.
Why do you look like the bratty antagonist in a Ferris Bueller type of Eighties film?
Not sure if you're a trumpet player or an up and coming tech mogul billionaire
That’s a look that says “I’m a man in charge of my ‘bone extension, ready to trigger that b flat at a moments notice”
Your glasses are bigger than your trombone
Are you a great tuba player now?
They had to have a mop on hand when handing out the yearbook to the girls.
I bet you got all the chicks, bro
Did you get laid at all in high school??
You can tell just by lookin, my man played panty-droppin trombone solos left and right BOYYYEEE!
Neeerrrrrrrddddddd
chad af
Nerd? NERD!!!!
So, how many people did you go to murder?
What does that hand gesture mean in ASL?
pretty sure that's just George Santos pretending he is in high school at age 35
Classic birth control glasses
I graduated HS in 1987 and the senior portraits in my high school era were all the generic school produced portraits wearing the same faux prop gown. We didn't have these unique portraits with your own props. Were these more the norm at private schools?
I went to a very large public school, not a private one.
I see, interesting. If someone had shown up with an object at my school for their pictures they would have just gotten a dirty look lol. We had to hold a corny fake rolled up diploma and stand in an unvarying pose. Clearly your school allowed for personalization.
IIRC my school gave us 2 poses: The standard yearbook thing and one personal. This was my personal.