Back in the day, one of my shipmates in Navy boot camp took advantage of our first liberty to have a massive tattoo made on his forearm of an eagle circling its claws around his boot camp company number. Can you imagine going through life like that?
As for fashion, circa 1900, makeup on women was mostly reserved for sex workers of the day. And men wore morning coats and hats outdoors. Times change, but at least makeup is mostly non-permanent.
I moved my family to Canada in the early seventies. On moving back to the US around 1980, I was shocked at the nonchalant use of filthy language by young women I encountered. Just shake your head and move on.
Men did NOT wear "morning coats" as a "normal" daily dress, in 1900! Such clothing was for formal occasions and it is still worn for daytime weddings, in America and for other special events in the UK!
Re "makeup" at the turn of the century...it really depends on what you are calling makeup! Lipstick? Yes, that was only for women on the stage and prostitutes.
Powder and perhaps a wee bit of rouge? Lots of women, just "normal" women, wore that.
Tattoos?
For most of western history, only FREAKS had tons of tattoos and nobody was getting tattoos on their private parts, eyeballs, nor face!
Re "dirty" language....that all started in California in 1964 and was well underway, sadly, when you moved to Canada! So just WHY weren't you at all aware of it?
You wouldn’t believe the “collegiate” students I deal with while working as a tutor on campus.
I won’t eat in the cafeteria since I do not want to be angry all the time at their use of foul, HOSTILE language - those are fightin’ Words!
I went to this school 25 years ago. We did NOT let expletives fly so glibly, men or women, and as every other word! Certainly not so publicly...they don’t even care if the occasional child is there eating!