Were these plastic cups already standard back then?
I think those might actually be frosted glass cups.
Here is the best copy I could find, and the flared edges do not look like plastic cups - also the shiny inside and matte outside looks more like glass frosted on the outside.
PP was not in commercial use until 1957 (not sure when it was first used for cups), PET disposable cups weren’t a thing until the 70s. Disposable cups in the 50s would have been wax paper.
I’ll take “What’s classy when you’re rich but not when you’re poor?” for $100 Alex
Looks like someone wanted them to pose as such to make a funny photo
Is that a cigarette in his hands? He was 12 years old in 1955.
Well, the princess is downing a bottle of fortified wine, so it would seem that’s just par for the course.
When I was 14, my parents ordered a bottle of wine in a restaurant and asked, if I wanted a glass. Nobody thought twice about it.
I was smoking at 12 in France in 1999, I told tobacconists I was buying them for my mom. Pulled the same thing off in the states when I moved there 2 years later. And I was far from alone. These are far more recent (terrible, obviously) habits than you might think.
I’m sure they grew up to be normal, well-adjusted and down to earth kids.