[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?

Very true about the catalogs: in its ads, Avenue pretty much uses
"plus-size"
professional models, but the skinny ones are sprinkled in here and there.
From your pics it would appear you dress much more conservatively than

CatNipped...

I *have* to! I'm 54 years old and I just lost over 100 pounds - my skin is
pooling around my ankles - I wouldn't subject that sight on anyone!!! ;>
To see what I *really* look like, go here:

I do (Avenue is very trendy/faddy/fashionista; LB much less so) but I
really don't like buying clothes from catalogs because as you point out,
you never know what something will look like on YOU instead of either
in a drawing, photo, or a model 100# less than you, LOL......

I'm watching "The View" and one of their "hot topics" was whether women
should stop wearing certain types of clothing as they get older (the example

meee...

Good!!! You should! I tend to be rather thinnish and my husband is from a
Pacific Islands country where they like their women curvaceous. He has

Yoj...

wear

Yoj...

LOL! I guess that was a freudian slip. I'd love to see him in a skirt.

informed me that all his aunties will do their best to feed me up when we
visit, and he will probably get told off for starving his wife and kids (my
2 boys being rather runty like me).....beauty is in the eye of the

Shirley...

School dress codes were very strictly adhered to - girls were not
allowed to wear trousers, skirts/dresses hemlines no higher than knee
length (checked by making us kneel and our hem had to touch the
floor), grey knee length socks, navy or grey tights (thick wooly
things that itched like mad) in winter and white ankle socks in
summer, grey sunray pleated skirt or blue with white polka dot dresses
(all the same style) for summer, black blazer, navy raincoat with the
hood lined in red, pale blue shirt, navy juliet cap, grey beret or
straw boater hat (detention for anyone caught in uniform outside
school without a hat on), navy cardigan and flat black lace up shoes.

I won't go into all the sports wear and other stuff except to say that
our initials had to be sewn onto every piece in red embroidery thread.

I went a little 'fashion mad' when I left school, I wore the shortest
mini's the brightest colours etc (I had and still have very long slim
legs). ;-)

beholder!!!

CatNipped...

I agree totally - I never put what other people think about me over what I
feel comfortable with.

NMR...

I have a saying that my dad told me that his dad told him and so on. It is
a well known saying to this day if you don't like it there is the door
don't let the doorknob hit you where the good lord split ya

used was women who were over 40 shouldn't wear "Juicies" work-out clothes.
Someone said that *nobody* should wear sleeveless blouses or dresses if they
have flabby upper arms (here in Houston where it sometimes gets to be 115F
with 2000% humidity this flabby-upper-armed MaMere *really* objects to that
objection!).

What do you guys think? Should you not wear a mini skirt - even if you have
killer legs - past a certain age?

glsummer...

Never having been a slave to fashion myself, I think you wear whatever
you want. Some things look weird to me, but hey, if *you're*
comfortable, who cares what I think? I hate being hot, and I'm gonna
keep wearing my sleeveless shirts and flapping my arms, no matter what
anyone else thinks. ;-)

Ginger-lyn
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Kreisleriana...

Well, ideally, it should be a case-by-case basis. But people so
often just don't seem to show any good sense about this. I am coming
to the conclusion though, that it can't possibly be people's fault
that so many of them are so bad at judging their own appearance. I
think it is just too complex an issue. People's self-image, their
upbringing, peer-pressure, the media, and marketing, all play roles in
this.

But I decided a couple of years ago, and have no changed my mind, that
low-cut pants and spandex are not rights, but privileges.

Theresa

Make Levees, Not War