Jeans or No Jeans ?

twink

well thats me off jeans, maybe when son said the colour was too light he was maybe just being diplomatic..lol

myrnahaz

My son once told his granny that she shouldn't wear jeans as her face was too crinkly - she was 54 years old at the time!!

I have to admit to buying a pair of brown jeans so I'd have the benefit of jeans without feeling too past-it. It didn't really work and I'm back in my blue wranglers again.

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margaretclare wrote:

What age to stop wearing jeans? Never.

Margaret Clare

Rock on Margaret Clare I'm with you on this. I am errm... getting on a bit, and not a little person, but to me I would rather wear a good pair of jeans than a pair of those awful polyester things that women of a certain age are supposed to wear. Or joggers.
My jogging days are long-gone and I have enough trouble walking, but my girls would soon have a go if I started to get to be an old lady. I wear trainers as well, as they are really comfy.
I refuse to go down the road of dyeing my hair blue and wearing nora batty stockings and tweeds and twinsets Inside I am still 17 it's the outside that is worn away through time
In this day and age it's how you feel that matters and if someone disapproves the tough.
I hate to be pidgeon-holed because I'm old :j

Dora_the_Explorer_5

:eek: Thought it was about time I 'owned up'. I'm 60+ and still wearing jeans - flares, straight legs, whatever the current fashionable shape is. I wear them with flip-flops, stilletoes, boots according to the weather and with pretty tops out to dinner in capital cities I have a brutally honest friend in her 30's who has promised to let me know when I look 60+ from the back as well as the front - and she will :rotfl:
So far I'm getting away with it, but what prompted my question was the fact that I wore my first pair of jeans at 14 (do the math !), and find it hard to visualise a time when they won't be appropriate. The time will come, that's for sure, like the time arrived when the shoulder length hairstyle I'd had for decades had to be replaced by something rather shorter and more flattering and elegant for my age.
Perhaps it's a question of size and shape rather than years? I've certainly seen some horrible sights the last couple of years - teenagers and 20 somethings wearing low waisted jeans when they should have been wearing a good corset

jenniferpa

I'm 50 and I can't imagine a time when I won't wear jeans. I've got children, so of course I rely on them to tell me when to stop! I think the mistake that we of a certain age make is sometimes going down the coordinated route (jeans, shirt, jacket all in denim) Oh, and pressed creases. Provided they are well cut and dark and not too low waisted (I've seen the same things as Dora) I'll keep wearing them.

aurora_borealis_2

Perhaps it's a question of size and shape rather than years? I've certainly seen some horrible sights the last couple of years - teenagers and 20 somethings wearing low waisted jeans when they should have been wearing a good corset

That's it in a nutshell

margaretclare

Hi JackieO

I just do NOT fit the stereotype for my age - I'm 70. For a start, I'm not poor. I'm in a very happy second marriage. I don't spend my life whingeing about....'isn't it chilly today, isn't it awful that (toss your own coin)'... I don't regale everyone I meet with my entire medical history in the first 5 minutes. I don't queue up at the post office and bemoan the fact that pension books have gone - I never had one in the first place. I can cope with chip-and-PIN, I have no problem with it. Anything else? Oh yes - clothes. I buy quite a lot of mine from Nightingales https://www.nightingales.ltd.uk, or Penny Plain https://www.pennyplain.co.uk

There is no way in the world that you'll ever see me in polyester, certainly not those awful all-round pleated skirts, preferably with uneven hemline.

Shall I confess something? I am losing my hair. It's similar to male pattern hair loss - getting thin on the crown of my head. Apparently nothing can be done about it. I've seen other older women with a similar problem - what I do is to wear little bandanna scarves. I found this: http://www.headcovers.com/item.php?cat=Scarves&next=0
Some of them are pre-tied (at the back, not under chin Her Majesty style!!) and are quite pretty. I have a fringe at the front, so it doesn't look too bad.

Dora, I've never worn a good corset in my life, but I do take your point about some of the bare bellies I've seen on show. Saw one this afternoon - OK she was young, but she had stretch marks!

Margaret Clare

Supergran_2

I will be 60 this year, I feel about 20 in the head and even though the body is ageing my daughter says I look good in my jeans, I don't know what I would do without them.

I love the idea that jeans are acceptable for a casual evening out with a nice top to smarten up. I hate wearing my smart pants now I don't feel as comfortable in them.
As others have said I will stop wearing them when my daughter tells me I am to old.

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margaretclare wrote:

Hi JackieO

I just do NOT fit the stereotype for my age - I'm 70. For a start, I'm not poor. I'm in a very happy second marriage. I don't spend my life whingeing about....'isn't it chilly today, isn't it awful that (toss your own coin)'... I don't regale everyone I meet with my entire medical history in the first 5 minutes. I don't queue up at the post office and bemoan the fact that pension books have gone - I never had one in the first place. I can cope with chip-and-PIN, I have no problem with it. Anything else? Oh yes - clothes. I buy quite a lot of mine from Nightingales www.nightingales.ltd.uk, or Penny Plain www.pennyplain.co.uk

There is no way in the world that you'll ever see me in polyester, certainly not those awful all-round pleated skirts, preferably with uneven hemline.

Shall I confess something? I am losing my hair. It's similar to male pattern hair loss - getting thin on the crown of my head. Apparently nothing can be done about it. I've seen other older women with a similar problem - what I do is to wear little bandanna scarves. I found this: http://www.headcovers.com/item.php?cat=Scarves&next=0
Some of them are pre-tied (at the back, not under chin Her Majesty style!!) and are quite pretty. I have a fringe at the front, so it doesn't look too bad.

Dora, I've never worn a good corset in my life, but I do take your point about some of the bare bellies I've seen on show. Saw one this afternoon - OK she was young, but she had stretch marks!

Margaret Clare

Hi ,I have just had a look at the two sites you mentioned and they look really good I shall send off for a catlogue I think.Especially the pennyplain site was interesting.
I to object to being catogorised, I can think of nothing worse than buying one of those Gor-ray type pleated skirts.The last pleated skirt I wore was a kilt when I was a little girel many years ago.Re the low-slung trousers that seem to be popular with the young girls nowadays . It's probably alright if you are maybe a slim 6- 8 but any more and it looks horrible. ,and the fashion of baring your tummy or wearing a skimpy top when 7-8 months pregnant is just not a pretty sight. A pregnant woman looks lovely but not with her belly stuck in out front like a football.
less is more as they say. I have never queued in the post office for my pension either it gets paid straight into the bank,it's far safer that way,I bank online anyway.
Theres plenty of life in the older generation, I go to adult education classes and a part-time Uni course and I am the oldest person there.My fellow students are all in their late teens and early twenties and I get along just fine with them. Once they got over the shock of this old Granny sitting with them they have all been great.:D

Dora_the_Explorer_5

I'm sticking to M&S - if it's good enough for Twiggy it's good enough for me :j