Clothes for older people

margaretclare

Errata wrote: »

Marks £9.50 trackie bottoms don't look like trackie bottomes, are very comfy, look like jersey trousers and can go in the washing machine.

Or LandsEnd. http://www.landsend.co.uk/Women%27s-Jogging-Bottoms/P_9979,en_GB,pd.html

Because I have short legs (I said I have a difficult figure!!) I wear the cropped version, which they don't seem to have in their current list. Those and a polo shirt are what I live in most of the time. I like to look smart when I go out. I can sympathise about the skirts and tights in a wheelchair - they'd be very difficult to cope with. DH helps me put on tights - I have a struggle if he's not around.

pollypenny

I like the M&S jersey trousers, which I wear for Tai Chi now - must get another pair.

pineapple

margaretclare wrote: »

Why do 'older people' need different clothes than anyone else?

Can I have a definition of 'older people' please? When you are a teen, anyone over 25 is old. The benchmark tends to move depending on how old you are.
I see TV ads targetted at over 50s - as if by definition anyone over 50 lives on a separate planet of illness and infirmity :mad:. Being over 60 (just) I take exception to this sort of thing.
As for 'age appropriate' clothing, I'm more concerned with what suits my body shape etc. It has to be said there are some older peeps who look better in a crop top than many a lumpy teen .
It all makes me feel like putting on my new secondhand Doc Martens and strutting my stuff round Sainsbury's forthwith! :rotfl:

margaretclare

pineapple wrote: »

Can I have a definition of 'older people' please? I see TV ads targetted at over 50s - as if anyone over 50 lives on a separate planet of illness and infirmity :mad:. Being over 60 (just) I take exception to this sort of thing.
As for 'age appropriate' clothing, I'm more concerned with what suits my body shape etc. It has to be said there are some older peeps who look better in a crop top than many a lumpy teen .
It all makes me feel like putting on my new secondhand Doc Martens and strutting my stuff round Sainsbury's forthwith! :rotfl:

I completely agree with you! Exactly my point.

I listened to someone on the radio recently saying that by the time women reached 'maturity' they will have experimented with all kinds of things and found, by trial and error, what suits them - found their own individual style, in other words.

I've looked on all kinds of sites like FiftyPlus and have found a variety of clothes to choose from. I also found another one - can't remember where it was - which talked about clothes for women in care homes. It appears that they thought older women should wear pinafore dresses. Not my style at all.

I have a 'difficult' figure. B 38, H 38, but 4' 9" tall. So I'm short and stocky. If I was tall and slim it would be entirely different. When I go anywhere that matters - like conference on Saturday - I wore a tailored blouse and skirt. Most of the time I wear LandsEnd crop trousers which are *not* crops on me, a polo shirt and an ancient sweat-shirt. Oh, and always a hat, because of hair loss. I have a blue denim hat which I like.

We're away for the weekend in early October, 250 miles further north so it will be my olive needlecord skirt and my M&S twin-sets. Maybe winter coat, who knows!

missile

Just because one is old, doesn't mean we should get stuck in a routine. I like to experiment with a.n.other styles but I have learnt to avoid cheap clothes, which I find always look ............. well .............. cheap.

whitesatin

The care home where my 95 year old mother lives, often requests clothes for special occasions, e.g. birthday, Christmas and even New Year outfits have to be provided. My mum was never into clothes at all and now she is dressed up to the nines as they want their "clients" to look good for one reason or another. She doesn't even look like my mum on occasions. She never was a twinset and pearls lady now she looks like the queen.

Anyway, we buy the stuff, as requested, but then it goes missing, is washed badly and ruined etc. etc.

We run out of ideas of what to buy her next.

meg72

gingerfox wrote: »

I put it back in the wash.

Love this, it is surely not beyound expectations if an item is labelled with the right name that it ends up in the right place.

Errata

Wondering what age elderly or older person starts, I had a google and found this WHO definition

Most developed world countries have accepted the chronological age of 65 years as a definition of 'elderly' or older person,

AT 65 nobody can get away any longer with calling themselves young or middle aged. So until different terms are created, elderly and older people won't be going away any time soon. And of course, old is anyone ten years older than oneself.

fiscalfreckles

I buy for my elderly (80) MIL who lives in a care home.

Mostly from M&S, Bon Marche or J D Williams.

Specail consideration does need to be given to comfort, ease of fastenings, getting on & off etc (she needs help dressing) & they need to wash well as everything gets chucked in the same hot wash!

meg72

whitesatin wrote: »

The care home where my 95 year old mother lives, often requests clothes for special occasions, e.g. birthday, Christmas and even New Year outfits have to be provided. My mum was never into clothes at all and now she is dressed up to the nines as they want their "clients" to look good for one reason or another. She doesn't even look like my mum on occasions. She never was a twinset and pearls lady now she looks like the queen.

Anyway, we buy the stuff, as requested, but then it goes missing, is washed badly and ruined etc. etc.

We run out of ideas of what to buy her next.

I really wouldnt do this love, who is important here your Mum or the home, I dont care what they want their clients to look like, I wanted my Mum to look like what she wanted, and what I knew my Mum to look like.