What does dress your age really mean????

valk_scot

MrsE wrote: »

NO NO NO

Clothes should be to enhance your appearance!!!

Nooo, clothes are primarily for warmth and protection from the environment, followed by modesty and after that for conveying social messages. Or should the last two be the other way round?

Anyway, it would be pretty silly to choose your outfit for climbing Ben Nevis on the basis of enhancing your appearance dontcha think? Or high heels to dig a ditch in, or a low cut top to mop up vomit in the ward. Etc etc. Enhancing your appearance is one of the reasons to choose a particular garment over another but it certainly shouldn't be the top reason every time. I'm off to dig the garden soon and I can assure you, what I look like will be the last thing on my mind. (I'll be wearing old grubby cut off chinos, an old shirt of OH's as sun protection, steel toed work boots and a floppy hat, if anyone is interested. I'd be wearing my Crocs though if I wasn't digging.)

jetplane

zaxdog wrote: »

Just wondering as I got ready to go out tonight if the way you dress has changed a lot since you were younger?

For example tonight I'm wearing black leggings, a black mini tutu type skirt, t-shirt with a ribcage on it and black sneakers with purple stars on them.............at 37 I doubt I am likely to change my style much now but lots of the women of my age seem to have morphed into "beige cardi wearers"

Thoughts?

Well being in my 50's of course the way I dress has changed since i was younger, the fashions have come round for the second time

Thoughts?....You use 'beige cardi wearers' as a way of describing boring and I don't believe that most women of 37 are beige cardi wearers, I think that you are feeling great and maybe you look great, for now, but there will come a time when dressing a certain way should be left to those younger than yourself. Until then enjoy it without mocking or judging others who may well think that you look ridiculous and are laughing into the sleeve of their beige cardigan.

So dressing your age, in my opinion means keeping your style but if you don't adapt it you will look like mutton dressed as lamb.

I have a friend in her 50's who is a slave to fashion, she is small and slim but is a laughing stock because she insists on wearing the fashion aimed at a far younger generation. And two goth friends also in their 50's dress a lot like you describe and to be truthful they look like fraggle rock in their efforts to keep up with their younger peers.

OrkneyStar

jetplane wrote: »

Well being in my 50's of course the way I dress has changed the fashions have come round for the second time :rotfl:

Thoughts?....You use 'beige cardi wearers' as a way of describing boring and I don't believe that most women of 37 are beige cardi wearers, I think that you are feeling great and maybe you look great, for now, but there will come a time when dressing a certain way should be left to those younger than yourself. Until then enjoy it without mocking or judging others who may well think that you look ridiculous and are laughing into the sleeve of their beige cardigan.

So dressing your age, in my opinion means keeping your style but if you don't adapt it you will look like mutton dressed as lamb.

I have a friend in her 50's who is a slave to fashion, she is small and slim but is a laughing stock because she insists on wearing the fashion aimed at a far younger generation. And two goth friends also in their 50's dress a lot like you describe and to be truthful they look like fraggle rock in their efforts to keep up with their younger peers.

I love this comment, though tbh if you said it to me it would just make me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, Fraggle Rock was the greatest show ever .
Seriously though, I agree with the sentiment of your post. Makes a lot of sense.

Errata

Uggs do keep feet warm in the winter, but do check your tootsies regularly for footrot.

~Chameleon~

Dunroamin wrote: »

Well, seeing we've all gone into confessional mode, I'm going to own up to wearing Crocs quite a lot of the time. I did say comfort was my number one priority!

Now why doesn't that surprise me! Fits my image of you perfectly

~Chameleon~

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I just don't get Uggs, cannot see the attraction to them at all.....they look like slipper boots to me. That said, as someone else pointed out, what a dull world if we all liked the same things........

For warmth and comfort. But please don't confuse those dreadful fake things that a lot of teenage girls wear with "proper" UGG boots. Mine are 5yrs old now and still look good as new

lostinrates

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

For warmth and comfort. But please don't confuse those dreadful fake things that a lot of teenage girls wear with "proper" UGG boots. Mine are 5yrs old now and still look good as new

Weren't uggs fake celtics once? Someone who thought I might be interested once was trying to tell me about some IP rights and I blanked out.....

~Chameleon~

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I don't have the standard crocs (like these) as they don't stay on my feet but I do have some crocs trainers- very comfy and lightweight.

I bought some Croc sandals this summer and they're the most comfortable, lightweight things I've ever worn!

~Chameleon~

lostinrates wrote: »

Weren't uggs fake celtics once? Someone who thought I might be interested once was trying to tell me about some IP rights and I blanked out.....

I do seem to recall a lot of hoo-haa about the originality of the UGG brand many years ago but can't remember the detail. The are lots of other sheepskin brands that are equally as good but I was referring to the fake boots you can buy at the market for £10 a pair

Talking of celtic, my other favourite piece of footwear is a pair of sheepskin-lined wellingtons from Celtic Sheepskin which are perfect in wet, muddy conditions where UGGs would become ruined.

arbroath_lass

alleycat` wrote: »

It isn't intended in a mean way.

You should dress to flatter yourself not to try and pretend you are something you no longer are.

Why should we dress to "flatter ourselves", though. What do you think we are pretending to be?

Why can't we wear what we like? I'm a comfy dresser. I don't really care what others think I look like.

I prefer to be judged on my head and heart thank you very much. Which is how I look at others.