What does dress your age really mean????

System

OrkneyStar wrote: »

On another note, how do people feel about hair colour?
I am 38 (just lol) and have brown with a teeny bit of grey, and feel like it is now or never for some more bold colour. Currently am brown with a hint of purple, short but growing it out, and would love to do something a bit bolder...........mutton as lamb?

Ahh i'm 27 this year and my mum asked me if i'm going to start dying my hair "normal" colours when i hit 30 (its currently pink and orange). I told her i'd consider bright red as a compromise but can't see me going back to being blonde or brown (though i might tone it down a bit ). Just wouldn't feel like "me"

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

paulineb wrote: »

Colouring my hair at home would be fine if it didnt turn out orange. I have dark blonde hair and I was very fair haired until I was in my mid teens but the one and only time I tried to lighten my hair at home it went orange and it took a year and two lots of highlights to make it look ok again.

I think its easier to go darker than blonde at home although some fair haired people will manage to find a home dye that suits them but its just not for me

I live in the back of beyond anyway and I cant get highlights and lowlights and a cut and blow dry for less than £35

You needed 40 vol peroxide and blue bleach. Plus a toner shampoo. Yours for under £12.

Rom_london

It means... Im a boring old so and so....

Grant Morrison the brilliant uk-native writer used to dress up like a woman and hit the town when he was 22.

Your style of dress is a direct corollary of the geographical location you were born... Which was all a bit of a accident of history anyway wasn't it.

And at the end of the day most people don't respect the diverse possibilities for clothing, and take the modest and obvious selection.

Good luck out there! at 22 many people start finding the world a bit too scary and they become that which they vowed to never be - their parents!

Tiddlywinks

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

What about the phrase 'you can't always judge a book by its cover'? A guy came into the shop where I work today, with tattoos all over his head and down his face, he actually seemed a really lovely guy with his wife and baby. I didn't judge him, to do so would have been so narrow minded. Later on an old woman came in who was quite snappy and abrupt. Just goes to show, you shouldn't judge....

Whether we believe it is right or not does not change the fact that most people do make judgements based on appearance.

Calling it "narrow minded" doesn't change anything... It's part of being human... we size each other up.

Gloomendoom

Rom_london wrote: »

Your style of dress is a direct corollary of the geographical location you were born...

Really?

I must be the exception that proves the rule as my style of dress does not include a flat cap or clogs.

neverdespairgirl

poet123 wrote: »

You can get footglove heels, I wear them for work.

I have a pair, too, with heels. I wear them if I have to do a lot of walking - so I always wear them to the Immigration Tribunal at Feltham, because it's a mile or so from the station.

I've had them ages, polish them regularly, and they were a great value buy, as they still look very good.

ailuro2

Not read all the thread, but wanted to mention the "Madonna Granny" lady who picks up her grandkids at my daughter's school. My daughter said when we passed her in the car that "that lady is Madonna Granny" - it was a woman who looked like Madonna at her Desperatrely Seeking Susan stage, but only from behind, she is definitely well into Shreddie knitting age when you see her from the front. I'm not trying to be cruel here, but when primary school kids are using that moniker for you then maybe you need to wear a little less animal print and a few less fake eyelashes. I have a general rule - if I wore it when it was fashionable the first time round, then I don't wear it when it returns.

aliasojo

Rom_london wrote: »

Your style of dress is a direct corollary of the geographical location you were born...

Actually I agree with this. When I moved from Edinburgh to the Highlands years ago (many years ago), I stuck out like a sore thumb.

I wore 'fashion' clothes then as did everyone I knew in Edinburgh and the quiet towns in the Highlands hadn't caught up at that time so I was dressed differently to everyone else. The norm wasn't fashion, it was comfort so jeans and trainers/boots were the standard dress.

I remember having a double belt for instance (a thin leather belt that wrapped round you twice with one part draping - anyone remember them?) and it was the talk of the town. :rotfl:

Then as more incomers arrived from Edinburgh and Glasgow mainly (for work on the rigs etc) the towns expanded, new shops opened and the Highlands no longer seemed to be at the back of the queue for new ideas arriving and now there is no difference between the mains towns there and anywhere else.

~Chameleon~

poet123 wrote: »

You can get footglove heels, I wear them for work.

And here was me thinking they were something akin to vibrams :rotfl: :rotfl:

paulineb_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

You needed 40 vol peroxide and blue bleach. Plus a toner shampoo. Yours for under £12.

Still wouldnt risk it and the reason I get lowlights these days is because my hair takes colour really well and over the years its got lighter and lighter to the point where my hair was almost white when I was getting highlights

For the people who can colour hair on their own successfully, all power to you, mine is definitely better done in the hands of professionals.