following on from the old and fat thread... (forgive me if there's been one already, I've had a look and can't find one) -
how the fuck do I dress now that I'm nearly 50? I'm currently a size 8-10 and really quite fit, the fittest I've ever been, through a combination of weight training, swimming, pilates and ashtanga yoga. But I've been fat in the past, so I have quite a bit of saggy skin lying around, and zero tits (scrotal is the word). I'm like an ironing board, no curves.
I love fashion and clothes but am going off fast fashion because of the unsustainability, plus cheap clothes look increasingly shit to me. And on me. In theory I'd like a capsule wardrobe with timeless, quality pieces that will last me forever and which I will add to judiciously and within my own select colour palette. But in practice I wear tons of different things - sometimes jeans, sometimes dresses (of which some are long and lineny which I wear with boho/old hippy accessories and birkies, and some are fitted and tailored). I love sludgy colours, and tweed, and rough wool, and I knit a lot. But I also love bright colours and patterns, checks and florals.
I'm in a right old muddle. I don't have a ton of money to spend but I seem to have loads of clothes already (I counted more than 70 dresses in my wardrobe, of which I probably wear about 10, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them).
Not sure where I'm going with this... just wondered how other oldies like me who are interested in clothes choose what to buy and what to wear.
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DaisyBD · 07/09/2016 16:34
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