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Mutton dressed as lamb

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whatisforteamum · 06/08/2025 12:17

I overheard my colleagues talking about this the other day.
Saying how a certain hair colour was mutton dressed as lamb.
I have a small amount of this and I love it and do it for myself thank you.
Apart from really high heels on mature ladies or mini skirts I think anything goes tbh.
What do you think looks like mutton dressed as lamb?

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HippyChickMama · 06/08/2025 18:07

I’m 46 and wear what I want. I don’t wear heels because they are implements of torture and live in Vans or Converse with dungarees or skinny jeans (don’t give a toss whether they’re fashionable or not) and band t shirts. And I’m fat. My body, my clothes, my business. Couldn’t give a crap what anyone else is wearing either, there’s no age limit on clothes

HippyChickMama · 06/08/2025 18:09

Oh, and leftover lamb, Rick Stein’s lamb tagine recipe is very nice, would work equally as well with mutton if slow cooked

Mewling · 06/08/2025 18:16

Not a nasty person but asked a nasty, ageist question. Have a word with yourself OP.

childofthe607080s · 06/08/2025 18:20

Kingsleadhat · 06/08/2025 17:50

What a load of ageist crap. I'm wondering, as I'm 67 and wear whatever I want, what the vegan equivalent insult would be?

12 year old whiskey dressed as young wine? ( would help if I could remember the name of the French wine often done young!)

a prune dressed as a plum?

MaggieBsBoat · 06/08/2025 18:25

I remember being 26 and my then DH telling me that I was too old to wear my hair in a plait, like what did I think I look like. That I should rethink it. Chortle.
At that very moment I realised two things, like an epiphany

  1. my DH is an arsehole
  2. society has no business telling a woman what she should wear. Ever.
MrsLizzieDarcy · 06/08/2025 18:25

I had a client at work the other day, and she'd had a purple toner added to her lovely silver grey hair. It looked amazing, I told her so and she said "not bad is it for 82". I've never have guessed her age - she had a pair of cropped jeans on, espadrille sandals and a white stuff tunic top. She looked so stylish.

Kingsleadhat · 06/08/2025 18:27

childofthe607080s · 06/08/2025 18:20

12 year old whiskey dressed as young wine? ( would help if I could remember the name of the French wine often done young!)

a prune dressed as a plum?

I love prune dressed as plum 😆

Clotheshorseys · 06/08/2025 18:28

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SomeOfTheTrouble · 06/08/2025 18:31

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How lovely to be so ageist and misogynistic.

Radiowaawaa · 06/08/2025 18:32

whatisforteamum · 06/08/2025 13:27

Apologies as I'm really not a nasty person and I don't gossip either as I believe those that do it are insecure and attempting to make themselves feel better.

Considering a load of dickheads have decided to join you in bringing down women, maybe you should ask for the thread to be deleted?

Or are you not that sorry?

GonnaeNoDaeThatJustGonnaeNo · 06/08/2025 18:39

Sexist ageist shite

PoxyAndIKnowIt · 06/08/2025 18:40

OP ”Hey let’s be ageist and sexist and insulting about older women!”

How about no?

Milliejacksonhouseforsale · 06/08/2025 18:51

SomeOfTheTrouble · 06/08/2025 18:31

How lovely to be so ageist and misogynistic.

And to use the words it looked like 🤮

StMarie4me · 06/08/2025 18:55

It’s misogynistic, ageist and rude.

Please do better OP.

I’m a 62 year old professional woman with dyed hair, and undercut and live in band TShirts.

StMarie4me · 06/08/2025 18:56

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JFC.

Someone2025 · 06/08/2025 21:50

Hatty65 · 06/08/2025 17:25

Hmm. I'm just about 60 and I'm wearing a Scooby Doo t shirt today. Does that count?

It's not a nice thing for people to say.

It's not a nice thing for people to say

A reality of life is that people do say it though

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