Age limit on hair bows?

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Is there an age where they cease to be acceptable? (or normal .....?)

Also hair flowers!

I'm sure there's a tasteful way to wear them, and you're not wearing exactly the same hair accessories, and in the same style, a child would wear. Then, no age limit I think.

No idea about flowers in hair (unless you mean hair flower garlands for festivals). I haven't seen anybody, young or old, wearing one lately.

Yes 7. I think adults with bows in their hair is just weird. They just look childish.

I think part of it is that I haven't changed from thinking of myself as young to thinking of myself as old.

Debating a big red festive ribbon today ..... won't be able to see it from the front!

If YOU feel good in them, then wear them. Who gives a shiny shit what anyone else thinks?

Depends on the person to my mind. Some people look lovely. Some people look like the proverbial mutton.

As far as hair ribbons went. Dd1 and dd2 liked to standardly wear hair ribbons at infant level. During juniors they will wear hair ribbons for special occasions or dressing up.
Secondary, dd1 wears a red flower in her hair when auditioning usually. So she looks a little different. She won't usually wear anything.

Bunches are fine at infant level. Dd2 gets away with them at junior level because her hair is short and won't go easily into one without falling out at the front. (bunches to me are two pony tails, pigtails are two plaits)

However I can't get dd1 (now year 8) away from wearing her hair in two pigtails. I can't imagine that she doesn't get comments at school-she's not the sort of person that can carry a "quirky" fashion off. But she won't change. It is the most practical hairstyle for hair you can sit on, but one plait rather than two at her age. But she's stubborn and never been a follower-comfort is the big thing, not the overall effect.

I wear them.

Fuck anyone else.

What are these stupid rules.

And honestly, why do we still conform or look to do so?

worrying

op do as you like.

feminine I think your my new girl crush!

I wear bows, flowers (in a rockabilly type way) and sometimes have my hair in (low) bunches. I look COOL (I'm 33).

I wear bows, flowers and all sorts of weird shit on my head but then I do the whole goth rockabilly thing and have blue hair so I already look relatively outlandish (although I have bunches up in my late twenties). I'm thirty nine. :)

Urgh. GAVE bunches up. GAVE.

I would not look cool with bows or flowers anymore. I have turned slightly mumsy with practical clothes rather than patchwork dresses and silver fishnets that demanded suitable hair accessories that I used to wear in my late teens.
I am 39 with long hair. Either a ponytail or messy bun for me.
But if you have style that suits it then go for it.

I wish I wasn't mumsy

Obviously people should dress how they like, that was never in question. And if you don't care what people think, then that's great and I admire you. But if you do care, then it's worth knowing that most people think that grown women wearing little girl hair accessories look ludicrous.

As a woman in her mid thirties who is happy to look a prize womble if I like what I am wearing I would say therein lies the choice.
It's about how you feel in your choice of attire and how comfortable you are with the thought that others may scoff. If you aspire to be conventionally attractive then there is good chance that ostentatious hair accessories on an adult female will not help you achieve that. If you aspire to wear what you find aesthetically pleasing and fuck the world and their opinions of that then pile as much crap on your cranium as you damn well please. God knows I do.
I'm not a good looking woman, never have been and now that gravity and hormones are vandalising my face and body I am even less conventionally appealing than ever. So I choose to look like a cross between Grayson Perry and Barbara Cartland and be ostentatiously bogging on my own terms. I positively enjoy watching people work out whether or not I know I look a dog's dinner and whether or not I care.
Wear what you enjoy and own your choices is the crux of it whether you are nine or ninety nine I say.

hair bows any age why not but bunches nooooooo upper age 10!

Smarties, I think I love you.

Ah thanks Mme Guillotine. It has not escaped my notice that you appear to be cool as fuck.
Let's hear it for the people with lots of shit on their heads and a devil may care attitude to that fact.

I still wear them, I'm 29. Wear what you want. As long as you feel good who gives a tiny rats ass about what other people think

Clearly the OP cares, or she wouldn't have asked!

Another vote for Smarties for Queen of the World!

I am 37. When I wear my hair in a messy bun, I sometime put my two smallish, pale gold flower clips on either side of said bun. That is when I can find them, if DSD(10) hasn't spirited them away to her room. Maybe I should take that as an indicator that I shouldn't be wearing them....gah, what-fucking-ever, it's my head and I'll put whatever I want on it!

Of course the OP cares and that's fair enough. I don't think any of the people who plough their own style furrow are judging her for doing so or saying that it makes you a better person that you're comparatively unfettered by ideas of what constitutes conventional attractiveness.
I think what people are saying in answer to her question is that her comfort in how she looks and how at peace or otherwise she is with the opinions of others are the crux of what she chooses to wear rather than the fairly moot point of age appropriateness.
I don't judge people for wanting to conform to any style whether it's barking mad individuality or fifty shades or beige. But we all know other people speculate on personality type based on attire. So your style choices are to some extent based on how much that reading of you based on outward appearance is something you care about.
I think that's the nub of it really, not that anyone is saying she ought not to be bothered, more that you choose based on how bothered you are.

Bows, anywhere, should be illegal.

There are no rules. Hairbands on short hair look super cool, functional on long hair. Flowers simply feminise - they don't have to make you look like a child. There are so many styles and images women can choose from - I think it's more about whether they suit you, rather than at what age you should stop. Both me and DD look awful with hair accessories - big heads innit.

Who was it said?:

'Bow in hair, not all there.'

(Of grown up women, that is)