To wonder what will mark us out as old people?

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You know how you see old people out and about with stuff that is firmly of their era?
Examples:
Headscarves
Suits
Hankies
Stockings
Face powder
Etc

What do you think will mark us out when we're old? Or are the "rules" so relaxed now we'll just look like the young people but wrinkly?

Im thinking smartphones will have wildly changed but we'll still be doddering around with our galaxies
Straightened hair
Those of us who are smokers will truly stick out and young people will be like "omg! Look! An old woman with an actual cigarette!" a bit like how we feel when we see an old man smoking a pipe.

In nursing homes we'll be hanging around the day room in pjs aside from the fact we're in nursing homes giving away our age

infertilitybitch Perhaps we will be hanging in the day room wearing ... onesies! Oh, the thought!

@ScreamingValenta imagine a room full of elderly unicorns!

Ha ha! That's brilliant! I need to buy one of those now and mothball it for the next 30 years.

My Auntie is 74 this year. She's 5ft 9" and a size 10 and wears All Saints sweaters with leather leggings and chunky boots, and has a silvery pixie crop. I hope to God I look as good at 74.

Confusssed I wish I looked that good now

Stopbeingnosy, surely teaching swimming is a fantastic way to stay actively engaged with the Community, as well as the health benefits to her? I don't understand that analogy at all, tbh.

"If you are a smoker it’s ok you likely aren’t to live long enough to be an old woman anyway"

With the advances of Lung Cancer and Heart Treatments, that isn't the case anymore.

When BHS was shutting, I was having this conversation with my Sister, who was turning 60. There are a lot of shops disappearing because no-one is replacing their customers (and they aren't getting demand right). 60/70 year olds are shopping in the High Street, picking stuff up whilst shopping with their Children and Grandchildren.

Sadly, I'm often mistaken for her younger sister (I'm 48)

Today’s old people can be defined by lack to cosmetic enhancements.

Crooked / uneven, yellow teeth.
Wrinkles.

Whereas middle age women are “battling” it with creams, fillers and Botox. So I suspect not only will we be the oldies with the wrinkly tattoos, some of us will have bizarrely unwrinkled foreheads and look at bit clone-like, in that plasticky way. And we will stick with our bobs.

I think, unless you have very drastic cosmetic surgery, all the fillers, creams and botox in the world won't stop you being wrinkled in your 70s. You might be less wrinkled, but nature will take its course eventually.

True- Imagine Katie Price at 90, a petite little wrinkly bird of a thing with enormous silicone boobs

The music we like
Not smoking
Rarely visiting pubs

There was an article in the paper the other day that said they think they might have found a cure for male baldness (side effect of a drug for some thing else, like viagra).

So our generation could be the last one with bald older blokes.

I'm hoping for a video games room!

BalloonSlayer I read that too - it's an osteoporosis drug, so could kill two birds with one stone. I was disappointed that the BBC article I read made no mention of whether it would be effective against female hair loss.

Ah the tattooed eyebrows will slip down our saggy faces giving us a look of Grumpy Cat. I can't wait.

When we were young being old was a thing and "old people" looked alike, we couldn't discern the different styles and influences. Once we're there ourselves we come to realise that there's lots of variation. When you think of music in retirement/care homes, remember that a lot of folks there are depressed as those establishments don't represent them.

I used to wonder if I'd reach a stage in my life where I'd see a beige blouson jacket in the light of a wardrobe must-have. Now I'm in my 40s, I don't think I will - I still have the same fundamental style of dressing I liked in my 20s.

My younger pupils - year 9 and below- consider Facebook an old people's thing, that's when they even know what it is.

We can revive FriendsReunited as a pensioners' version of Facebook etc.

I also think we - as old people - will be seen as quaint with our texts / phone calls / emails/snapchats/WhatsApps. In 20-30 years, the younglings will be communicating in a new way that will feel slightly... uncomfortable to many of us.

Today, many older people call to keep in touch (some but not all email but few text/WhatsApp/snapchat.) probably just physically easier to talk on phone, I suspect. When I was little, they wrote letters (phone calls were for the younger generation).

I look forward to amazing youngsters by saying 'In my young day, we didn't have mobile phones or computers, and there were only three channels on the telly.' To be fair, I could probably amaze them now but I need to be an old lady to do it with the proper flair.

Gel nails.

Tbh I doubt we'll be in skinny jeans. They'll be way too much of a faff to get on once your joints etc age. Maybe onesies are the way to go

We’ll be the ones having senior moments trying to find the controls for the driverless cars while young people will shudder at the idea that any of us ever actually drove.

I’m a bit at pps in their sixties referring to themselves as old/ or as examples of how on trend they still are. I would have thought mid seventies was the youthful side of old age. Surely sixties are still middle aged??