Can you dress too young for your age?

[Elliebobhobnob]

Can you dress too young for your age, and if so how would you define dressing too young?

It could be a man or woman.

I'm interested to know how someone would describe a person dressing too young.

I was also a goth and seeing the mini goths around has got me back into it! The young people seem to wear things once or not at all then put it on Vinted so I'm very happily picking up some nice bits. My inner 15yo is ecstatic.

I don't think anyone can dress young, it's just clothes innit.

chuck in a nice pair of boots and bootcut jeans and you have the invisible older women look or the look people who think they're dressing well have. It's so very dated. It's the equivalent of a twinset and pearls.

I think I'll stick to my floral mini skirts, my girly dresses,hoodies and trainers, and have fun with my clothes. Next, we'll be told we have to wear nice tailored chino knee-length shorts as short denim shorts are only for the young too.

As PPs have said I'm surprised that jean, trainers and hoodies are considered to be for younger people - surely they are are just part of everyday wear for any age.

Talking of hoodies - my DGD(15) was looking lovely in a very snug top with about 1/2" of midriff on show, voluminous baggy jeans but then goes and spoils it all with a huge baggy grey hoodie on top - honestly the youth of today!

Older women look a lot better when they stick to tailored items - shirts not puffy blouses. Plain fabrics or stripes not flowery. Smart jackets /coats not anoraks

I have to disagree with this. I'm 70 and tailored clothing, shirts and plain fabrics are a thing of the past for me - who wants to dress as though for a day at the office.

I don't dress like my granddaughter but perish the thought that I ever succumb to tailored trews and a sensible blazer!

I don't think so. Wear whatever you want. I would never think I was "too old" for a certain item of clothing. I don't care what others think either.

I wouldn't wear tight short dresses/hotpants and things like that but that's because I'm fat and wouldn't feel comfortable in them personally. I still wear things like doc martens, dungarees, joggers and hoodies around the house and won't stop wearing them.

I can’t wait to overdress and wear glamourous, crazy, out of the box outfits in my old age. I think older women who do this look fantastic. And why the hell not!

Yes you can. A grown up woman dressed as a little girl, I would consider "too young for her age"

Recently, I saw my mother who is 81 wearing a mini mouse pink T-Shirt that she had inherited from my 13 year old niece. Yes, it was the right size but it looked ridiculous. I insisted she wore something different before we left the house

Some styles are better left to the young - crop tops, very tight skirts or skin colour cheeky leggings, but a lot of that stuff doesn't look great on young people either unless they have a toned body.

Other than that no, any age can wear anything. Older people tend to be overweight and that's the issue with certain clothes rather than age.

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None of the things you wear have an age boundary. They are all very generic. It's like saying you wear socks.

Everything you have listed are just generic clothing. Not age related. T-shirts ffs.

Yes we've all heard it and most of us have moved forward and see it as misogynistic and frankly ageist and rude.

I'm more concerned about people using dated insults than those wearing their choice of clothing

We obviously haven’t all heard it, or at least we haven’t all understood what it means. I’ve seen a request for an explanation on here. I think it was from the OP, but can’t be bothered scrolling back to look.

Interesting that just mentioning the fact that such a saying exists is enough to get insults thrown at you on this thread- I’ve been called a dinosaur 🦕 by one self-righteous poster 🤣🤣

of course the idea of insulting a woman by saying such a thing to her is appalling 🙄

Just quoting this because it says it all. Great post!

If I was your mum I’d have told you to fuck off. Who are you to ‘insist’ that a grown woman wear something different?

Unless this is a joke and I’ve misread the tone.

I totally agree, it will be a cold day in hell before I wear anything like that outside of a job interview

So "wear what you want" but I'll only compliment those that stand out? As in your clothes do matter then?

Mutton dressed as lamb works for both sexes. It's just men don't have the same repertoire of clothing options. My DH (64) found his denim jacket the other day. DH dresses very well and has a style but now being bald, the jacket didn't "say" what it used to. DD snaffled it.

To me being an older women means wearing what you want. I'm not sure the youth really do embrace that. Young fashion tends to be more prescriptive even if the current trend is all Vinted stuff.

See I'd have thought she was a legend. As much as I wouldn't wear a juicy couture tracksuit myself, there's something great about an older woman being so comfortable with who she is and not giving a fuck about norms

That's such a shame. Your mum is 81, she's earned the right to wear whatever she likes.

Yasssssss! Here, here! 👏👏👏

I insisted she wore something different before we left the house
If a man posted this about his wife he'd rightly be called abusive.

I wear loads of the things on this thread that people think I shouldn’t because I’m 38 😂. I wear mini dresses and skirts, cropped tops, shorts, baggy cargos even with a studded belt that I had in the 2000s. I wear Converse and Vans with white sports socks. I’ve even been known to leave the house in my Nike Pros if it’s hot! The only thing I wouldn’t wear off this thread is thigh high boots but that’s not dressing young, surely no one under 50 would wear such a thing?

Teenage/ young people’s fashion these days is very much what was in fashion in the early 2000s, so really they’ve stolen my style, I haven’t stolen theirs! Why should I stop wearing what I like just because young people are wearing it?

I’m a size 6 with a 6 pack, muscley legs with no cellulite, large non-saggy boobs and a decent round bum so I don’t think I look terrible but even if I didn’t surely I should be allowed to wear what I like??

I know a 70 year old lady who wears skin tight (spme times faux leather) jeans, oversized jumpers, push up bras. Heals. Loads of eye make up and bronzer.

It suits her and she does always look good.

She always over dresses though. Eg we'll go to the local pub for Sunday dinner and she'll wear a little black dress with heals.

She doesn't see herself as "old" she always refer to other people her age (or younger) as "older people" ha

I'm another one who's nearly 40 and worried I dress too young.
I've given away a lot of my slogan tees but am not ready to dress like an older woman. It's a tricky age to dress I think.