To think my 42 year old husband should not wear converse trainers?

[GordontheGopher]

Well?

i have a pair of red leather Converse my mum bought me in Office a couple of years back and wear them all the time.

i'm 37. should i be wearing Footglove all the time?

yabu

Are you sure the boots you linked to aren't johdpur boots (can't farking spell the word - the boots you ride horses in).

I like these for dh

he's obviously got style and he and millions cant be wrong - you sound like your taste is older than you.

you should try them out they come in every colour and look great with jeans and skirts!

YABu and whoever said they were for American teenagers..???Im 45 and have pretty much always had a pair on the go, not about to stop now.

YABU

My dp wears them and hs 47

Food for thought though: When young, I thought when we hit 'granny' age, we'd all suddently revert to tight perms and flower-print dresses. Will we grow old wearing what we were comfortable wearing in our hay days? Bring it on if that's the case: I will be a granny happy in a pair of baggy jeans, dunlop sneakers etc. etc. I can't wait

I speak as a 36 year old, not a 16 year old!

i love Dunlops! they're comfy, too.

Expat, I've gone through pair after pair for too many years. I used to get them in the 'children's sports department' and paid bugger all, until they turned cool. Then I had to pay double to get them from Office etc. Now I have to get them from bizarre sites on-line as fashion has now dictated they're not all that any more!

Fashion is a weird, fickle beast

I take your point. I really do. I'm 40 so no spring chicken but regretfully accept that there are some items of appareil that it is inadvisable to wear, unless I want to look like a total and utter chump. Converse trainers at 42 - generally not cool

handlemecarefully [I'm now wailing], you're so wrong. If you're happy with what you're wearing, why should you be pressured? Who's bloody dictating what you should be wearing?

If DP came downstairs tomorrow in a leather thong and harness, I'd have to say something, but a pair of converse ffs.

• but concede I may be now pressuring you with my point of view, equally wrong

I'm never wrong

Well perhaps sometimes....

Wigparty, but then again, what is "granny age"

I, for example, became a granny at 35

And have worn converse all my life (although I leave the brightly coloured converse hi tops to dd2) what's wrong with all-black converse low tops? (apart from the price)

They remind me of the black plimmies I used to wear for PE at infant school in the 1960's

We all wear Converse in our family, from DD 3 through to DP 43. Looks fine. They are hardly innovative or high fashion.

Fantastic Cammelia!
'Granny age' was my young self's stereotyped age (about 60) at which we became grannies, donned a flowery frock and hot-footed it down to the hairdressers for a blue rinse and set

Your husband is 42, he can wear what he damn chooses

YABVU to try and dictate what your partner wears

Zombie thread

ZOMBIE
Her husband will now be in his 50s.
My dad is in his 70s and wears converse.