to feel that a woman in her 30s who chooses to wear large silk flowers in her hair on a daily basis, entirely without irony

[OrmIrian]

is asking to be thought a loon.

They match the colour of her shoes. Which somehow makes it worse.

No I suspect it is a little girl thingy riven. She also wears cute little animal brooches on her jacket and patterned tights. it ain't eccentricity tis too engineered.

It might look odd, but that doesn't make it wrong!

hm, I don't think eccentricity is by definition an unconscious act.

Gawd how refreshing. We could do with some flower-wearing gaiety at my schoolgates.

No not wrong. Of course. May I secretly sneer just a tad? Please? I have always had an allergy to the ickle girly look in adults women

daisy-chains in my hair maybe?

Its like that fabulous poem by whatherface, about growing old disgracefully, and wearing purple hats....

I hate that bloody poem.

jenny jones lol. my heroine.

oh I do madame. Its comes from not caring, doing what suits you at the time without regard to others opinions. Fashion cannot be by it's very definition eccentric.

Me too.

But I like the flowers in my hair

Warning
by Jenny Joseph

WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

i shall wear red. with a purple hat.
nowt about silk flowers...

i like to be different.

Yes, but there is thought involved, Orm!

i intend to keep a young man in a shed for odd jobs too.

Exactly madwoman!

Please may I reiterate, this woman is not eccentric. She is trying to project a certain image of herself as a cute little girl. I just happen to find that particular image loathsome. Sorry.

Apologies, Thunderduck, but it does address the OP!

I shall be the woman in that poem only with more dogs.

Ormirian just out of pure nosiness what kind of clothes do you wear/ think are acceptable you would hate my flower corsages polka dot and flower bags etc and im well into my 40s

LOL.No need to apologise. It just annoys me, that's all.

I think this is beginning to be AIBU by stealth. Sorry. I am revealing my own prejudices. Excuse me whilst I tuck them away again.

Does she also wear winnie the pooh earrings and "Tattered Friends" T-Shirts? Because if she does you are actually obliged to sneer.

ah, dogs, yes. cats? no. unless you intend to walk them on a lead.