Petite and look too young for age

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I am in my early thirties, petite and often people think that I am very young. It does tend to affect my dd more than me and at school she is often told by other children that "your mum really looks young".

Almost everywhere I go, I am bound to hear the question whether my daughter is mine.

I have medium hair and I normally wear a bob.

I would like to invest in a new wardrobe with a more mature casual look for a petite and looking for some recommendations and advice.

Shoes

Dresses

Jeans

Tops

Could you maybe pop up a photo or two? Would make it much easier ot pinpoint what's aging you down too much.

Its just casual outfits.

to give you an overview of what I mostly wear;......skinny jeans, flared jeans, straight navy trousers , orange linen cropped trousers knee length ( loose fitting), pencil navy denim skirt below knee, straight linen trousers.

Most of the times I wear plain leather brown pumps shoes with a buckle.

I also think my younger looks come mostly from the face/ head part. I have medium length hair with volume and do wear a bob.

yy, I suspect it's hair, hair colour and make up that are causing it. Maybe shoes and bag. Might a shorter, darker style work on your face shape and colouring.

Mango is worth a look. Zara. Top Shop. Vero Moda maybe. Specific petite ranges tend to be really rather frumpy (sweeping generalisation) which could easily make you look like a very young person trying to look older IYSWIM.

I found some links with a model with similar features, hairstyle, body shape and the small face

www.zara.com/uk/en/sale/woman/stock-clearance/top-with-asymmetric-hem-c441020p1217537.html

www.zara.com/uk/en/sale/woman/stock-clearance/top-with-asymmetric-hem-c441020p1217537.html

I think wearing fitted clothes makes a petite frame more womanly, 'skimming' clothes or baggier ones tend to hide any curves and make a petite body look younger and more girl like imo. Likewise if you can get away with it I'd say shorter length (just over knee?) skirts can flatter a petite person more.

lol at WildthongsHeartString! I am usually sympathetic to a wide number of problems but I'm having to dig deep here.

Who cares if people think you look young?! You just tell them, I was xx when I had my dd actually.

Enjoy it while you can and wear whatever you want. I spent my 20s and most of my 30s looking a good 5+ years younger than I really was but now it's all caught up and I really do look my age. Older sometimes if I've not had much sleep and the dses are playing me up.

Re your DD - my mum was about 10 years older than everyone else's and I used to get the comment that she looked really old (she didn't). It's just a comment that gets made, I'm sure it's not meant negatively.

Revel in the fact that you're not being mistaken for your DD's granny and wear what the hell you like, is my advice...

Sorry, that should have read 'fat granny'

OP I can sympathise as people used to think I was a teenage mum and say nasty things behind my back and tut in a loud voice to my face. I was 27 at the time.
Now many years later having my dd later in life, when she started school 5 years ago, her teacher asked if her gran/nan had brought her.
Make the most of it, is my advice.

I think you might need flamingosboutique.com/image/cache/data/Shoes/glitzy_rainbow_diamond-silver_shoes-500x500.jpg, but size down so that you've really got something to complain about ...

Once the kids I taught would do the maths and tell me I must be at least 21.

3 years later, after having 2 more kids a student said I'm probably not older than 42.

I did have a horrible bob haircut and im quite small also but I think I'll always just look a bit younger than I am. It's a good problem to have but I know sometimes it feels like people are judging you.

Are your clothes fashionable? Sometimes people look younger because it looks like they aren't old enough to have developed their own style iykwim.

Same story as Harriet Schulenburg here! so I also second just enjoying it. I looked really young all of my twenties and most of my thirties. I got used to the gasp of disbelief when I revealed my true age. I was small and slim and had long hair in a pony tail and I was very sporty and lived in trainers.

As stupidflanders said, I think I only found my own style after birth of my first child. Suddenly I wasn't working in an office, I needed to buy new stuff and not office stuff. So I bought things I liked, not things that would work dual purpose home and for the office!

I think I look far closer to my age than I used to. Recently I jokily said to the hair dresser that I thought 42 was too old for a pony tail and to give me a hair style. He just complied without a murmur, never mind a gasp. I have to admit I was a little put out. After getting used to the gasp!

I am not into fashion and avoid wearing anything high except for work. I wear the same shoes and a few of the same clothes. I have tried hard to look mature but the more I do this, the more comments I get that I look young. I suppose I have to take this as a complement and live with it.