Anyone 50 plus out there? How do you dress?

[fedupandfifty]

Just wondering what you wear when in this age group? I tend to wear pretty much what I'd wear if I were 20 years younger. I don't work in an office any more, so don't have the problem of having to dress formally.

What do you lot all wear?

Thats interesting Milly my dp the same

Have just read this thread and like someone said above, I'm watching keenly.
I don't like getting old either. Don't like my wrinkles or my beginning-to-fall jaw line. At all at all.
Having said that, I wear pretty much what I've always worn, but it's more considered, sounds awful.
My (year older) friend, late 40s, mentioned 'age appropriate' the other day. I had violent feelings towards her. God I hate that term.

Hang-ups? Me??

I think you do have to come to terms with not being pretty any more. That isn't easy but it doesn't mean you can't look good or stylish. (In my opinion.)

Oh, and when you walk down the street, men don't look like they want to shag you. But really, who cares

The most tragic older women are usually those who haven't come to terms with losing the prettiness of their youth and make desperately sad attempts to retain it. Aging cosmetic surgery is rarely an improvement on (well-maintained) nature.

Yes, Bonsoir I agree with that.

I find it really eerie when the eyes look old,but the face doesn't.The disparity is too great for my brain to process.

Lurking with interest as just hit mid-forties. I'm busty so tend to stick to classic tailoring and fitted stuff and then bring it up a little with trendy shoes and accessories, plus I make sure my hair, nails, make up etc. are bang up to date. am often told I look ten years younger (or I did do until very recently). I think great hear and glowing skin are vital. I try to avoid looking like Carol Vorderman though, as attractive as she is, she just screams desperate.

Has anyone seen the soon-to-turn-sixty Christy Brinkley? She's astonishingly beautiful and amazingly well-preserved. I know she started off winning the genetic lottery but still, after a full career and several children, she looks incredible.

I find face exercises very good for lifting saggy faces. If you put enough effort in to exercise the face muscles adequately.

Christy looks good but up close has had an awful lot of face surgery. Hate it when women start to get the " cat" face look.

I'm probably the opposite of most you as I'm now dressing younger than I have for years but it is in line with the reassess what suits you idea.

I have always been overweight (very, very overweight in recent years) so have steadfastly avoided fashion for years and dressed in a very classic way. Friends have always said I dressed well but I know a lot of that was calculated to camouflage my size.

A combination of losing some weight (although I still have a lot to go) and Ann Harvey and Evans closing down locally has made me reappraise what I wear and try new things. I now have some leggings with long tunics, dresses with opaque tights, boots and things I would never have worn before

drNick I'm sure you're not unattractive. Plenty of older, very groovy women around. And you could have something"done"if that's the way to go?

Opaque tights, black long boots with tunic dresses, sometimes black trousers and patterned tops but not in black. I've been wearing purple a fair bit recently as it seems to suit my colouring now, though it used to look terrible.

Well I dress in a mix of classics such as dress and opaques/long flat boots for work, skinnies or leggings with cowl neck for home with dc (children late too), and a somewhat eclectic mix for out and about with dh, quite a lot of which my younger dh bought for me. I have a feeling he has overlooked my increasing years and is making up for my over conservative earlier years when money for frivolous clothes was not available.!! Also have black leather biker boots, and leather leggings too match- not usually together. I have become curvier with age (used to be almost straight up and down)- although some of this is due to poor health and reduced exercise ( another consequence of getting older - those autoimmune disorders tend to get some of us once the hormones are AWOL. I've lost my waist, gained a bust and several unwelcome bulges which I am still adapting to. I think I need a colour and style consultation too!

More biker boots !

You do know, that biker boots are a classic? They have been around since the dawn of, um motor bikes. They were not created by some twenty-something year old from Shoreditch.

Yes. But are a middle age cliche now. You could say gilt buttoned blazers are a classic. Are still not really in fashion atm

We're not discussing what's in fashion. We're talking about the pleasure of clothes.

If your teeth aren't straight, getting Damon braces can fill out your face and make you look more youthful. And a proper eyebrow consultation can give your face a lift too.

What do you lot all wear?

thats not about fashion?

Oh I wear a knitted bikini

It's about getting pleasure from looking as good as you can, despite no longer being young, pretty or fashion-forward. But I think you know that.
Anyway as no-one else seems to want to talk to you, maybe you could explain this eyebrow business to me? Being an old hippy, it has passed me by.

is that you asking nicely?

Where have I not been nice?

I'm 53 and my staple outfit is quality leggings or Top Shop Leigh black jeans, fitted tunic, knee high boots.
I always wear fitted things, not baggy.

I don't look my age, only when I look down into a mirror.
That is bloody scary.
I look after my skin, wish I was a bit more adventurous makeup wise.