Still true 200 years later, bani. Everyone wants to look like X [fill in your style dream] but most never will.
Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley (not of this parish anymore, but her mum is an acquaintance, and she pitches up in the area a couple of times a year) clearly gives her mum some clothes, because she had on awesomely chic dungarees yesterday. Mum also wears clothes well, and is still in decent shape as you'd expect from a former fitness instructor.
I do sometimes wonder, when I read in the newspaper (this morning's Times to be specific) that brands are ever more receptive to a more diverse range of models, why they don't ask today's model faces what their mums are doing. Genetics alone suggest that a super model's mum is likely to chime better with our age group than a willowy 18 year old who hasn't yet given birth, much less completed menopause. MaHW is about 60 and clearly hasn't had surgery as she has all the wrinkles you'd expect; she's handsome rather than pretty now, but she would still photograph well.