Today I'm dressed like an old lady 😂

[GarlicEverywhere]

I hasten to clarify that I am an old lady! I'd love to claim "I don't know how this happened" - but I know exactly. I needed to go to The Outdoors but was hot and tired.

A weather-appropriate dress happened to be top of a nearby pile (yes, I need an actual wardrobe) and it is a very comfortable dress. Double muslin, basically a long, crinkled sack with an under-bust gather in place of any shaping. I'm not wearing a bra, which, at my age, only adds to the shapelessness.

As I looked so very drab, I felt I should add lively footwear. Trouble is, I needed said footwear to be flat and - yes, comfortable. The shoes best meeting my need were metallic gold, basket-weave loafers. And now I understand why old women so often wear shapeless dresses with incongruous footwear! Comfort imperative; too tired to style it but making a low-effort attempt at interest.

I probably need some better quality sacks 😳 and a pair of less flashy loafers.

Feel free to share your not-very-successful attempts at looking like you made an effort when you made none at all - or, alternatively, chortle quietly at my hapless discovery of my inner bag-lady.

Oh my word! My granny used to have a quarter of these every week. Wrapped individually like little gold bars. Sadly you can't buy them any longer.

And I'm gutted to learn I'm also older than Werther's Originals.

I am wearing a shapeless sack today and am still too hot. I've resorted to 'Jelly bras' which are not underwired and do nothing to hoick my 44D boobs up from dangling around my waist band but they ARE jolly comfy and that's what's most important now.

I am annoyed it is so hot. Previously I have spent the last 9 months or so in what my Nan would have called 'play clothes'. Basically elastic waisted leggings and an old t shirt.

I now only wear orthopaedic looking shoes that are fugly but comfortable. My 21 year old self who danced in high heels is shuddering at my footwear choices but I'm now too old to care.

This is the best thread ever and I truly laughed the whole way through.

Caught myself in a midi dress with socks and Birkenstocks and unshaved legs the other day 🤣 I just don't care any more 🤣

You are all people i think i could be friends with. Excellent work wimmin.

😂😂😂😂

I actually saw a woman out yesterday dressed in burgundy tracksuit bottoms, really thick fleece lined, a navy long sleeve top and those Ugg furry slippers. Slippers in the street. Well, on a bus. And she was very early 20s.

This is 100% me. It’s great isnt it! I’m truly happy about it. I used to wear stilletoes and pencil skirts when I was a slip of a thing and spend soo much money on hairdressers. That was fun too.
I do still wear lippie though. Funny that.. can’t go out without lippie, love it!

I have a superbly comfortable pair of trousers from Cotton Traders that are extremely unattractive and ageing, everyday is a struggle between style or just wearing the trousers. Id say the trousers win 50% of the time.

You sound like Jesse from The Fast Show.

"Today I am mostly dressed like an old lady."

I love colour but I wouldn’t go out bra less.

You read my mind with the last line..a rain mate my gran wore those in the 70s.