I really like these - am I delusional about their suitability for a woman in her forties?

[StellaDallas]

Have always been a big DM fan but thought my wacky days were behind me until I saw these
Should I or shouldn't I? (Bearing in mind the other option is a sensible pair of knee length black boots.)

Think twice, Stella.

Looks like Jo Brand at the Oscars.

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No. No.

bit clumpy, some really nice lace up boots coming though this autumn that are not so clunky

not fun or nice

Your kids will really really hate them. Oh God, I used to have a red pair(home painted with gloss... very creative). T'was back in the 1980s though. I must have looked like noddy.

Your kids will really really hate them. Oh God, I used to have a red pair(home painted with gloss... very creative). T'was back in the 1980s though. I must have looked like noddy.

I had tie dye laces in mine

I had dm boots when I was a stoodent. Loved them. My legs were like spaghetti, loved the clumpiness of them, etc. Am now in my 40s, like you, saw they were staging a comeback and thought about getting a pair for..... about a giga second.

We are too old for all that mullarkey now. We are not Agnys whatshername. We deserve something s bit groovier....

(get not too sensible knee length boots instead. Or something like this)

gold kickers cod? how on earth can that be any better than gold dms?! link please!

they are nice. if you are planning to wear them under trousers.

with a skirt...

buthey, wouldn't it be boring if everyone wore the same

What about these then? I've been lusting after them for ages but could be that my taste in boots is about as bad as my taste in men! store.drmartens.co.uk/p-3411-darcie.aspx

No don't like the gold dms.

I did see the gold kickers and thought about them for my dd but actually they are not nice either.

am misty-eyed about my lovingly hand-pained DMs back in the day

BUT

no, I don't think so. Sensible - or rather chic - knee-highs are where it is at for us nowadays.

Although Grazia is touting thigh-highs - WTF?!

hand-painted even

Oh I really wanted to say " yes! wear what you like!"
but I have to say:

NOOOOOOO!!!!!
sorry

So, er, that would be a no then? (Droops head in shame.)
What about these then?
Goddammit can't a girl have any fun in her life?

I'd like to wear them too (remiscent of my student days) but since I am 40 I won't!

Doc Martens - generally - aged upper thirties plus; not good idea imo. Life isn't fair....

the kids ones are really cute though...

DH has just fulfilled a teenage fantasy by buying a pair of cherry 18-holers. I think they look OK as he no longer wears them with short drainpipes and you can't see how long they are under trousers. But he has blisters the size of a 50p piece.

The second option is better than the first but unless you're a Helena Bonham-Carter wacky Bohemian type I would still say no.

nooooooo