Middle aged women (aka you lot) please desist form following crimes against fashion

[moondog]

1. Dying your hair a matte brown or black. So ageing and unattractive especially when also sporting bed flattened crown at which white roots are visible.

1. Long skirt, jaunty jerkin and medium helled boot ensemble (this particular species' natural habitat is M&S).

1. Not getting your teeth scaled and polished on a regular basis.

1. Wearing too many gold rings at once.

Oh and please stop dragging your sheepish looking dhs with you around the lingerie dept. Haven't they got shelves ot put up or lawns to mow?

Purplepeony - thanks for the tip, but can you suggest a colour that isn't blondey-brown?

If I went shopping for a top I'd have to avoid all mid to light browns, beiges and tans as they make me look dead. When I had ash blondey-brown Audrey Roberts hair it looked like a wig as it was so different to my natural colouring.

My colouring is a lot like:

this pic

Yep she looks a bit younger than me (though there's a dusting of badgery snow about her hairline, ha ha) but I'm not wrinkly.

My complexion isn't 'warmed up' by warm beigy colours - had my colours done and I'm a 'winter' which only suits cool shades and dramatic contrasts. Like badger stripes Oh I dunno... being a fashion criminal's the life for me I guess.

no i do.
i find it rather pathetic

cider- I'd say you might look good with a more auburny-reddy-coppery shade if it is done carefully. You can get a good effect with 3 colours- maybe ask the HD?

It will also depend on the style of your hair- if it is poker straight with an obvious parting, then the roots will show easily- it is it more mussed-up with layers you might get away with fewer touch-ups!

I can't see the point in men shopping with their partners at all. Full stop. Can women not make up their own minds over what suits them? Do they need approval to purchase a bra?

I'd rather be hung, drawn and quartered than take my DH anywhere near a clothes shop with me.

Men shopping on their own buying me silk nighties, diamonds etc is fine of course.

And whilst we are middle aged grumps- I can't stand young girls dithering over the choice of their tampons with some spotty feckless youth in tow- as if to say "I am a woman, I need tampons and pads, hover whilst I choose."

Have you never seen them?

Women should take their DH/DP with them more often to give honest opinions and help them avoid the more heinous fashion crimes. Not all the time of course but some of the time at least.

Same the other way round of course.

Are you all seriously saying that a 36 year old ex goth should NOT be dying her hair black??

What the hell else could I do? It's either that or burgundy which is so bloody hard to maintain.

tbh it's red black right now. Is that acceptable??

I don't have grey roots, more mousey (the curse of goth)

I think I will be in my coffin before I let them do the bloody middle aged honey-toned cocktail on me. If anything to me that screams 'understated, elegant and NERVOUS ABOUT BEING OLD'

im not going to do the honey toned route, it would look shite on me

i'm still a dark haired girl with grey hair underneath

Purplepeony - hmm still not convinced, sorry. Even permanent hair dye fades on my copious grey, leaving an orange or pink rinse effect. Which is kind of okay if you're suitably wacky (or have the right kind of statement glasses ). But I end up looking like a Spanish pensioner.

Though I quite like this colour

Sadly don't think I could pull this one off

Black or very dark brown are the only hair dyes that fade to something approximating a natural shade.

On another subject, where are all these men hanging around in underwear shops? I've never noticed any except in Father Ted. I must be very unobservant.

Cider, the lilac blue has got to be the most flattering for the 'middle aged' skintone don't you think??

I am dead tempted, it has a certain goth something too...

Goth - yep the lilac does it for me skin-tone wise! Also reminds me of the 'when I'm an old woman I shall wear purple' poem.

I already wear loads of purple, and have had purple hair in past.It's the way to go for middle age- rather than fading into the background, give up and look insane!!

I'm with CiderIUp and Custardo here - very dark hair and pale skin. I'm about 20% grey and get a semi-permanent root tint done professionally once a month in - shock horror! dark brown. After just a couple of washes it fades to my "natural" colour.

I loathe and despise the caramel-coloured stripes that so many women with my colouring get talked into once they're over 45. It looks so obvious and isn't flattering unless you have olive/tanned skin. And it's incredibly expensive to maintain.

Red/copper/auburn tints looks crap with my skin - I'm a "winter" too, and get my foundation custom-blended by Prescriptives (blue/red according to their spectrum) because I'm too pale to buy it over the counter.

I wear a lot of purple/lilac/ too!

i hate dyed hair really. I want my hair to look BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN < waynetta emoticon>
has that is the colour the lord gave me and suits my sensational appearance.

I dont want stripes or black under bits or red hair - yuk , that is for hte commoners.

My god I have got to 44 years old and I don't understand most of this. Thank Christ Dh loves me anyway!

Also when I was 5 stone lighter I looked 20 years older. I looked at photos of myself and thought I was my mother.

Nowadays I look fat but I think I probably look my age or a bit older.

i wear lots of purple, but lilac does nothing for me

Juan - the lord gave me brown hair too, but then he took it away. You gotta watch him.