<p>Is the idea of someone dressing their age completely out to lunch these days? My daughter (9) spotted a mother at school who was wearing a top showing her belly with extremely short shorts. She asked me why someone her age (44) would dress that way. I told her basically “different strokes”, but I do think there’s something to dressing one’s age. I’m 50 and a size 2, so technically I guess I could dress like that, but I wouldn’t want to. Is dressing one’s age a thing of the past? I don’t dress like Granny Gump, either!</p>
<p>I’m a Talbots/Ann Taylor kind of person. So, I guess I do dress my age. I think it’s not so much about one’s figure as it is about taste. I’m sure my sons wouldn’t appreciate me hanging around dressed like a girl their age.</p>
<p>It depends. On business, the more conservative the meeting, the more likely I am to dress my age. Otherwise, no way.</p>
<p>unless you are on the beach- I don’t think showing your stomach is appropriate and that goes for if you are 16 or 36.</p>
<p>I don’t necessarily “dress my age”, although I did just recieve a shipment from Eddie bauer, and I am more likely to shop there, than say Alloy.
To drop my daughter off at school, I am going to be dressed more conservatively, than if I am going to a rock concert with my husband.
I really don’t feel the need to pass myself off as a teenager- thank the goddess!
I guess my motto is * wwssd?*
What would Susan Sarandon do?</p>
<p>I get odd looks sometimes from clients & colleagues when I show up dressed as if off the set of “Pirates of the Carribean.”</p>
<p>If I don’t have client constraints, my “natural” dress is that of a writer, and you know what <em>they</em> are like. Or maybe you don’t.</p>
<p>Control yourself Johnny.</p>
<p>TheDAd, I think of writers as looking kind of professorial-ish in white button down shirts (wrinkled) and rarely washed corduroy pants. Pirates of the Caribbean? Did I miss something?</p>
<p>Did I miss something?</p>
<p>Thedad is under the impression that he is the spitting image of Johnny Depp. 
( the writers I know- are hardly who you would want to pattern your sartorial efforts after- more along the lines of sweatpants that should have been thrown out years ago-but hey- there is a lot to be said for comfort)</p>
<p><em>lolololol</em> I ALWAYS check with my teenaged daughters to make sure I look “mom-like” enough, but <em>just</em> enough! ;)</p>
<p>That said, I usually shop in the junior dept. along with my D’s because I like the clothes better (I hate “mom jeans” for example <em>lol</em>), though I obviously avoid things that would ONLY be appropriate on teens, like belly-baring shirts and mini skirts and such.</p>
<p>My D’s and I actually share most of our clothes…they prefer some things from the women’s dept, and I prefer most things from the junior dept.</p>
<p>Now, I think I draw the line pretty well because my kids are proud of me when I get compliments and NOT embarrassed. In fact, last year I had to go to the h.s. one day to give my oldest son some college stuff he needed immediately…he walked up with a friend I had never met, and we exchanged a few words and I gave him the papers.</p>
<p>Later that afternoon, when my son came home, he said to me, “Mom!!! You’ll NEVER guess what Marcus said today!!” I asked him what it was, and my son said, "After you left, Marcus turned to me and said, “DUDE!!! Who was THAT???!!! She’s HOT!” And in a son’s typical disgusted fashion, he turned to Marcus and said, “DUDE! That’s my <strong>MOM</strong>!!!” (But underneath the disgust, he was quite proud <em>lol</em>).</p>
<p>So, though I do not dress in a tailored, “adult” fashion (hell, I’ve been home with KIDS for <em>20</em> years now!), neither do I dress in a teeny-bopper way. I do cringe when I see someone who looks terribly inappropriate, but I’m pretty much a believer in “to each his own.” And as long as I get the approval of my dh and kidlets, I figure I’m fine!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>There was a mom of a kid on S’s baseball team last year and she would wear low-rise jeans showing off her lower back tattoo. I couldn’t decide if she looked like she was trying to be 17 or if I was just jealous that I could never get away with that :rolleyes:</p>
<p>If the woman had a figure that could wear those kind of clothes, what she wore was appropriate – for the beach – not for showing up at her kid’s school.</p>
<p>Since 50 is the new 30 - yes, I dress my age.</p>
<p>I am old. Fortunately, I have inherited great genetics and I look 10-15 years younger than I really am. I dress in Lee jeans most of the time. I spent too many years (for my taste) having to wear suits every day. So, I dress in jeans on a daily basis. My children have not mentioned that they are embarrassed by me because I don’t wear makeup or dresses. I dress up for extraordinary life cycle events, and the shock value is great! When I see some of my college friends and see how they dress I think, “matronly.” So no, I don’t “dress my age,” apparently. Wanna make something of it? ;)</p>
<p>I have an addiction to jeans. I recently discovered that many women over 50 that I know DON’T wear jeans whenever possible. I don’t know whether this means I’m not dressing my age… I tend towards J Crew and Banana Republic styles. I love Birkenstocks, running shoes and hooded sweatshirts. For business I mastered business casual-one of the truly great developments of my lifetime. I can wear a business suit if I have to, but it usually will involve trousers and a tailored jacket. My other addiction is to tailored shirts like Facconnable and Thomas Pink.</p>
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I am <em>not</em> fond of jeans, but I wear them when I go out…they ARE my “dress up” clothes! <em>lol</em>. Definitely prefer stretch denims though! <em>lol</em> </p>
<p>Around the house and to the store and such, I usually wear flared lycra work out pants and soft, thin, fitted cotton tees (with lycra)…can you see a pattern here? Lycra is my friend! :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Stretch denim is another one of those wonders of modern time. THAT IS-once they perfected it so it wasn’t like the leggings of old.
Lycra is good. Yoga pants and looser fit running pants have replaced my old skin tight running tights. The over 50 body doesn’t look so hot in them anymore…</p>
<p>One should never wear spandex (or lycra?) unless one has seen one’s self in a mirror, including a view from the rear. --attributed to a set of costumer’s rules</p>
<p>As a writer, Dockers or jeans and an open-necked shirt, with shoes that vaguely match, does the trick. I’m really not all that “in” to clothing. TheMom once despaired that I got the same three colors of Levis flared jeans over and over and over again. And I was once needled unmercifully because I thought to match my tie and socks in color on an occasion when I wore a tie.</p>
<p>TS…and who says that I’m not?</p>
<p>TheDad, for the record, bears no resemblance to Johnny Depp. TheMom, TheDaughter, and I are all in full agreement.</p>
<p>Aries, TheMom, when the subject comes up, says “Yes dear.” Which rather refutes your assertion.</p>
<p>TheDaughter is merely expressing generational solidarity with you.</p>
<p>we always get on my mom for her “mom jeans” we’re slowly converting her over to more “stylish” jeans. my dad found this clip on the internet from SNL with the mom jeans commercial and it was pretty good. whenever there’s any type of holiday we buy my mom a new pair of jeans. sooner or later we’ll have replaced them all. the last time my sister bought her a pair of jeans she literally cut up one of her old pairs so she wouldn’t wear them anymore… haha.</p>