<p>“my beloved Birks”----YES!
From April until my toes get too cold --I even have my “dressy” ones which my kids say are not really dressy (you know to wear to church with the T shirt dress:) ).</p>
<p>We wear Birks with socks all winter here in Texas!</p>
<p>I haven’t worn Pumas- cut too narrow for my apparently German stock feet, but did you know you can custom design Converse shoes?
high tops/low tops/slip ons, even come in velvet and you can add writing. 
( I used to wear Birkenstocks- but now I like Keen & Chaco sandals for outdoor shoes- plus much more sturdy than Birks- they can get * wet* -something that occurs often in Seattle!)</p>
<p>Hurrah!
Finally a few minutes of not thinking about college.
Berurah, I too love lycra; it reorients a multitude of sins. But no visible torso; I am too old for that.
Due to loss of melanin, I ALWAYS wear makeup. It was hard to get in the habit but it really makes me look a lot better and I have come to love it.</p>
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<p>Yep, I do that too, when it’s cold and/or rainy. In fact, the only time I don’t wear them is if there is more than about 2 inches of snow ;)</p>
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<em>lol</em> WELL put! It reorients some…and exacerbates others. Gotta choose your lycra carefully, much as you choose your friends <em>lol</em>. :)</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>I’m probably the only person here who wears Brooks Brothers suits although a few, very few, of the senior male bureaucrats will wear a tie. It gives me an air of gravitas that I don’t normally feel, or deserve, but I find useful in my job.</p>
<p>I’m talking lycra as in the 1-2% lycra- NOT the bike short lycra-look. When I wear my bike shorts to spin class I am NOT happy with the aging process…
Pumas- I believe in the concept of minimalist running shoes to augment training in clunky cushioned trainers, and I have 3 pairs of a Puma called HStreet. It is an awesome, comfortable shoe and can be used for casual wear or exercising. Comes in neat colors.<br>
Another neat new development is running/fitness skirts. They have little bike shorts (or some have briefs) under them- sort of like a tennis skirt only designed for running or fitness training. They are really cute and a nice change of pace (pun intended).
I believe in the Keynesian school of economics- spending my way out of depression. :)</p>
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EXACTLY…you know, the kind that DOESN’T require a studied examination of your hiney in a mirror before you leave the house…<em>lol</em></p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>I don’t do the exposed midriff thing because it would draw attention to my belly-button ring.</p>
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Aren’t those DESIGNED to draw attention??? ;)</p>
<p>I use the oversized Longchamp and Vera Bradley totes (so lightweight) as carryons for travelling, They are also hugely popular with the HS girls as bookbags!</p>
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Only from those who are close enough in family terms to see them regularly. :)</p>
<p>tsdad, keep wearing those Brooks Bros. suits! I think people have gotten way too casual today.</p>
<p>And my tattoos.</p>
<p>Ah, yes- tattoos. I got two about 5 years ago (speaking of age…)
I was solidly entrenched at a professional job where my need to be somewhat “different” was accepted. Within a year I found myself in the job market wearing long sleeves the the interviews, in case these companies didn’t want their new executive to have tattoos. I love the tattoos and the whole thing has become quite mainstream now. I just went with a friend (59) while she got a gorgeous butterfly with the name of her deceased son below it on her upper ankle.<br>
I have a Christian cross on my lower leg and a gorgeous mountain and river scene on my right forearm. Everyone I knew was pretty shocked at the time, because I am afraid of needles.</p>
<p>YIKES! I think I’m out of it…I don’t even know what “mom jeans” are so I’m afraid that may be what I wear!!! Does that just mean they aren’t so low that they reveal skin when you move??? Since I don’t have daughters, and my sons don’t seem to comment on my style, would somone enlighten me? ;)</p>
<p>I discovered in the last year that the jeans I’d been wearing really were too frumpy – they came way the heck up seeming to my armpits (well, not really, but they were cut too high), and the “low-rise” being sold for teens are NOT meant for most women one over 50. But there is an answer! There is a cut called mid-rise that fits and isn’t frumpy and I’m mostly living in those now.</p>
<p>dak</p>
<p>we need a website where we can email in photos of our jeans to determine their mom-ness; I suggest: ratemyjeans.com</p>
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<li>There is no way driver has tatoos and a belly ring</li>
<li>Mom jeans mean they aren’t so tight they hurt your arthritic hip and they aren’t so low that that hurt your arthritic hip even more:).</li>
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<p>I don’t care that much about the revealing/appropriate thing (old hippie, mild rebel, etc.) but I will be god-damned if I let my clothes make me ache…And I promise it is possible to find mom jeans - as I have defined them - that allow you to still remember girlhood, even though it is far, far away.</p>
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<li>SBMom - Cross-post. LOL.</li>
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