<p>Footballmom, I would respectfully disagree. I think no one has ever looked good in capri pants except perhaps 5-year-old little girls! Cropped pants are a different matter. They tend to look good on most everyone. The trick is hitting just above the ankle. Those capri pants that hit right around mid-calf? Ugh. They chop up the line of the leg, add pounds, look bad, jmo.</p>
<p>Bras? Never been an issue. I’m not big in that area and have never minded a bit. My DD went to a graduation party last night and wore a dress from a few years back, halter top that did’t allow for a bra - she said, “Mom, I’m so glad I’m like you and don’t have to worry about managing around big b**bs!”</p>
<p>I think capri pants are cute. However, I never wear them because I am always cold. Same for sandals. I am no fashion maven (at all), but I do know socks and sandals are a no-no. I would never wear crop pants because at 5’2", I don’t think they look good.</p>
<p>My 30th class reunion was last night and it was…interesting. It was a very informal restaurant meal, not well attended. I think it’s difficult to get around one’s innate body size and style. People were grumping about weight, but it seemed to me most people were the same build as in HS.</p>
<p>I was the smart one, not the pretty one. My goal was to be clean, neat and professional looking. I do think some of the prettier type girls start to look “hard” after 40 when they try too much with the pancake makeup and the tanning beds catch up. That sounds petty; I don’t mean to–just my observation.</p>
<p>My personal aging beef is my skin…my face needs a lot more fat and I can’t seem to get there from my belly.</p>
<p>Sew, capri pants tend to look good on me. While on normal heighted individuals they come down to mid calf, on me they come to the end of my knees. </p>
<p>missypie–I notice fashion failures as well but seem to see them more on younger girls. Sometimes I wonder how they think <em>that</em> is appropriate for the office! Or for anything other than the bedroom.</p>
<p>I am happy capris & cropped pants are in but I’m sure they’ll go out again just like they did last time. When I was a kid the only people wearing “pedal pushers” were moms, like my mom, still happily stuck in fashions of the 1950s.</p>
<p>Oh well. At some point you’re happy just to be able to walk and it doesn’t matter what you’re wearing to do it.</p>
<p>At age 5 I remember pedal pushers and thinking they were not flattering. But who owns a zillion pairs of capris now? Me, because they allow for summer warm temps while covering up parts that are better off covered. </p>
<p>In some parts of the country, fashion doesn’t count for much. I think it is fun, but in my neighborhood, and casual city, those capris and Ts are about as dressed up as it gets, aside from a few arts events.</p>
<p>When in headstand…I often pass the time wondering just how long it would take for that small roll around the belly - which was there when I was 15 lbs lighter with boney hips - to shift to my face…so far, no luck.</p>
<p>My friend had one and put the spare fat into her breast (she had cancer), some on the face. I haven’t seen her recently but other friends told me she looks good.</p>
<p>If I found myself in headstand, I’d be wondering why they decided to bury me upside down and vertical, because that’s the only way it could ever happen.</p>
<p>I cannot do inversions. At the very most a modified shoulder stand, but really not my thing.
I am currently in a large hotel room with many more mirrors than I have in my whole house. Since this is a trip for Ds graduation, I brought my respectable mom clothes, but it is a revelation to realize I have morphed from a very young looking mom, while the girls were home, to someone who is definitely middle aged. ( & while dealing with my cane is a PITA, I like the extra help it gets me- but after my MRI I should have a better idea where that is going) Theres nothing like being dressed as a suburban matron, as I go out to smoke my medical marijuana. ;)</p>
<p>Many years ago, when pedal pushers and capri pants first came back into style, I was at an event on Halloween night and some people came in “costume.” There was a lady who was around 60, generous in the rear. She wore a pink sweatshirt, pink pedal pushers, ears and a pig nose. I cannot tell you HOW MUCH she resembled a pig from the rear. Now, whenever I wear my pedal pushers I wonder if my rear has reached the stage where I look like I am trying to be a pig for Halloween.</p>
<p>Sometimes, images just get stuck in my brain.</p>
<p>To my eye, pants cropped just above the ankle rarely look good. I don’t like the look of ankles sticking out of wide-ish cropped pants. They often make the ankles look too skinny, creating a choppy and unattractive line. OTOH, capri pants that hit just below the knee look better to me, allowing calves to flow into ankles and creating a more pleasing proportion overall. I realize all this is personal taste, especially since I’m usually not one to follow fashion “rules”.</p>
<p>I often don’t agree with Angie from “you look fab”, but in this case I do. If you Google “Caution: cropped pants can be risky”, you’ll see a picture where the top three capri models look much more attractive than the bottom three cropped pants models.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s generally true, Aging is highly individual. And it’s not as if you wake up on your fiftith birthday to find that your looks are suddenly gone! What does happen is that some women just get careless and lazy. But certainly not every woman.</p>
<p>Seems to me that one big difference between the Good Capris and the Bad Capris is the width at the bottom. Narrow width seems much more attractive. Otherwise, it looks (to me) like someone took some really wide-bottom pants and just chopped eight inches off of them, with no tapering.</p>
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