The right to bare arms!

You wear what you want. I learnt not to give a hoot what people think after losing all my hair after chemo and it was so liberating. My view of a person is how they are with me not what they wear ?

Today.....I have been mostly wearing...a long sleeved cardigan! Very cool here for the first time, and raining, hurrah.??

....just can't do it ?....

I'm crying because I left a brand new, sleeveless white dress from Next in France over the weekend. I have sent the hotel an email, but they haven't answered, so hope lost I think. I wore T-shirts all week there.

Yesterday at Wimbledon, Anna Wintour ( of Vogue magazine) had a sleeveless dress on, and her arms were veiny, wrinkly and scrawny. I'm quite impressed that she hadn't covered up, good for her!

I don't care what others think of me,never did, if it's hot I wear sleeveless tops and crop pants, they are cool and I like them. Life's too short to worry about what others think.

Snap!!!!

My partner's Gran used to tell him 'If it suits the wearer, sod the starer'

Why should we be the ones to cover up when the streets are full of badly dressed overweight young women!!!!

This made me laugh out loud!?

DGS has recently become fascinated with the crinkly skin on my elbows and can't work out where it goes when I bend them

Marieeliz I was prescribed Cetraben after a particularly bad bout of excema on my fingers. I now use it on all exposed areas every time I shower, while the skin is still moist but not dry as that seems to help the absorbency. Always used to use moisturising bath lotions but moved house and only have a shower now, so need the extra nutrients in the cream.

I meant to say the arm has to be bare and she will push my sleeve up if I'm wearing long sleeves!

My DGD loves what she calls my 'squidgy' arms and often asks for an arm to cuddle when she is tired or fed up. I thought it was just our special 'thing' until we met her one of her nursery staff (a more mature lady) out one day and she asked if she could go over and cuddle her arm. The lady told me she loves her 'squidgy' arms too!

I don't care either. Not much can be done about older lady arms so if that's all we gotta worry about. ......

My arms are crinkly and the skin is very dry. Despite rubbing cream into them. Any tips for lubricating them? My friend is older than me and we compared arms the other day hers aren't as bad as mine.

I clean in the nude too. Of course I close the curtains. After all I don't want to scare the horses

I've lost a ton of weight over the past year and a half and rediscovered my shoulders so they are on display whenever possible - even in the office!!! Have also managed the best tan since 76!!! My son and his family have just invited me to holiday in fuerteventura with them at half term and I have bought two swimsuits- oh I feel so free!!!! ??

I've always hated my upper arms so covered have covered them for years. I've also had a brush with skin cancer so am much happier covered up. This doesn't mean that I'm more uncomfortable than those of you who are in the expose and be dammed camp! I wear loose tops or shirts that, I think, are lovely.
Yesterday I was out with my sister in a very sunny place all day, she ended up putting on my thin cardi when she decided that even with spf 30 her arms had had enough.
I cringe when I see so many silly people going redder and redder.

Go for it ladies. If you feel OK with what you are wearing so should the rest of the world. I now feel inspired to go sleeveless.

Caro I need to know - how did your bunion op go ?! I hate my bunions and it's so unfair, never wore fashionable shoes growing up cos was told it would harm my feet and look what good it's done me!

I don't care I wear what I like.

Ladies, bare as much as you want! Why not? I hate my bare arms AND legs and am not keen on baring them, but that's my choice. I had a bunion op earlier this year and find myself longing to bare my (previously ugly) feet! Still not warm enough up here in the north of Scotland though. Typical!

it's hot and humid here in the deep south - dorset!
the temperature is only[!!] 20 degrees today although it's been as high as 27 in the past few days.
i don't do hotter than about 18 degrees - as my grandaughters tell me i carry my own insulation and don't need the sunshine to help me keep warm.
i bought a "bandeau dress" a couple of years ago from asda - one of those strapless dresses with elastication over the bust. it's black and full length but, when i'm home, this is all i wear!! mind you i'm very conscious of my bingo wings so keep a sort sleeved cardi handy if visitors come [although that's not a good idea at the moment].

W11Have you tried a swim dress.They have some lovely ones in Bon Marche and they hide a multitude of sins.
I bought one this year and i love it i feelflirty and young in it and i now go swimming more than i did before.It has given me confidence.
*Hooty i loved your comments about the children touching your arms,i can picture it in my head,it made me laugh out loud.Children are so funny sometimes, but also so are we of the older generation!!!!

My arms are wrinkled, which discomforts me, but I still bare them in hot weather. What I dislike, though, is seeing older women with enormous sagging breasts going about in public in skin- tight spaghetti strapped tops. There's just no dignity in it. Is it a class thing? Am I being catty?