Things you think can make you look older than your years!

Nobody will ever tell me what non-u means.
I've only ever seen it used on here.

I wish mine had a long strap but otherwise I like it.

I expect all my basic are non-U

This is silly now!
How can a bag make you look old?
I bought my first Radley bag when I was 25.
I was extremely proud of it as it was £££
Still in use (special occasions) today.

GraceQuirrel

Those god awful fleeces with wolves or bears on them. Wearing sandals with the worst feet possible. Radley bags.

So wearing comfortable sandals if one has bad feet is a no-no, is it, even in hot weather?

I'm sorry, but if it offends you don't look.

Must search out my Radley bag and use it, it was a gift from a friend.

too short trousers. That can be easily rectified

A lot of modern trousers are 'ankle grazers'
I'm

Candelle

*Miss Adventure* better as in 'could do better'! Unless you know you are as perfect as you could be in which case you wouldn't have room for improvement.

Many of us become stuck in a rut, wearing the same things over and over again despite wardrobes full of other things. If we had a critical eye run over us, we may be brave enough to change our look. Some of the suggestions here indicate that others have looked and made a judgement, I believe that we are all guilty of doing this but... we may just learn something from the things deemed 'a no no'. It does not demean women per se, just that if others notice there could well be room for improvement or... looking better.

Maybe they don't want to 'improve'. Maybe they're happy dressing for comfort rather than style and don't need judgmental people making sneery comments.
Thinking, in a detached way, that 'Caroline would look much younger if she changed her hair' is very different from making supercilious and rather smugly judgmental comments and comparisons with your better dressed selves as some on here have done.

How very true!

Exactly Marydoll. Most of us can't help how we look. I have full dentures (since the age of 11) so have never really smiled properly. Everyone looks better when they smile doesn't apply to me. Now total hair loss, although no one would know I don't think. None of it my fault.
I am doing my best like most of us.

Years of pain etched on one’s face.

Awww, I had d to work really hard to get my poor old mum to wear sandals on her awful, crippled feet
I convinced her nobody would be looking.

Miss Adventure better as in 'could do better'! Unless you know you are as perfect as you could be in which case you wouldn't have room for improvement.

Many of us become stuck in a rut, wearing the same things over and over again despite wardrobes full of other things. If we had a critical eye run over us, we may be brave enough to change our look. Some of the suggestions here indicate that others have looked and made a judgement, I believe that we are all guilty of doing this but... we may just learn something from the things deemed 'a no no'. It does not demean women per se, just that if others notice there could well be room for improvement or... looking better.

Those god awful fleeces with wolves or bears on them. Wearing sandals with the worst feet possible. Radley bags.

Vintagejazz

I think some of the posts have crossed the line between general pondering on what can make you look older, and being a bit sneery towards the way some older people dress.

I think that too and if you throw the smugness into the mix....

Sometimes people look they way they are, due to illness or disability.
You would accuse me of slouching, if you saw me, because I have spinal fractures and a curved back. In addition, despite three monthly visits to the dentist, my teeth are not in a good state, for a number of medical reasons. Bad teeth are not always due to neglect and lack of personal care.
Thank goodness, I haven't taken some of the judgemental comments personally.

However, I do stand by my comment about, baggy, saggy bottomed, too short trousers. That can be easily rectified

Good thing mine is plain dark blue then, Sago !

As per usual.

I think some of the posts have crossed the line between general pondering on what can make you look older, and being a bit sneery towards the way some older people dress.

Better than what?

Is this thread really putting women down?

I think some comments are helpful and could make us realise that we could do better - which we probably all can.

I do think that older women who dye their hair dark brown or black ages them terribly: perhaps someone who is doing this but didn't realise that it doesn't suit them may in future try a lighter shade. Is is being helpful, non?

My best friend says she would rather be mutton dressed as lamb than mutton dressed as mutton. She mostly looks fabulous.

Talking of scrawny arms - or were we? I noticed, when Anne Robinson was wearing short sleeves, she appeared to have a scar up each arm from elbow to armpit. Would I be right in thinking that she has had surgery to get rid of 'bingo wings'? If so, it really didn't look very successful. She does go on a bit about all the 'work' she's had done on her face.

Who remembers gok wan fashion show? Your supposed to dress to suit your body. Im in menopause so I have a bloated tummy I think I look pregnant I like to wear wrap dresses. I think they suit me wear with trainers

FannyCornforth

Going by this thread, it seems that there are two types of women: those that put themselves down, and those who put others down

I'm sorry but I did not do either in my post so I disagree with you!

NotSpaghetti no need for an apology as far as I'm concerned

Most of us wear things we know make us look older - I have arthritis and wear lots of "sensible" shoes. I may buy the ones I feel less frumpy in but they are nevertheless shoes more suited to older people.
I have a cardigan that I love because of familiarity and comfort that is a decidedly "older person's" style.

Well that's me today and I'm just wondering if I should change before I go to the supermarket- you never know who might be eyeing you up and down!
My cardigan was Land's End last year but already gone tatty.
Skechers on my feet!
???

Oh no, NotSpaghetti, please don’t apologise! I feel like the
baddie now!
Please don’t think that I’m being judgmental - it was just my observation.

I’ve started a thread on clothes that we like.
It has no where near as many comments.
I just happen to have noticed that we often feel more comfortable being negative about stuff

I honestly thought this was a generally lighthearted thread. Like Casdon I hadn't seen anyone putting anyone down Fanny and if anything I've said makes you, or people, feel like that, I'm genuinely sorry.

Most of us wear things we know make us look older - I have arthritis and wear lots of "sensible" shoes. I may buy the ones I feel less frumpy in but they are nevertheless shoes more suited to older people.
I have a cardigan that I love because of familiarity and comfort that is a decidedly "older person's" style. I have a "wedding outfit" bought for its cut which suits me but it's in what I consider to be an "older person's" colour which I don't really care for - it suits me well enough to still feel ok in it though. I take it as a "win" that it fits me - no mean feat in my particular body! One day I may get round to having it dyed!

Most of us know and accept that life and living changes us.

I didn't think people would feel "got at" here so apologies again.