Fellow Fashionista Grans: do you wear what you like or what you “should?”

I finally wear what I like!

What I like.

What suits me.

I wear what I feel good in, my choice of footwear has to suit my partially paralysed side and foot drop. I want to be able to get about without falling or injuring myself. It’s all about confidence really

I wear what I like, but keep to a certain colour palette. I've lived long enough now to know what suits me. I don't like having my legs on show these days so I stick to trousers and midi length skirts and dresses.
I've never worried about what others think. I please myself.

I wear what I feel I look good in. If I get a compliment-even better.

Apart from wearing a uniform for a job when I was young.
I have never let anything influence how I dress.

I wear what I like and comfort is my priority.

I wear what suits my body shape, which isn’t the same as what I like always. For example, round necks do me no favours, and they are everywhere this year - I do like them, just not on me. So I guess I do follow some self imposed rules.

Having read a recent thread about what we shouldn't be wearing, I realise that I do/wear my own thing!

Mostly what is comfortable

Nanamar. I also love clothes and still enjoy experimenting a bit despite being 70 plus. I think our sense of style and what is most becoming tends to evolves and change over time. We get to understand what suits us best.

I would probably say my style is now "classic with a twist". Dressing for my body shape, in colours that compliment my hair colouring and skin tones. So I too would say I dress to please myself. I've learned that well cut and tailored garments suit me best, no Frills, or flounces, no gathered waists, nothing too bulky and no black next to my face.

I think that often it's trial and error. We learn from our mistakes.

My advice is to take a photo of yourself. We can look in a mirror and think we look good but the camera might tell a different story.

Capri pants can work well but they have to be slim fitting, not loose and baggy. And the length should not end at your calves / the widest part of the leg.

If I do wear capris I make sure they finish higher, slightly below the knee. You could get ankle grazers which are very fashionable right now. They I don't suit me.

When it's really hot I tend to go for long wide legged pyjama type linen trousers or palazzo style. If you are petite you might feel they swamp you, however With the right shoe they can make your legs look longer. If the trousers are long enough to hide the top of your shoe there's no need to forgo ankle straps.

As we get older comfortable shoes are a must and like you I now feel I need to support my ankles. For that reason I love ankle boots but obviously not in hot weather.

I do think we can't look stylish if we don't feel comfortable or if we feel self conscious therefore I think we do need to dress to please ourselves.

Black jeans and various too and jumpers, dresses if it's warm enough, golf and netball gear seems to be my usual clothing. Not fashionable usually classic. Too fat and old for fashion.

Jeans of different colours and crew neck T shirts are my normal day wear. With jumpers in the cooler weather.

Smart trousers and a top if we go out, usually flat shoes as they are comfortable.

I have some longish shorts if the weather gets so hot that I can’t stand trousers, but that’s quite rare as I’m always cold.

If I have to go somewhere formal, I dress accordingly.

As others have said at my age I know what suits me

A combination of what I like + what suits me.

At 5'2" wide legged trousers look silly.

With a couple of stone to lose anything waisted is wasted - I don't have one.

I have my own rules about disliking the sight of acres of cleavage and lengths of leg, on any age and size.

Beyond that, I enjoy bright and beautiful. Mostly trousers and tops for comfort, I have a growing reputation for loud trousers, but I love the swish of an occasional frock.

At 5'2" wide legged trousers look silly

So be it, I look silly.

I wear, what I like and the colours I like. I am quite tall, so at the moment ankle grazer trousers, t shirts, mostly white and Birkenstocks. Just been to a ‘do’, so it was a maxi dress and very slightly elevated sandals. I don’t like bright anything , so muted colours.

At 5.2 I wish I could find ankle-grazers that graze my ankle!

I haven’t changed my style drastically over the decades.
I tend to favour bohemian style clothes, long skirts, and pretty tops, or floaty dresses, probably am getting too old for it now, but I’m not bothered, it makes me feel good.

I wear precisely what I want to wear which to be fair isn't inappropriate for my age. At 1 time I was never out of heels, the reason being, I'm 5ft 2, but now its a case of I whoosh past the heels on the shelf and make my way to the flats. Its a case of it is what it is so I either wholeheartedly welcome the flats and feel sassy in them orrrrr I teeter, totter and stagger 3 steps in heels before feeling anything but sassy !!! Hahahaha.

I think how you dress depends on where you live.
A women living in a sleepy little fishing village in Cornwall, is not going to dress how a woman living in Camden ( London ) dresses. You’re affected by your surroundings whether you realize it or not.

I am no longer at work so do not need to be smartly dressed. I wear precisely what I want- I have to wear tousers all of the time because I have lymphodema in both lower legs caused by surgery.

I am 5 foot 5" so that does help. I have not worn heels for 20 years +.

I agree Kandinsky. What I wear now in my sleepy little village in Norfolk bears no resemblance to what I wore when working in the City.

I'm a natural born scruff with no sense of style unfortunately. I wear joggers with t-shirt or jumpers at home. I have more decent joggers for going shopping etc and a good pair of black trousers for 'best'. Linen trousers for warmer weather. I mostly live in trainers. I hate feeling all ' dressed' up.

If the mirror image pleases me, I'm sorted. The aim is colourfully co-ordinated in the direction of smartly stylish. Think I achieve that regularly. Certainly receive compliments from the younger family members which is nice.