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“What are grandmothers supposed to wear?”

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Forsythia Tue 18-Oct-22 19:47:24

They are selling those slax in M&S this year revamped for the younger market!

MissAdventure Tue 18-Oct-22 19:45:17

I'm intending to drown myself in a sea of beige crimpoline.
Slax (the kind with an elastic waist and a sewn in knife edge crease down the front)
A Pac-a-mac; in short, the lot, and not even a gaily coloured scarf to brighten it up.

Farzanah Tue 18-Oct-22 19:43:46

I thought it was a good article.

Norah Tue 18-Oct-22 19:39:50

This: Not all of us are grandparents, some by choice and others not, so I try to not talk about my grandchildren incessantly and to wear what people may not expect a grandparent to wear.

Everyone have reasons -- we don't have to "look a part".

How we appear is a choice. Everyone chooses differently.

V3ra Tue 18-Oct-22 19:39:14

She wears light grey designer loafer shoes in the "softest suede" to go to the pumpkin patch and chase after her granddaughter.

I wore black wellies by Dunlop.

Is this why I'm not an "influencer"? ?

Rosie51 Tue 18-Oct-22 19:36:16

Clothes. Preferably clothes suitable for the prevailing weather, if outside.

Witzend Tue 18-Oct-22 19:33:33

Nice loose, comfy Crimplene frocks, obviously, with a pinny on top, and pink bedroom slippers with those fluffy bits. Harvest Festival knickers.

kittylester Tue 18-Oct-22 19:28:54

You took the words right out of my mouth.

fairfraise Tue 18-Oct-22 19:25:33

Whatever they like, surely.

GrannyGravy13 Tue 18-Oct-22 19:24:19

Whatever they flipping want to wear

Sarah74 Tue 18-Oct-22 19:16:41

I sometimes read posts by the American blogger, ‘The Accidental Icon’, and I thought this latest one about what older women might wear, was interesting -

www.accidentalicon.com/blog/2022/10/03/what-are-grandmothers-supposed-to-wear/

Our roles are fluid and change throughout our lives. Mothers, lovers, married or not, workers, professionals, caregivers, retired or unemployed sometimes it’s hard to remember that who we are inside is someone who transcends roles even though it may be hard to find her when the roles she plays become all-consuming. It seems in older life we get the gift of re-discovering the person we may have lost or found as our roles change, or we can become someone we never knew before