Dressing fearlessly: throwing out the style rule book

As someone who doesn't like to stand out in the crowd and isn't really interested in style, fashion etc I think I'm doing OK if I can find clothes that are practical, understated, match and are comfortable. My idea of breaking the fashion rules is wearing a pair of colourful sox and/or a scarf! I'm a rebel, me!

Yes I am doing the same - keep the old stuff for gardening and dirty work posher stuff for the rest. I still have stuff for going out though.

Unworn not worn.

Yep! Same here! I have just starting forcing myself to wear some of my - practically worn - 'best' round the house. Trouble is, it's not always such practical clothing.

Phew! Not made any major faux pas then in nearly 62 years!
My trouble is 'keeping things for best ' when ' best' rarely happens or for gardening/decorating as well as work clothes.
So do I really need to smarten up at home (chuck out fleeces, sweatshirts and baggy comfortable trousers) and start wearing out my other clothes?
What do other GNs wear around the house?

Marks and Sparks latest here, if you don't mind. Well, latest a couple of years ago.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) most people around us, of my age, don't dress up. Around the house it's old jupmers skirts or trousers, with a patterned cotton overall.
Even going shopping, they turn up in outofdate trousers and a thick fleece. Some turn up in their slippers.For best, the decent clothes they bought before retiring, ie 20ish years old.
If you shop after 5pm they're smarter, mostly mothers of families coming home from work.

Whether it's allowed or not, mine will be coming out if it gets any colder!

(Actually, I've got more than one...)

Looking at that list I would say it is quite acurate although like janeainsworth I do like my sneakers. I also have a fake fur coat that comes out in the winter is that allowed?

www.rantchic.com/2014/10/24/20-things-women-should-stop-wearing-after-age-30/
I think this is the article referred to .....I think it's spot on. The only thing on it that I do possess and wear sometimes is a pair of grey Converse sneakers (as worn by Michelle Obama).
I've never worn any of the other things at any age.

I think I may have missed the point

Shape should define what you wear regardless of age. I wear the clothes I enjoy wearing and suit my shape, which means anything that shows off my legs and nothing that belts round the waist, not a question of weight gain, but I do not have, and never have had, a waist.

I would like to think that I dont care what people think.
But the reality is, when I have slunk to the supermarket in a not very thought out outfit, you can think people are looking, even when they are not.

Plus, do we really want to look as if we are sloppy, or not able to look after ourselves?

Because the reality is, often those who dress themselves sloppily, often dont care about themselves at that given time.
It can be a sign of bigger problems.

I have my own rules.
If you have your own style, there are certain things that you wouldn't wear. You don't have to follow other people's rules.

Sadly, shape determines what you can wear when you are old (ish).

I bought a pair of fashionable trousers the other day. The close fitting legs showed up my thickened (that's not fat!) knees. Back they went.