At what age should we stop....?!

Remember when shell suits were all the rage? I saw two 80+ ladies going into Morrison's wearing bright blue and pink shell suits. They both had short hair, coloured with tints of blue and pink. They looked fabulous. Wear what you like, I say.

Very short skirts Please note Angela Leadsom. Very few women over 60 still have nice knees (lots of very skinny ,toned women under 60 don't either ...)
I still have good legs but wouldn't wear anything other than than just on the knee Shorts strictly for garden I'm 65

Ok, yes. I'm with you on the knees thing! Shorts and skirts need to stop at the knee. Although, that's true for the majority of people as well - all ages. Only a minority have fabulous pins ?

I saw the pics of Andrea Leadsom, and thought they weren't the most flattering. But, nobody died, so if she was happy, who cares?

Stop wearing and stop doing what you want when you want too. Not when convention and the damn fashion police say so.

Hear,hear nina, well said.

I had fabulous pins until my mid forties, but since then the varicose veins have flourished, arthritis has taken it's toll, and my ankles swell at the first suggestion of warm weather!
I still dress fashionably, but tend to keep my legs covered these days....and I would never wear a jumpsuit, I'd look like a weeble!

I had my hair chopped off when I was 21 and it has stayed at varying degrees of shortness ever since.
It's thick and unruly and much easier to cope with short!
However, if I wanted to grow it I would.

Quit trying to learn technology after 40

Listen up you kids - who do you think invented technology?

Oh dear after years of wearing, post mini, maxis and then midis, today I bought a knee length dress. Never having worn nail varnish in the first 65 years of my life, I now have painted toenails and occasionally painted fingernails. Never having dyed my hair, last week I had low lights and highlights. And don't get me started on the skin routine I have just purchased, after years of perhaps some Nivea now and then. DH says I am now high maintenance! In joke because with all his food intolerances that's what I call him. The reason for all this at 67? I have just lost 3 stone and feel fitter than I have since my youth!

Wow Nandalot that's wonderful!

What has age got to do with it? As you get older the range of looks and figures women (and men) have is so various that it is impossible to make any rules based on age

I once saw a woman, who I think was probably in her 60s. She was wearing a short knitted dress that fitted her like a second skin, opaque black tights and high heels. Her figure was faultless and her legs were also. She was well made up and had shoulder length grey hair. She looked fabulous. Most women of her age probably couldn't get away with following her look - and that is the point. Did anyone see that lady of 100 who was in Vogue? She, again, looked fabulous, but whether all centenarians could look as good is doubtful.

I will never again be seen in a bikini, not because of my age but because I tried to wear one once, in my 20s and found it so uncomfortable I vowed never to do it again. I probably could if I wanted to. I am 72.

Nandalot I am with you all the way.

I entirely agree that people should wear what they want to. However, the downside is that their appearance may give entertainment to others and not necessarily in a good way!
Recently I've just wanted to blend in with the background. Not sure when/if I'll ever bother much about my appearance again. (I do wash though. No need to panic anyone!)

At what age should you stop e=wearing skinny jeans, about 10 minutes before you snuff it IMO (assuming you are capable of wearing skinny jeans of course, but there are other equally sexy options for the non-skinny figure (which is the one for me ).
When should you stop wearing shell suits, at about 5 (IMO of course)

Having just been to a Warners hotel this week, I can vouch for there being many ladies that look good in skinny jeans etc (managed to dance with a few of them) (with Mrs P's consent of coarse) One lady would not accept that I only knew one sequence dance and tried to teach me every one that was played, with zero success.

Nandalot I am impressed!

I think you can do whatever you want, but it doesn't mean you are not delusional about how you look to others. You have to be comfortable with yourself and not that many women are these days - going by on here or else where.

At the risk of getting shot down in flames, older women might wear something fashionable with something frumpy - and then get the hump of someone tells them if they haven't got the 'look' right.

It's all about not caring what anyone else thinks and being happy with how you look. Easier said than done.

What a great achievement Nandalot you must be feeling great!

I try to remain fashionable without going to any extremes but was slightly crushed when my DD said "mum, I see the look you're trying to achieve, but do you really think it suitable for your age?" WHAT! I was wearing a pair of jeans and an off the shoulder top...everything completely covered other than a couple of inches of shoulder

Linsco that's exactly what I mean! But if you like it, then that's what matters. I upset my Mum last year by saying I thought her jacket was frumpy. It got a bit embarrassing when she started asking shop assistants if they agreed with me or her! I learned my lesson.

I am nearly 72 and have recently lost a lot of weight. To celebrate I have bought 4 pairs of skinny jeans. I love them and DH thinks I look good in them , so I don't worry about anyone else.

I think you should wear whatever you feel comfortable in. I'm 71 and I no longer wear short shorts, I wear cut off's, instead of short skirts I wear skirts that come just below the knee and I have discovered long dresses and skirts. I love them, my DH says they are very feminine and I look beautiful in them. Ignore the beautiful remark, DH is getting a little short sighted in his old age but I love him for saying it. On Friday, while out for a walk I saw a woman with black hair streaked with white and styled in a weird kind of bouffant, she wore leggings, a hippy tie dye shirt, chunky necklaces and Pat Butcher style earrings. IMO she looked odd but her husband had his arm around her and kept kissing her cheek, obviously he was happy with the way she looked. She was comfortable and not bothered by what others thought of her. So I say wear what you like, so long as you don't scare the horses, as my granny used to say

I think it depends on where you live too. Some areas are more conservative than others. In my area, which is urban and close to the City Centre, anything goes.

In other areas of the City, particularly in the 'burbs, people tend to be more conservative, and dress more conservatively.

Somewhat off piste I know but, why do so many of the female weather presenters wear outlandish clothes, which are usually too tight for the podgy ones?

I've noticed that, too, anya. I feel quite sorry for them. Those dresses hardly ever fit properly, they are imho too restrictive for movement, they usually have tiny sleeves and high necks-unless you're built like a pipe cleaner not flattering. And telly adds more weight.

I think Carol Kirkwood always looks good in what she wears-happy and relaxed. She's lost loads of weight mind.

What ever you and someone close thinks looks good. My old school friend, 67, has had long ,loose hair since I have know her. It is long and silky and was jet black;, now it is pure white and she has always worn a fringe. It is her and she can carry it off with style.

Carmen Del Orifice is a wonderful role model for older women, methinks. Wow.