What I miss wearing - age related

TBH there is nothing I miss wearing. My tastes have simply changed with age and I’m quite happy where I am at. I go for classic design, nothing flashy, natural fabrics and pay as much as I can afford. I keep my clothes for ever. I washed a cashmere sweater today that I’ve been wearing and I bought it to wear on chilly nights in Cornwall with the GC when we took them on holiday. That was at least 10 years ago.

High heels! I can go from the car to say a restaurant in them or to a special event, but not if I have to stand around all evening in them, comfort is everything these days, I've become very attached to FitFlop as a brand. I always wore high heels to work, not quite the vertiginous type beloved by the likes of Victoria Beckham, but highish. Women are so much more sensible these days they don't risk their ankles on escalators and the like, lots of trainers to and from work and the high heels are no doubt stashed away in the office somewhere, or maybe they don't wear them at all. Good for them!

I still miss short tight skirts, loved ‘em!

I don't get the 'I mustn't wear sleeveless tops because of my flabby arms' concerns. My face is certainly nothing like it used to be, drooping eyelids, lines round my mouth beginning of marionette lines. But that doesn't mean I should cover it up, it is how I am and reflects my life. There is nothing obscene about upper arms.

However I do struggle with showing cleavage, simply because displaying cleavage is seen as showing off your assets, and I don't think a wrinkled decolletage is an asset to be admired, so I suppose I am not being consistent.

I can't wear high heels anymore, it is just too painful, but I never wore really high ones anyway. I can't get away with full skirts any more either, they don't go with middle aged spread!

Bikinis!!

I don't really miss anything that I used to wear and like the clothes that I have in my wardrobe – some sleeveless, some with straps, some with full-length sleeves, some skirts, dresses and pants knee length and some longer, some colourful and patterned clothes and some plainer and more restrained. I still wear high heels from time to time but am happiest barefoot.

Major abdominal surgery at the age of 21 left me with a belly resembling the London tube map and I did miss wearing a bikini when I was still a young woman. Further abdominal surgery some 20 years ago, plus the fact that 70 is looming means I have lost my desire to wear one.

What is nice is that absentdaughter quite often passes on some lovely fashionable clothes either because she has put on a little bit of weight or, more often, because she has bought a heap of new clothes and there is insufficient space in her large walk-in wardrobe.

I am happy wearing what I wear now too. I have evolved. I haven't just stopped wearing things overnight.

What I do miss is eye makeup. My eyes are so sensitive now that it just smears.

Halter-neck tops and dresses. I used to love those! Also backless dresses. (I grew up in a climate).

Like most of you, my lovely heels - all still here and looking at me reproachfully from their shelves, but they’re strictly special occasion only these days.

And I’m now looking anew at my sleeveless dresses. I didn’t think my upper arms were bad until DGS2 said the other day that I had bigger muscles than Grandad. He meant it as a compliment!

Correction - like many of you, not most.

My sister and i often say when clothes shopping 'Oh to be young slim and beautiful' There are so many lovely clothes around nowadays, reasonable prices and wonderful fabrics it must be heavenly to shop as a young person.

I prefer longer skirts /dresses and lower heels. I don't like shorts - but never have. I'm not a slim person but I enjoy clothes and am not afraid of buying a larger size if its something I like. If we enjoy wearing something that's all that matters. Why do you have to be young to enjoy shopping for clothes? I buy a fair bit from QVC where you can try the clothes in your own home with a 30 day money back guarantee if you return them within the time period. No ghastly changing rooms!!!

That's the first thing I thought of Sooziewoozie. My arms are flabby and chubby although I weigh less than 10 stone. I look ok in dresses but usually try to have longish sleeves.

High heels
In my teens and twenties I used to wear 3 inch heels every day.
When I married, my husband was only a couple of inches taller than me, the 3 inch went and dropped down to no more than 2 inches
We divorced, so at least the 3 inch heels came out at weekends! But unfortunately I had a fall after missing a step in the dark and damaged ligaments in my left ankle, as well as my knee so it's back to no more than 2 inches, pref wedges!

I don't much like my flabbier arms and wrinkly elbows either, but am disappointed that so many ladies refuse to wear sleeveless items because of them; many women years younger than me wear skin-tight clothes with VPLs or crotch-high slits, or are just overweight, and that seems to be accepted! Why is it such a faux pas?

Don't remember wearing sleeveless dresses even when really slim. I miss being able to without a bra. All that time breast feeding...hahaha

High heels, bikinis and thongs.

High heels. No contest

Sleeveless dresses, short skirts and high heels. Never really been able to wear bikinis but now I am dubious about one piece as well.

Dresses that go in at the middle. I no longer have a middle.

The bare arms option, I think, but nothing else! These days I just love wearing leggings, jeans, and nice long tops. Certainly this was not possible when I was working. And there is so much more clothing available in plus sizes now - virtually zilch (other than "old lady" polyester crap stuff) when I was a young woman.

Anything sleeveless. Not even short sleeves which leaves me limited during the summer to wearing long sleeved blouses /shirts rolled to the elbow. Any thing past elbow is a no go area.

Newgran2019 - some people don’t care what they look like, others do. It’s down to self confidence I think.

When I was in my 20s I had a couple of lovely dresses in a soft drapey brushed cotton, with frills at the neck ans skirt. One fuschia pink and one in airforce blue. And a couple of skirts in tiers. They looked young, almost childlike, but I used to look young for my age so it was ok on me.

I don’t see why we shouldn’t wear whatever we like as long as we do it with confidence. If we have bits we don't like, we could do something to remedy that eg, lose weight, tighten up the flab, cover up thread veins etc. It doesn’t matter what other people think anyway! Who cares!