What I miss wearing - age related

Slipping into a size 10/12, short skirts and high heels and actually running for a bus in them. Now I need to drop two dress sizes and can fall over in flat shoes.?
Most if all my size 34 b bra, now 388dd and my t shirt foam lined bra resembles a hammock.

I’m certainly better dressed now in middle age than ever and much more confident but I did used to love doing my dramatic, verging on goth makeup in my early teens and people used to stop me to comment on my hair which was huge with so much hairspray used it was probably me who damaged the ozone layer.

Short skirts and shorts - my legs are covered in broken veins which have got worse as I’ve got older.

Newgran2019 if it was just flab I might consider it! ??

I can't get the image of Dick Emery in his wig, coat and handbag walking in high heels up the road lol EllanVannin
I used to wear high heels and platform shoes and wedges. If only I could go back to the 70's and wear 'hotpants' again short skirts and halter neck tops and false eyelashes. Then came the midi and maxi skirts and coats. I had the figure then and weighed less. These days it's high waist jeans to hold my stomach in.

Having somewhere to go in high heels. I have one pair (now 6 years old!) that I rescue from the bottom of the wardrobe from time to time and sigh over. Whether I would actually be able to walk in them now is another matter altogether!

High heels (though I didn't wear them that often), shorts (ditto) and bikinis (though I stopped wearing them many years ago).

I generally avoid sleevless tops but I've recently found a couple that don't look too bad. Short sleeves that are cut horizontally across at the fattest part of the upper arm are very unflattering but short sleeves on a slant (I don't know what the technical term is) or no sleeves at all are just about OK for me - especially with a bit of a tan.

Saggi
What size are your boobs?

I expect you're right, Poppyred, but as I lack confidence in so many other areas my arms seem less important! I do care what I look like to a reasonable extent, but don't think flabby arms are that bad in the general scheme of things. Well said, Phoebes.

Monica: Words of wisdom, as usual.

varian I would have found that surgeons comments reassuring- we are the shape we are, now in our nearly senior years.

I am apple shaped, short ( and I have shrunk a cm lol) but I find plenty to wear. I am wearing a green Seasalt linen dress with sleeves out tomorrow for lunch.

I sew too. We are all still here - let’s rejoice it ladies?

Why? she must have known that anyway. I wish my GP was similarly blunt. (not to me, I am not overweight) but to other members of my family.

Varian. Never expect empathy from a surgeon?. I remember one I knew who told an over plump fifty-something patient “there’s nothing wrong with you that a little dieting won’t cure”. She rushed out of room in tears of outrage!

I don't miss wearing any one thing in particular, but it does annoy me that most clothes are made in styles and materials appropriate for young women in their early twenties.

I am 5 ft 2, weigh and around 50 kgs, most clothes these days are made for much larger women, whether young or my age. I can rarely even find skirts or slacks in the charity shops, apparently only larger ladies are charitable!

Too many threads on what we do not do/wear/, too few on what we do.

Ladies, Ladies please. No matter what age you are if you are comfortable wearing a certain item of clothing wear it. Life is to short to keep worrying about other people. If you are a certain age you are not going to wear mini skirts and six inch heels. I’m in my late sixties. I still wear tight jeans, skirts above my knee, full face makeup. I go for pedicures and manicures. Posture is important. Don’t forget to smile?? go for it

There is an opening for a shop named something like ‘Sleeves’. I’m sure many women would flock to it,

When I was at university I had a 4 mile walk back to my accommodation if I missed the last bus, which left at 10.30. You only do that once in high heels.

I have very sparse eyelashes, but recommend a white primer, L’Oréal make a good one, white one end, mascara the other. Couldn’t live without it, it thickens them up no end! Also add a fibre/gel combination mascara, miraculous.
I love clothes and although I steer away from sleeveless dresses (Theresa May looked awful at the Buckingham Palace dinner...) I never understood women saying they can’t find clothes, the shops (and charity shops) are heaving with them.

Oh, I walked for miles on my heels, Margs, and never felt uncomfortable. A mile up the road to work, a mile back, and all the trotting round during the day. It’s different now - ten minutes and I’ve had enough. My dear GM lived into her mid 90s and was never to be seen out without heels and a hat - obviously she was made of sterner stuff!

Reading this thread I am amazed how many people wore uncomfortable clothing; high heels, straight skirts, bikinis.

I wore uncomfortable clothes, for one year between the ages of 18 and 19, the first year I could buy my own clothes with out my mother paying and making the decisions on what I wore..

At the end of that year, out went my 2 pairs of stiletto heels, 2 straight skirts, and later I bought a bikini for one holiday, and have never wore one since. Replaced by
neat little Louis heels, A line skirts and swimming costumes. Clothes I could bound around in, walk miles in, and cavort in water without thinking about them.

Changes in fashion mean I now live in trousers and leggings and the occasional skirt, but I begin to understand why my answer to the question on this thread was Nothing, yet

Ah, the nostalgia of the memory of 1980's stilletto's (Dynasty, Dallas, Joan Collins, shoulder pads, big hair, etc.)

How on earth did I walk in the b*ggers?

High heels, short skirts,cant wear heels for long now, wore them all the time when young, can manage 2inches

I kind of miss the smart blouses that I wore for work - but then I remember the ironing and the feeling goes away!
I certainly don't miss high heels - the last time I wore a medium heel I ended up sideways on the pavement.
What I do miss is pretty hair accessories which I wore when my hair was long. Now it's in a short pixie style and there's no need for them.

High heeled shoes