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Old 06-06-2008, 05:02 AM
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Age-Appropriate Clothes

i'll wear my Hello Kitty stuff to the grave.
i saw Cher, in a tiny dress, and she looked so good! on Ophrah with Tina Turner age 68 (looking marvelous), they sang a song together.

what do you think is too old to try and look sexy?
horizontally striped tights, micro mini's, fishnets (the beigh ones are in their own catagory), mohawks, metal spikes, kitty ear headbands, long dangly hair accessories, belly shirts, brightly colored hair (colors not seen in nature), and tight clothes.

there comes a time, if you get old enough, when some of these things won't look sexy.

some women can pull it off into their 50's or more. i remember Goldie Hawn wearing shorts and combat boots on a talk show, and the reviewer said that since she's 48yrs old (it was quite a while ago, but i'll never forget this) she should not dress like that. but, why? her body was fit, she looked cute and sexy.
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Old 06-06-2008, 07:10 AM
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I think most of the things you mentioned aren't really about trying to look sexy to be honest! I don't understand people who say you should stop having fun with your hair or stop looking remotely 'alternative' when you turn a certain age.

I'm 20 and I still dye my hair bright red; and I don't think it's OMGSHOCKING, because I've had compliments on it from old ladies. The only reason I don't do blue/green/purple is because these colours wash my face out. I don't think too tight clothes look good on anyone; but fitted clothes are sexy regardless of age, imo. I think sexiness is more than just showing flesh, which I don't think is sexy at all if it's too much, regardless of age.

I can't really think of anything that's out of bounds for certain ages, providing the person knows that they aren't 15 anymore and aren't trying to cling onto their youth. If I see someone who's doing the mutton dressed as lamb thing, I think it's more the fact that they're trying to look much younger than they are, rather than that they're trying to look sexy (and denial isn't very sexy). If you get what I mean.
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Old 06-06-2008, 07:19 AM
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I think I'm too old for the shit I wear now tbh :\ I feel like a bit of a mink when I'm out this way.
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atomicxfairie, i agree.good answer.sexy was the wrong word.

as the original punks are over 50, it's trippy to see. i don't see anyone looking like they dress "too young".

my look is playful, and never want to give it up. wearing a hello kitty backpack at age 60- yay or nay?

cock ring braclets at 70?
black lipstick at 65?
mohawk at 55?

this is for women, i'll start a thread tomarrow for men's fashion as they age.

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i dont know how im going to start dressing older, im only 19 now so i can dress how i like just for my figure rather than my age.

i dont want to have to start changing my taste, middle aged dressing bores me immeasurably.
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Get yourself a nice cardigan. You'll soon change your mind.
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I’ve started to dress differently in the past few years, not so much because I think I’ve passed some age line where I have to, but because I feel the need for a change. I feel silly wearing the same things I did 20 years ago, like I’ve done that to death. It seems to be part of a larger thing where I find myself frustrated with the way everyone I know seems to think they can sum me up and put a little bow on it (in the case of clothes, red and black – I’ll never give up black, but I’ve discovered blue shades are nice on me) and knowing it’s my fault because I always made such a spectacle of myself. Maybe this is a mini-mid-life crisis, but I’m just not 20 anymore, don’t even want to be. Although, outside of the people who already know me, and outside of NYC, I probably don’t appear to be dressed like someone pushing 40.
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I think if you feel genuinely comfortable in your "skin", whatever your age, you can pull a look off convincingly. Be that as it may, anyone over the age of 25 working a sk8r look should be summarily executed on sight (but that's my prejudice, I'm aware of it). I think eccentric English women of a certain age in particular are good at throwing out the book, inasfar as the "rules" of dress go: Vivienne Westwood, Zandra Rhodes, Marianne Faithfull...
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I think I'm too old for the shit I wear now tbh :\ I feel like a bit of a mink when I'm out this way.
I don't really think so.

How old are you?

I think it depends who you are, what shape your body is in, and where you're going/what you're doing.
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what i want to know is, do you feel pity for a woman 60+ wearing blk lipstick, spikes, & a mohawk? what if it looked good?

i saw a woman at work with blk & white horizontally striped tights, she was about 40, and she did not pull it off. you don't want the "baby jane" look!

one of my fave punk musicians, Texas Terri Bomb, performs in the nude sometimes, has a perfect body. idk how old she is, but she put 45 down on her myspace. she definately pulls off the punk look by not taking herself so seriously. i've met her, she's so nice and real.

i'm going to google old lady punk rockers.
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I do occasionally see older women who look really silly, and sometimes it’s enough to make me wonder if I should start wearing suits (haven’t gone there yet, except in job interview situations, although I tend to leave my striped tights in the drawer these days). I tentatively theorize that it isn’t so much that you aren’t allowed a certain look when you get older as that youngsters can be forgiven a certain amount of silliness in appearance, as they are still working out their self-image. By the time you’re 60, or even 40, you should have gotten somewhat of a grip on what is interesting and what is just stupid.
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I must say, the 50something punks that I've seen around town wear their fashion far better than the 50somethings that try and dress like their sorority girl daughters nothing worse than seeing Leatherface in a mini skirt and bleach-blonde hair with 50 lbs of foundation and eyeliner.

It's even worse when they're with their daughters whose fashion they mimic. Bless food service in college towns for these displays.

To be fair though the 50something punks I see aren't as outrageous in dress as their younger counterparts. Mostly just all in black with some boots and tats, the occasional spiked wristband maybe.
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I don't really think so.

How old are you?

I think it depends who you are, what shape your body is in, and where you're going/what you're doing.
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I think anyone over 30 wearing hello kitty, fishnets, metal spikes, etc would look absolutely pathetic. To be honest I don't like that style on anyone really, but to see an older person trying to pull it off, 99% of the time it looks ridiculous. To be sexy and youthful at an older age is one thing, but to dress like a 16 year old isn't flattering.
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i shudder to think what you'd think if you saw me in my cat ear headband, the pink extentions in my hair w/the Hello Kitty barrettes!

i'm 32, and love my legware! fence nets, and a whole drawer full of brightly colored tights.
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Be that as it may, anyone over the age of 25 working a sk8r look should be summarily executed on sight
Guilty-ish. Most kids with skateboards don't actually dress that way anymore, they all seem to be about the skinny jeans and lopsided hair (which seems pretty impractical to me). I always described how I dress as 'Deftones fan circa 1998' and it seems people who dress that way these days are my age, and similarly stuck.
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