Fashion “don’ts” for the aging woman.
Your HOT outfit is probably not your HOT outfit 30 years later.
Okay, I do live in the state of Florida where skin is revealed more often than not—particularly in the intense heat of summer. But, come on, let’s get real. At the age of twenty, the unblemished skin and tight upper arms may have lent themselves to sleeveless blouses and shorts or perhaps above-the-knee dresses. More skin was more and it was okay.
Fast forward to age fifty, sixty and beyond—and it’s a hot afternoon and you’re attending an outdoor cocktail party. It’s daylight, so the green eye shadow and heavy make-up just make us look way older than we actually are. But the clothes—come on, look in the mirror before you go out, ladies. I just returned from one such Saturday afternoon event. I have never seen so many overweight women stuffed into sleeveless, low-cut, too-short and way-too-tight bare dresses with visible panty lines, or sporting teeny-tiny shorts. It was way too much skin to take in. What was hot 20 or 30 years ago doesn’t make it now.
Sometimes I wonder if these women are experiencing a form of body dysmorphia—are they looking in the mirror and seeing something entirely different than everyone else? Or are they just not looking?
As for me, I’ll stick with my black pants and shirt with sleeves.
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