Fashion Sense! Age Appropriate Attire

What exactly does this mean?  Well, if I am in my 50’s I probably should go ahead and donate those thigh high boots and miniskirts!  When we look at what is socially acceptable for our age range and the attire we desire are we even close?  Who is going to tell Pamela Anderson when to stop wearing her trademark mini dresses?  It certainly won’t be any man I know.  But what about the rest of us that are not celebaties, high fashion models or high profile singer, what is age appropriate and what can we really get away with? 

My take on this is simple; who do you want to be?  As fortunate or unfortunate as it may seem our wardrobe tells the world who we are.  It expresses our personality before we even open our mouth.  When you wake up in the morning you decide what you’re going to say to the world that day.  Example, do you wear the same thing to a job interview that you would wear to go out clubbing with your friends?  Of course not!  Because you want the job interviewer to take you seriously and you want to present who you think he/she wants to hire.  God forbid they meet the real you!  When you go to the wedding of a older couple you wear the more conservative outfit, but when your 22 year old gal pal is getting hitched you pull out the stops, still remembering that the bride should get all the attention but you get the eye of the all the single guys!  After all, she’s married! 

When we look at “Age Appropriate” aren’t we are really asking ourselves “what does society say I can get away with?” In your twenties, you can go all out! The high fashion run way is my play ground, look out Alexander McQueen!  You can wear short shorts and mini’s, showing off those twenty year old legs.  The designers are targeting your twenty something bodies with your firm buttocks and perky bosoms.    But remember there is a fine line between sexy chic and sleazy stupid, I think it’s about an inch in the hem line and comes with underwear. 

As we hit our 30’s, society has once again been very kind in that society it’s self has evolved.  In the old days, you know when your mother was in her thirties, society said live it up this is your last 10 years of looking like a million bucks! Great news!  Today’s thirties are yesterdays twenties!  We can (depending on body type) still where all our clubbing clothes.  Our thirties are a grownup still fun loving time in our lives.  You can even still tell people how old you are when they ask!

Then inevitably here it comes, the dreaded 40^th birthday!  It used to be filled with “now I have to wear old lady clothes” and “I am officially old!”  Well Ladies, not anymore.  Today’s forties are filled with style and sophistication; this is where it all counts.  This is when we have to really decide every morning “Who will I be today?”  You’re young enough to still look hot and the mirror tells you that you can still wear that mini, but does society agree?  Do you care what society says? It is a defining moment, that morning commitment to who you will be that day.  In that I am in my late forties I address each day with one question before I walk out the door.  That question is:  Will I be confident and proud of whom I am projecting today?

By the time we are in our late forties and fifties we have earned the right to tell society who we are and exactly what we will wear!  We no longer care if every guy is breaking his neck as we walk into a room.  As Sharon Stone once said “I am ok not being the most beautiful woman in the room”.  Although it is really easy for her to say that because she still is at least one of the most beautiful! 

A closing note to remember at any age, being noticed is important but how you are remembered is more important.  

Written By :Brooks Rose