Are there styles you consider off limits after 40?
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Anonymous
| If so, what are they? |
Anonymous
| Jeans with huge rips in the knees (or elsewhere). It looks awful on most people but especially over 40. |
Anonymous
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Short ruffle skirts
Toms shoes Longchamp Le Pilage tote as one's purse (fine as an extra carry bag, but grow up and get a real purse) |
Anonymous
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really short skirts or dresses even if you have great legs...closer to knee length is more appropriate.
anything sleevless if your arms aren't seriously toned. I also find that I need to be more polished to look acceptable...no more 'bed head'. I need regular trims on my hair which I used to go months without trimming. |
Anonymous
| You are seriously asking the Dankso crew this question? |
Anonymous
| This is coming from a 32 year old, but I think almost everything can be adjusted to be age appropriate. For instance, I saw one of those ruffle skirts in the Garnett Hill catalog that a 40+ could wear. It was just above the knee, and a pewter colored cotton. The model wore it with a white tank and flat sandals, and a fun necklace. This was a couple years ago, but I want to say it was called the Barcelona skirt? I think plenty of 40+ have great arms, so that sleeveless thing makes no sense. One exception I can thing of is a cut-off denim short. Those are very in style right now, in colored denim. I wouldn't wear them, even though I have great legs and an 18.5 BMI. I would just feel silly, and I would think anyone else wearing them my age would look silly. Now a colored denim short with a cuff instead of fray? Totally fine. So basically, I think with a few tweaks, anyone can look fine in anything. |
Anonymous
| Last summer, my mom tried to buy a frayed denim miniskirt. I literally had to beg her to put it down and then resort to telling her how absolutely assinine she would look in it. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
My mom too! But it was this year at Jcrew! |
Anonymous
Really? A 40-yo can't wear a sleeveless top? Have to disagree on that one. |
Anonymous
Why are you reading this forum if you have such a low opinion of the people who post here regularly? |
Anonymous
| Anything Pamela Anderson wears. |
Anonymous
You must wear Danskos. |
Anonymous
| Juicy |
Anonymous
Personally, I'd much rather see a 40+ woman wearing Danskos than cutoff denim, but that's just me. |