What is too old for short shorts?

[Anonymous]

I am mid 40s and frankly I think I still look good in them. Should I just keep wearing short shorts?

I am also a mom with kids in elementary school if that matters.

(I don’t wear them to work.)

[Anonymous]

IT IS NEVER TOO OLD.

Every time a poster starts with "How Old", that is the stock response.

[Anonymous]

How do your legs look? Especially the back - upper thigh area.

[Anonymous]

As long as you don’t have cellulite rock on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as you don’t have cellulite rock on!

Um. I had cellulite when I was 105lbs. and 17 years old.

[Anonymous]

As long as your cheeks are covered, you're fine.

[Anonymous]

IMO shorts don’t really look good on any women past the age of 18 or so, and some of us don’t look good in them then. Your legs need to be really firm.

[Anonymous]

I'm hanging it up and I'm 34. I work out a ton and am fit but my legs have cellulite in the back and I have some bad veins from 3 pregnancies. The irony is I have an extremely toned stomach but would trade for decent legs any day! I show my stomach a few times a year but legs daily from may to Sept!

[Anonymous]

I think as long as you can stand and SIT and they look good go for it. The sit test is important as we get older I think- firmness sometimes disappears when seated.

[Anonymous]

I'm 35, in shape with good legs, and I will occasionally do 3in though I prefer 4in. I wouldn't go shorter than that personally as I don't like the look and don't find them comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Tough to answer.

I only think you're too old when it starts to look silly and for me, personally, that's when I feel like I'm trying to wear the same thing I wore when I was much younger and still think it comes off the same.

That doesn't work FOR ME. If what you are wearing makes YOU feel good then I say 'rock it!"

Confidence and happiness are two of the most attractive qualities a person of any age can possess so you do you.

[Anonymous]

I’ve always had horrible legs but washboard abs. I’d trade in a second. Wear the shorts until you can’t! I see woman at the gym in their 60s with amazing legs. Of course they’re always in shorts. Meanwhile I’m wearing jeans in the swimming pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as your cheeks are covered, you're fine.

Agreed. That’s the only thing that would make me judge. Otherwise, I care not.

[Anonymous]

If you don't care about the disconnect between your body in youthful clothes and the wrinkles, crepey skin, age spots, thinning/graying hair, then rock on. I would take an honest assessment of that factor in a full-length mirror. Go for the OVERALL assessment, and not just "my legs look good."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMO shorts don’t really look good on any women past the age of 18 or so, and some of us don’t look good in them then. Your legs need to be really firm.

You think legs stop being firm at 18?