[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?

"badwilson" wrote in message
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Yoj wrote:

I do like to dress so that I think I look nice if I go out in public.
However, comfort comes first, with one or two exceptions, and I'm a
lot less fussy about what I wear to the market than about what I wear
to a Toastmasters meeting or to church.

My friend Elsa from Bangkok has just moved to Saudi Arabia. They live in
a Western compound, but whenever she leaves the compound, she has to wear
the abaya. She said it's actually a plus, because she can run out to the
market with ragged sweats on and nobody knows! Gotta look on the good
side of the abaya ;-)


Sounds like the equivalent of back in the sixties when lots of ran around in
rain coats over whatever we shouldn't have been out in. Rolled up pant legs
when ladies didn't wear them, baby doll pajama's when there just wasn't
time to get dressed for 8am classes etc.

Jo

-L. wrote:

Miniskirts on "older"
women make them look like they are trying to be younger, which to me
disrespects their maturity - I believe a woman should love her body as
it ages and appreciate the changes that happen

I really don't understand how wearing a miniskirt is disrespectful
toward one's own age. Maybe a 70-year-old in a miniskirt isn't trying
to convince anyone that she's younger. Maybe she doesn't give a rat's
*ss what age some stranger believes she is. Maybe she just likes to wear
miniskirts. Maybe she likes how she looks in them, or maybe her husband
or partner thinks she looks sexy in them. How can anyone who doesn't
know someone personally claim to know what his or her reasons are for
the clothing he or she chooses?

My feeling about clothes is that possession is *ten* tenths of the law.
In other words, if an old person wears an article of clothing, then that
article of clothing automatically becomes "old people's clothing". If a
woman wears a 3-piece suit and tie, then the suit and tie are women's
clothing. We should define who the clothes are for, and not let the clothes
define who we are (or should be).

Joyce

Enfilade wrote:

His friends hold
blue-collar jobs like graphic designer, portrait framer, security
guard.

Graphic designer is a blue-collar job? OK, maybe in terms of pay...

Joyce

Lesley wrote:

I knew a consultant histopathologist who was a total goth complete with
black hair and white make-up and used to decorate her office with webs
and bats and play Gothy music whilst dictating post-mortem reports

I know a lawyer who dresses totally goth - long, wild, extremely curly
hair, black lace tops, long skirts, a zillion bracelets and rings, piercings,
black eye makeup and so on. OK, so she's not a corporate lawyer.

Joyce

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

On the other hand, there's an American Indian nation/tribe
(from somewhere in the Southwest desert country) whose
metabolisms are super efficent because they evolved where
food was always scarce and "survival of the fittest" meant
utilizing every scrap of food as efficiently as possible.
Now starvation is no longer a threat, they tend to be very
"overweight" on a diet that whould cause almost anyone else
to lose weight rapidly!

The Pima, I believe. Their territory crosses the US-Mexican border,
and the ones on the American side have all kinds of health problems,
particularly diabetes, whereas the ones on the Mexican side, although
just as fat as the American ones, are healthy. It has to do with their
diet. The Americans eat a diet of fast food and processed junk, with
tons of sugar and hydrogenated fats. The Mexicans eat a traditional
diet for the region - largely beans and corn. They aren't any thinner
than the American Pima, but they're a lot healthier.

I think diet and activity level have a much bigger influence on one's
health than weight, in and of itself.

Joyce

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

I notice (with some dismay) that one
of the "large woman" catalogs includes shiny red leather
pants suits among its offerings. They'd look great on any
young, firmly built, proportionately tall woman up to about
a size fourteen. The notion of a size forty wearing such a
getup (in shiny red, yet) boggles the mind!

What do you suggest, navy blue polyester tent dresses? Thank god the
manufacturers of plus-sized clothes have figured out they have a market,
and now make some interesting things to wear in those sizes.

This is just the most petty of attitudes. I think that everyone who
feels the need to judge what other people wear, based on their age or
size, is seriously in need of a life.

Joyce
and a kick in the rear

and red is a very nice colour!!

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dnr wrote:

I also often wonder if my cats - if they'
were able - would LOL at some of my outfits, especially the "full
orange-and-blue"
regalia seen recently during playoff weeks.....

Yay, we're on topic!

One thing I love about animals is that they do not care what we
look like or what we're wearing, whether it's age appropriate or
size appropriate or whatever. Well, OK, one of my cats doesn't
like me in shorts because she doesn't like to sit or step on bare
legs. She'll balance herself precariously on 2 square inches of
the shorts material to avoid stepping on (ewwwww) *human skin*.

This reminds me of a wonderful ad for the Peninsula Humane Society
(in the San Francisco area), which ran on TV for several months last
year. It was a slide show of different human faces, with a voiceover
saying, "Whether you're young, old, straight, gay, fat, thin, tall,
short..." (and a bunch of other characteristics) "...you are
beautiful. Beautiful. To him." And when it said "to him" the screen
showed a photo of a dog. Then cut to the PHS logo. I loved that!

Joyce
And that's one of the things I enjoy about this group!! None of us know, or
care what each other looks like, what race, weight, economic status,sex
etc....we just have a common interest and enjoy being human. It is a
wonderful thing to be appreciated for one's personality not one's
appearance.

"badwilson" wrote in message
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wrote:
dnr wrote:

I also often wonder if my cats - if they'
were able - would LOL at some of my outfits, especially the "full
orange-and-blue"
regalia seen recently during playoff weeks.....

Yay, we're on topic!

One thing I love about animals is that they do not care what we
look like or what we're wearing, whether it's age appropriate or
size appropriate or whatever. Well, OK, one of my cats doesn't
like me in shorts because she doesn't like to sit or step on bare
legs. She'll balance herself precariously on 2 square inches of
the shorts material to avoid stepping on (ewwwww) *human skin*.

This reminds me of a wonderful ad for the Peninsula Humane Society
(in the San Francisco area), which ran on TV for several months last
year. It was a slide show of different human faces, with a voiceover
saying, "Whether you're young, old, straight, gay, fat, thin, tall,
short..." (and a bunch of other characteristics) "...you are
beautiful. Beautiful. To him." And when it said "to him" the screen
showed a photo of a dog. Then cut to the PHS logo. I loved that!

Joyce

Vino prefers jeans on hoomins. He recognizes them instantly and runs up
to give the jeans a good plucking, same as what he does to his sisal post.
It's so cute!
--
Britta
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

I can't wear skirts any more....the gang of orange see it as an invitation
to jump and swing!!! Especially the lovely gypsy skirts in fashion at the
moment!! I'm their favourite toy; hide and seek, kill the skirt greeblings,
ambushes, climbing, trying to fly, you name it!! Sometimes quite painful for
me, though!

-L. wrote:

I agree totally! I get *SO* ****ed off when my SIL calls my youngest
granddaughter "porker"

She's cute and she's definitely not fat! Such teasing is probably one
of the worst things you can do to a young girl. My sister did it to me
when I was a string bean and it gave me such a complex about my body.
I still remember it 35 years later!

I agree. That's an eating disorder waiting to happen.

When my sister and I were kids, I was very thin, while my sister, who
wasn't at all fat, nonetheless retained a little bit of baby fat. I see
pictures of her as a kid and she looks very average. But her face was a
little round, so my father rode her mercilessly about her being "fat."
And to this day, she has a complex about it. She weighs about 90 pounds
and frets over a 2 or 3 pound gain. She really gets neurotic about it.

As for me, in my 30s I experienced a huge metabolic change due to
medication, and I put on lots of weight. I dieted a few times after
that and lost a bunch, but it never stayed off. So at this point, I've
sworn off diet altogether. I believe that staying at my weight, whatever
the risks may be, is less dangerous than yo-yoing all over the place.
So now I eat a healthy diet with enough calories to keep me going, and
my weight is very stable. I'm fairly relaxed about my body. I don't get
neurotic about it, and I think that's because nobody abused me about it
when I was young and vulnerable.

I really feel sorry for that kid. You know that in about 5 or 6 years
(if not earlier), she's going to start making secret trips to the bathroom
shortly after eating...

Joyce

Yoj wrote:

I don't know why everybody can't worry about the beam in their own eye
instead of worrying about the mote in their neighbor's eye!

I agree, except that people are the worst when it comes to their own
weight. Most women I meet are neurotically over-critical about their
own bodies, especially their weight. That's not healthy, either. It's not
healthy for them, and it's not good for society, either, to have everybody
obsessing about their weight, instead of putting their energy into
something productive.

Joyce