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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"badwilson" wrote in message ... 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 |
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-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 |
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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 |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
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 |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
"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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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"NMR" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... "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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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?LONG
wrote in message ... 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. |
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-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 |
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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 |
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