What are late 30's early 40's women suppose to be like?

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I think that hiking boots, jeans and a sweater looks really good and natural so what's not to like about that?

I have absolutely no good advice to offer you.

I am still wearing jeans, shirts with bell sleeves, laced v-necks or cut-up tees, and crocs.... and I live in, cut-off jean shorts, cami tops, thongs and bare feet all summer.

I only draw the line at tube tops & spandex.

I thought I was the only one with this wondering, wow!

I'm 47, and I wear what I like on weekends (jeans, training suits, T-shirts). For work I wear a sweater and pants in winter, a dressed-up T-shirt and pants in summer. But if I wasn't overweight, I'd wear what the young women wear. I find that lots of forty somethings today wear the same as the young girls.

I was acquainted with a woman who was just about menopause age, and personality-wise she was really neat in an akward youngish sort of way, and she had a sort of refined rockabilly style of dress that I thought was pretty becoming for her..Vintage glasses, Betty Paige hair, dark, eclectic clothes...etc...
That look really worked for her.

I think we need a pictoral fashion thread for everybody to post in and get ripped apart for our sense of style, kind of like that program that was on TV.

Uh-oh....sounds like a good idea..

I wanna play.

I have been dressing the same way since high school.

I really do have a hard time reading people, and it just could have been my imagination, but I coulda swore I got the Yuppie stare-down at the fancy grocery store the other day.

Surely those ladies weren't jealous of my grimy black hoody, red paisly nightgown, highwater jeans and crocs....

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp2015192.html#2015192
here it is!

Gary I'm not brave enough for that.

Someone mentioned young men's current fashion of shirts with first three buttons undone. I haven't noticed that one, but its because the local young mens fashion is even more distracting, discomforting, disgusting, etc. The high school and college guys pull their low waist jeans down way past their briefs. I'm not talking just showing his Fruit of the Loom waistband, but they have their jeans pull down till there ...erm... appendage... is showing under their briefs. I noticed only skinny guys do this and I find it odd that guys that are so tiny (for lack of a better word) are really to advertise it to the young ladies.

Girls are dressing like what we used to refer to as the town whore or streetwalkers. I've seen like 8 yr olds wearing the low cut jeans where the butt checks pop out. Even more disgusting is thongs are now being made in 6-8 yr old sizes to be worn under the lowcut jeans. I suspect pedophilics are in charge of the current fashion trends. I find it appalling the boys and girls are being sexualized like this.

Not to mention I'm tired of seeing the fat hanging out over top and bottom of bras which you can see through those skintight knit tops the girls wear. Look hunny I don't want to see your bra bulge. In my day us fat girls knew to wear oversized shirts to hide the bulges.

Yesterday I saw something tha confused me more on current fashion. Course I was in the ghetto. This chicka had on boys long mesh basketball shorts waistband pulled down to butt and she had striped boxers sticking out of the top with a girls tight hoodie wearing hood up inside the building. She had a baby and wore makeup so didn't think she was lesbian. She also had several guys come up to her another sign she's straight. What kinda fashion is that? Or is that how the Mexican gangsters' chicks dress these days?

I always wear a Bonds t shirt (raglan sleeve) in black, white or grey (can do a V neck) with loose fit pants and a cardigan or overshirt if it's coolish. In winter it's same except with a skivvy and a coat. flat leather shoes like a lslip on loafer style, I hate anything lace up.

I wear polo shirts with khakis (sometimes called cargo pants), white socks, and cheap athletic shoes. When I was in HS I wore button down shirts, but with my OCD I kept fiddling with the buttons and they'd come off, so I had to switch to polos. Pretty much all the kids dressed casually in the early 90s, or they wore athletic team gear (jocks) or they'd be rockers/punks wearing rock band tees and ripped jeans. I certainly don't remember anybody dressing like they do now, unless it was at a party or to go to the lake. It's weird how sexualized young people are nowadays.

Pezar this is a thread about what WOMEN in their 30s and 0's wear not men. I don't think you'll catch me wearing cargo pants as a woman. I hate having people yell "dyke" at me in town even if I am one.

By the wear khakis and cargo pants are different. Cargo pants have the giant pockets on the legs modeled after military wear. Khakis also known as Chinos are dress slacks.

The pictorial fashion thread is for all genders...you don't have to post pics if you don't want...
Or start a guys fashion thread.
I think it is somewhat relevant because many of us might have trouble dressing properly and whatnot...
It took me YEARS to figure out how not to look like a disaster.
I refer mostly to my childhood years. I can't believe my parents would let me go to school the way I did sometimes.

Now, as an adult, on the rare occasions when I have to look semi-decent, i have a really hard time of it.

That's the problem most of us have Poopy, not knowing how bad we dress. I didn't realize I was bad until I noticed at ASD meetings that Aspies including me think that dressing up or looking spiffy meant wearing a polo shirt buttoned to top, suspenders or cowgirl outfit. Seriously we've two cowgirls in group but mostly every one is into polo shirts. Then I said to myself, "This has got to stop" at least for myself that is.

I like Lands End's women's cotton T shirts. They have a bit more style to them and the fabric has a better body to it than more the more causal T shirts one finds in any men's department. The long sleeved ones seem a bit more dressy than the short sleeved ones.

I'm not one to wear much jewelry but about 15 years ago I started collecting scarves in cotton, rayon, and silk to dress up my Land's End T shirts.

I have a very large collection of T shirts that have printed advertisements of concerts and festivals I've attended, but I never wear them unless I'm attending a concert or festival.
I started that habit about 15 years ago too.

About 15 years ago I also started wearing slacks made out of denim or other simple cotton fabrics but with an elastic waist. They seem a bit more dressy than regular jeans but not so much that I always look too dressed up.

Another reason I switched from regular blue jeans was they were difficult for me to shorten. Even when I bought "petite" sizing I'd end up needing to shorten them an inch or two
and I broke way too many needles on my sewing machine trying to match up the traditional blue jean stitching.
My elastic waisted denim slacks look fine when shortened by hand.

About twenty years ago I started making (sewing) simple skirts to wear. Even a simple T shirt looks a bit more mature when worn with a skirt.
They're a lot more comfortable in the summer than shorts and I've yet to be called a "dyke" while wearing one.

Individuals with their own minds and own ways of doing things (ideally)