should i stay or should i go?
By Elizabeth
@Poppylicious (11133)
November 23, 2016 2:30am CST
It's funny how our tastes change as we grow older.
At the moment I am very much into patterns. I don't really know if this purely a fashion thing or just an age thing. Is my mind being saturated by subliminal patterns in the media and shops, or have I simply reached that stage of my life where woolly orange teacosies on my head is just, well, normal?
As a younger person I used to wonder how glamorous, beautiful girls could transform into tofthn ...
And that is what happens when you fall asleep whilst typing in bed. I have no idea what a tofthn is, but I sincerely hope it isn't a rude sweary word in some ancient {or non-ancient} language. If it is, please accept my apologies ... my subconscious brain must have been enjoying a moment of freedom!
I'm not entirely sure where I was heading with this sleep-inducing post. Maybe I was considering how beautiful and stylish young women become frumpy old women, with blue rinses and Paisley dresses from a long forgotten era. Not that there is anything wrong with Paisley. I am partial to a bit of it myself.
But ... patterns. I am really loving clashing patterns. I think I'm supposed to; the shops are telling me that retro pattern clashing is all the rage this season.
Either that, or I'm going blind.
Welcome to The End of my rambling post. You may now continue with your day.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
23 Nov 16
I think times they are a changin'. I'm not sure glamorous, beautiful girls do change into frumpy old women these days. They're more likely to turn into elegant, beautiful older women.
I'm amazed when I see photos of my mum and her sisters when they were about 50 (approx. 30 years ago). They looked old and they dressed old. My wife and her sisters are all in that age bracket now and they look fantastic. I just think people, and women in particular, look after themselves much better these days and have a much more youthful outlook on life.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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24 Nov 16
Don't spoil my dreams ... I really want to be an unfashionably frumpy old woman!
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@LadyDuck (459122)
• Switzerland
24 Nov 16
@Poppylicious You are right, I have seen young girls dressed like "nuns".
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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24 Nov 16
And, some people dress old, even when they're in their teens. So actually, it all balances out. :)
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@xFiacre (12628)
• Ireland
23 Nov 16
@poppylicious Now you've got me thinking of an elderly friend, a Dame of the Empire and eccentric academic, who in her late eighties still dresses like a teenager and uses current teen speak.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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24 Nov 16
An elderly lady talking like a teen?! That most be rather gigglesome!
@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
27 Nov 16
A privilege of old age is to be in the world any way you'd like. Myself, I'm into comfortable clothes in my old age, so I guess, frumpy. But I don't care and I don't have to.
As far as patterns, I'm not sure; I tend to get entranced by bright sparkly objects. I think of it as new areas of my brain auto-opening to show me things I've been —in my youth— too busy to notice.
