Women over 40 Dressing "Young"

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In my opinion there is a fine line between dressing trendy and looking trashy when it comes to apparel choices in your 40's. I surely do not want to be my mom, wearing pants up to my boobs and having "front butt", and I have to be careful not to be able to trade clothes with my teenage daughters, as well. There is a comfortable medium between trashy and wanting to appear sexy, when your not, and looking like a frump. I tend to shop the junior section where ever I shop and sometimes wander into the women's section, only to turn and run when I see too many prints that only say, "Hey, look at me, I'm 42!". Not only do I not want to be 42, I surely do not want to look it! But I also do not want to look like I'm trying too hard, either, to look younger. If you are young, which in my eyes is anything below 40, you will soon know that being in your 40's doesn't mean you have to act like your mother did. I will forever be 20 something in my mind and it is literally hard for me to remember exactly how old I really am, because I just don't feel it. So why should I dress the part if it isn't who I am? I am comfortable in my own skin and want to be "hip" but at the same time do not want to appear to be competing with my daughters. What do you think of women that you see, who are obviously "older", and don't dress the part? What will you do when you reach your 40's?