<p>BunsenBurner and others: LOL, I agree, all that youth and small size wasted in terrible clothes.</p>
<p>I agree on no jeans with trainers. White bulky athletic shoes are not a good look with jean. If youāre going to do that, you might as well be comfortable and wear yoga gear with cute yoga shoes.</p>
<p>Now that I have covered the gray and dropped some weight, I am more open to embracing my inner hippy. Love paisley prints and peasant tops, but not in larger sizes.</p>
<p>Our kids cringe at my husbands choice of athletic shoes with jeans. They also hate all things Tommy Bahama on him, and think he ought to dress younger. I agree with them.</p>
<p>Okay. I havenāt read all 30+ pages of this thread, but I need advice: </p>
<p>Just turned 50. Have lost 40 pounds over the past 3 years and no longer wear ANY Mom jeans. I love the look of short (mid-calf length) suede boots worn over dark-wash skinny jeans. It looks great on my daughter, but the question is - am I too old for this? I donāt want to look ridiculous!</p>
<p>Iāll just jump in with āno way is that too young!ā Enjoy! I think if your tops are reasonable and not flowery baby-dolls you can wear what you want!! Go for it! JMO.</p>
<p>scout59: I agree ~ Enjoy!! I think inner-confidence translates to outer beauty and I sense a lot of both :)</p>
<p>I just want to send a high-five to all the women around 50 (or any age) who have lost weight recently!!! GOOD for you!</p>
<p>Do you think your kids heading off to college was any incentive? When my D left for college I felt I wanted to do something for ME (even though I still had 2 kids at home) - so I got in a great groove of eating better and exercising and lost about 15 pounds - a few of those creeped back recently, but Iāve now lost a couple again and still would like to lose even just 5 pounds more - made a WORLD of difference to me in how I felt buying clothes, trying clothes, WEARING clothes!</p>
<p>Just talked with DD in the UK, apparently the big fashion in her town is leggings as pants and knee high boots, not just with long tops or short dresses, but as pants. :eek: was her reaction, especially to two heinous examples:</p>
<p>Girl whose dorm room is too dark to realise she is wearing leggings stretched so thin that her actual skin (of her bum!) could be seen in the sunlight</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Woman 45-50 wearing leggings, boots, long shirt, but her saggy bum was, um, sagging below the long shirt.</p>
<p>I immediately thought of this thread, we have to always check the rear view, I guess!</p>
<p>I want to send a shout out to abasket on eating better and exercising! Seems to me that no matter if Iām losing weight or not, when Iām eating right and taking care of my body, I feel so much more positive about everything including how I look. I admire that you used the opportunity to do something for yourself that was so healthy and positive :)</p>
<p>You know, I wish I could really take ācreditā for losing the weight - but as it turned out, the weight just fell off because I was sick! I had undiagnosed diabetes for about 6 weeks and lost most of the weight then.</p>
<p>That being said, once I got my blood sugars under control I kept the weight off and even lost another 10 pounds or so. In my case, the diagnosis was the kick in the butt I needed to start exercising regularly. Now I ride a stationery bike for at least 30 minutes every day AND I eat much better. Even though - technically - Iām āchronically illā (and boy, do I hate hearing THAT) Iām probably in ābetterā health than I was before.</p>
<p>On the down side - no more fruit pies or potato chips. On the up side - size 6 jeans!</p>
<p>Iām older by 2 full years and have decided to live in skinny jeans and slouchy boots. You go girl!</p>
<p>Anyone notice what I call āMom of boys syndrome?ā. Its when a mother doesnāt have some archly critical daughter keeping her on track on what to wear. My sister and I were talking about it the other day.</p>
<p>Ooh, a very nice but quite frumpily dressed mom of three boys just came to mind! (But of course, moms with Ds can miss the mark in many ways, too.)</p>
<p>Apparently those moms of three boys didnāt have mine. Two of the three are quick to let me know when Iāve gone wrong. They are also quick to let me know when I got it right.</p>
<p>My boy doesnāt give me advice, but he did make fun of his Dad who keeps tucking in t-shirts - looking over at him heās done it again! Metal band t-shirt, tucked in, sighā¦</p>
<p>Momlove, thanks for the shoutout on the weight loss. My motivation was threefold; turning five-oh this year, laid-off from job=more time for excercise, and my personal response to the health insurance reform debate. Good luck to all who are waging the bulge battle.</p>
<p>3bm, mine+ H are like yoursā¦if they donāt like what I have on itās a look, hard to describe, but a look. When they like something itās āyou look nice.ā For the record, I donāt ālikeā tennis shoes except in the gym and Iāve never worn tennies with jeans. Thereās something wierd about having āwhiteā feet with dark bottoms that doesnāt sit with me. I feel like Iām walking around with headlights on my toes.</p>
<p>mathmomātoo funny on the āmetal band shirt, tucked inā ā at least your hub is trying (w/the band shirt!). My hub loves Lucky Brand, Polo ā all the expensive stuff. I canāt ever (usually) fault his style ā the bills are painful at times, thoughā¦guess itās always something!</p>
<p>Embarrassed to admit son gives me fashion advice too ā but over the past few years itās been more along the lines of ādonāt wear shorts to PTA eventsā¦try to look more like a momā¦at <em>least</em> follow the school dress code, etc.ā I donāt think Iām extreme at all, though! Nothing embellished w/Juicy, nothing inordinately low-cut. Just a generalized embarrassment from son. Heād be glad (I think?) if I wore mom jeans & a baggy sweat shirt. The cardinal rule: ādonāt stand out!ā LOL.</p>
<p>My boys have never once made a comment on anything I have worn. For that matter, neither does DH. Heās not a fashion dresser either. An engineer, he thinks clothes are for keeping your body covered and warm. Anything else is extraneous. </p>
<p>I confess that I do wear tennis shoes,dark colored onesā¦not white, with jeans. In my work (preschool teacher) itās a must. In the winter, I wear a lot of Merrells with jeans. All the other teachers wear basically the same so Iām not a style outcast,lol.
Plus dealing with plantar fasciitis puts cramp on being shoe stylish. Beware the stylish flats/sandals/flip-flops. PF is miserable. I have long narrow feet so cute flats wonāt stay on anyway.</p>
<p>While I occasionally do wear my Puma sneakers with jeans ( but usually not for anything more than the running to the grocery store type of errand) , I wouldnāt wear my clunky running sneakers with anything but exercise clothes.</p>