How old is too old ?

[Diamondback]

fftopic: :

lol lol lol lol I know but it just took so many sentences to describe one word.

What, you didn't know? If the other guy's tied up listening to a talker carrying on in verbose fashion, he's too busy to notice anything else, like an ambush going on around him... lol

 

[$ally]

Red Shoe Diaries

A friend of mine just bought these at payless last week:
http://www.payless.com/Catalog/ProductDetail.aspx?&TLC=Womens&SLC=WomensDress&BLC=WomensDressSandals&Width=Regular&ItemCode=56602&LotNumber=056244&Type=Adult&Popularity=440&DescriptiveColor=Red
They are so adorable, but I can't bring myself to buy the red version.

 

[Viola]

I think red shoes often are just what an outfit needs... but I don't know that I'm confident enough to carry it off. And my friends have warned me off because of the same imagery.

Of course you don't need to be wearing red shoes to hear from the Sidewalk Critique, I swear sometimes its any girl in a skirt, or any girl, end of sentence. :rage:

 

[$ally]

Nothing looks trashier than a grown up women who does her clothing shopping in the juniors section! The clothing is so... *searching for the right word* ...CHEAP and DISPOSABLE looking. I think they get a certain amount of satisfaction from the fact that they can still fit in the clothing. Just because it fits you, that doesn't mean you should wear it! That kind of clothing only serves to make the wearer looked even more aged.

I agree, skimpy and trendy doesn't tend to be flattering over forty. Tight mini skirts are for the under 25 set. In Bus Stop Woman's defence, age really does sneak up on you. I remember looking at my picture one day, thinking "When did I get all those chins? What is that white stuff in my hair? Why is there a road map on my forehead?"

 

[RedHotRidinHood]

Sally dear, let's go get us some of those CUTE red shoes, and wear them with big poofy skirts and cute blouses. I don't care what anyone says-I LOVE red shoes and would wear them happily. I will wear them if I want. I know what and who I am, and if other people want to judge me just for my shoes, well, then.....they can cheerfully apply their Puritanically puckered lips to my somewhat amply endowed backside.
Let's boogie.

 

[jamespowers]

Of course you don't need to be wearing red shoes to hear from the Sidewalk Critique, I swear sometimes its any girl in a skirt, or any girl, end of sentence. :rage:

You really have to stay away from those construction sites.
Seriously, I don't see that all that often around here. Looking is one thing but saying something is another.

Regards,

J

 

[Diamondback]

Ladies, I'm just going to say, "as long as you can pull it off with style and confidence, and without violating applicable laws, wear whatever you want and to Hell with the critics."

I know, sounds like the philosophy of the fortysomethings previously cited, but the keyword was: "with style", which they obviously don't have.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."--Oscar Wilde

RHRH, well said.

 

[Paisley]

I have a very dear friend, Michaela, a punk rock girl. Wears a little mixnmatch vintage once in a while. About a decade ago when I was living in the UNSALUBRIOUS and FREQUENTED BY UNSALUBRIOUS PERSONS OF BOTH ORIGINAL AND NEWLY MINTED FEMALE EXTRACTION WHO PERFORM UNSALUBRIOUS ACTS FOR CASH tenderloin, she used to visit me, wearing red shoes, fairly wild makeup, and stockings; naturally by the time she got to my door, she was in a fairly bad mood from the (honestly made) ASPERSIONS on her CHARACTER she heard on the streets and sidewalks of the neighborhood.

Another time she and I were in a bar, the Ha Ra, and I struck up a conversation with an old man; he said to me, "she's pretty. Where did you get her?" which years later I realized was NOT an innocent comment.

It's all in the red shoes (and, in her case, the wild makeup, dyed hair, stockings, and various other attention-getting articles of clothing).

The other accoutrements might have had something to do with it. I rather doubt that red pumps with a navy suit or red loafers with jeans would have quite the same effect.

BTW, the bus woman wasn't even wearing red shoes. They were black.

 

[Viola]

You really have to stay away from those construction sites.
Seriously, I don't see that all that often around here. Looking is one thing but saying something is another.

Regards,

J

I wouldn't care about just looks.

Its more downtown but even just around the neighborhood its guys in trucks and stuff who think pedestrians really want to hear their take.]

Also, james, they're probably around, but you may not be their market. lol

 

[$ally]

Sally dear, let's go get us some of those CUTE red shoes, and wear them with big poofy skirts and cute blouses. I don't care what anyone says-I LOVE red shoes and would wear them happily. I will wear them if I want. I know what and who I am, and if other people want to judge me just for my shoes, well, then.....they can cheerfully apply their Puritanically puckered lips to my somewhat amply endowed backside. Let's boogie.

If they elderly chicks can have a Red Hat Society, we can have a red shoe one.
A few months ago I wore a very low cleavage red 30s style shirred dress, with matching red rosette purse, red jewelry, red lipstick, red fingernails... and black stillies. Everything else was the exact same shade of deep red too. I have a complete emotional block with the red shoes. It's weird, because as a teen I occasionally wore some very obnoxious risque clothing with some pretty silly hair-dos. Yet, never red shoes.

 

[Diamondback]

Mr. Powers, I do believe my IT geek would say you just got "PWN3D".lol

Nice hit, Miss V!

Oh, Ms. Sally, consult your sig--gotta live dangerously sometime, or how do you know you've really lived?

 

[$ally]

Oh, Ms. Sally, consult your sig--gotta live dangerously sometime, or how do you know you've really lived?

Unless I start wearing red shoes, I'm only existing?

 

[Diamondback]

Never said that, just saying ya gotta say "to heck with the risk" every now and again...

(Then again, I am an adrenaline-junkie...)

If it's something you want to do just for the sake of doing it once, as long as it's not illegal (or only mildly so like minor speeding, lol)...

 

[Zemke Fan]

Hey, JP...

You really have to stay away from those construction sites.
J

Do you remember the movie City Slickers? The scene where Billy Crystal is in his kid's room trying to follow the construction guy who pulled the 2,000 lb girder of the lady with the Bloomingdale's bag??? Rented that one with my 18 year old son the other night along with Ferris Bueller's Day Off... My son can STILL recite that whole scene verbatim...

Value your youth, kids... And DON'T do drugs!

 

[$ally]

I was yanking your chain, busting your chops, Diamondback. I just don't see red shoes as risky or life enhancing. It's not a color I wear much anyway.

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These women do NOT look over 50!
http://www.redhatsociety.com/info/howitstarted.html
I like their rules
"The spirit of the Red Hat Society forbids rules, per se. There is, however, ONE inflexible guideline that we must insist upon: You must be a woman of 50 or over and you must attend functions in full regalia of red hat and purple outfit. Ladies are strongly encouraged to follow these color guidelines, and to NOT wear purple/red until they have reached THE BIRTHDAY. This adds an element of fun to aging, which we think is invaluable to women in our society who have learned to dread aging and avoid it at all costs. We believe that aging should be something anticipated with excitement, not something to dread."
AMEN MY SISTERS! I wonder if I'll be one of them someday?

 

[$ally]

WARNING by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

 

[Diamondback]

And on my previous commentary and your yanking my chain:

lol Says a guy who has actually "lived" less in nearing three decades than most people have by age 20, frequently by 15!

 

[$ally]

And on my previous commentary and your yanking my chain:Says a guy who has actually "lived" less in nearing three decades than most people have by age 20, frequently by 15!

Thank you for your encouragement though. If red were my thing, I would buy the shoes in that color. I only wear (or do) things that are comfortable and natural for who I am and what I like.
"To thine own self be true"

 

[Diamondback]

Best advice anyone ever gave, or received, right there.

 

[Edward]

A fine example of linguistic virtuosity, my good man! BRAVO.

Thank you, sir.

As to your friend's experience.... it was quite possibly the stockings that did it - at least, if it was obvious somehow that she was wearing stockings as opposed to tights (pantyhose?). Alas rather than being viewed as the fitting undergarments of a classy lady, all too many folks still seem to think these have some cheap and trashy association.