When you're over 50, you don't care about the clothing you wear unless you try to impress somebody else. When you are already married you don't impress your husband, you try to impress yourself.
True or not? Maybe true to myself! I can only try to impress myself that's for sure. Over 50 is not a young age anymore. Old is the true sense of being fifty and over.
I wear clothes that are clean, smelling fresh febreze and clothes comfortable for my body. I am not being fashionable anymore, what's the point? I repeat: I want clean sanitized clothes, comfortable clothes and clothes that fit the occasion.
I wear the same kind of clothes but some of them are not old fashioned yet. I wear dress, tops or blouses and skirts or pair of pants according to the dictates of my own mind. I don't wear clothing just because I listen to the opinion of others.
I was invited to a wedding. I told my husband that I have no new clothes to wear. He said he will give me $100 to purchase a new dress for me. At my age? I have problem with the way how clothing are designed and sewn nowadays and sold in department stores they are not my kind of dress, that sometimes I end up sewing a dress for myself if I have the right chance and right time.
Anyway, I was busy with something else and no time to sew a new dress for the wedding. Besides, at my age, who cares about what I will wear for that occasion. So instead, include that money for the gift intended for the bride and groom. Wouldn't be that nice and proper?
I wore my slightly used clothes for the wedding and the newlywed couple received $500 worth of gift. I think that's great. Newlyweds in this generation need more than help and support to start a new life. Giving material gifts in the form of appliances, silverwares or dinnerware set, linens and comforters and maybe microwaves are no longer the fad in gift-giving because the receiver sometimes receive the same kind of toasters when they probably have toaster at home or to receive dinnerware set when they don't really need them because they can get by with corning wares; most of all new couples would rather have cash so that they can buy what ever they need. Cash gifts or gift cheques are better gifts to start a newlywed married life because it puts them in a straight direction of managing their own lives without parents support (?) and what have you got in your own mind?
Now if you are surprised about what those invited guests are wearing at your wedding... you'll know that they are not there to be overdressed or to call attention away from the spotlight of the bride and groom.
