I have to share this! I was at the grocery store and a guy (30-something, I think) taps me on the shoulder and says, Can I pay you a quick compliment? Then he tells me I'm wearing awesome boots. Pleased, I thank him. We go separate ways. Then I run into the same guy in the coffee aisle. He smiles, then leans over slightly as he passes and says, conspiratorially, "And the lady in the boots is very sexy, too". I think I turned three shades of red, but what a nice compliment.
This is the interesting thing: I was not wearing a single revealing over officially sexy item. I was not trying to dress provocatively, although I had in fact just come back from a lunch date with my husband, so I'd made an effort to look nice (and I was wearing fire-engine red lipstick, something I don't usually do in the daytime). But no cleavage, no legs, no bare shoulders even. I thought this was relevant to the recent discussions about dressing your age or looking your age. And also, what people perceive as "sexy".
For the record, I was wearing my fitted waistcoat over a lightweight white shirt with subtle pinstripes (it's drizzly and freezing in Vancouver today) with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and skinny blue jeans tucked into these ankle boots:
