Can't I "Like" Gaylene's comment?

Suz, precisely my point. I think like you. I had to look up beatle boot. Only to realize I have a pair of flat ones I adore and do wear a lot. I didn't think they were deemed "old": to me, they are very young and fresh! Pearls: I can't wear them anymore (boo).

Janet has a point: how to dress you without looking like a mutton dressed as a lamb, to paraphrase a certain other fashion website...

And on Suz's second post: so true! I inherited some of my grandmother clothes - she had made herself - and have a hard time wearing it regularly, because it is made for a lifestyle that isn't mine. My grandmother was a teacher, like me. She did teach in various parts of the country, actually, but even then, she traveled with old style suitcases and embarked on trains / boats / planes donning full three piece tweed suits - and the corresponding Richelieu Oxfords, square silk scarves, lamb leather gloves and (now vintage) handbags. But I can't establish a parallel with my grandmother the way you do. On Sundays, she went to church: I go to the gym. She taught as an authoritative figure within the "teaching paradigm": I am a child of the "learning paradigm", dressing accordingly when guiding and accompanying students, which means wearing more pants and jeans, things in which I can lean, bend, kneel, move, jump; she traveled in style: I travel in comfort, because I won't get any time to recuperate + my body typically already has a workout or two running through its vein it needs to recover from, so I will want the snooze. Then again, a snooze while travelling was unthinkable in my grandmother's times,but today, it's perfectly possible. So all this to say I am not sure about the basics for certain tasks not changing. I think they do!

Have to say Angie rocks that twin set! I don't think my figure or style would suit a twin set so I suppose what people wear is more to do with lifestyle, what they suit and their personality rather than age. I have pearls and I'll wear them with a structured dress for a good occasion.

Oh, Krish, I agree absolutely -- the items we need to wear do change. I wasn't all that clear in what I said. I think the conditions of work -- even the same work -- have changed, so our needs have changed as well.

My point was more that what unites us with our grandmothers is a need to dress for the lives we actually lead. The specific clothes that worked for them will not necessarily work for us (even if we do the same kind of work) but the need to dress for real conditions remains.

Yet twinsets can be fashionable (as Angie demonstrates!). So really, it's all about authenticity.

I like twinsets. I forgot to mention that in the thread we were having a little while back on 90's fashion - that's something I liked wearing then, and would potentiallly wear again (and yes I know that they were around in eras previous to the 90's too).

I definitely think it's a matter of personal style , rather than age. I loved twinsets when I was younger , but to conservative for me these days. In my 20's and 30's I loved them, with my 20lb middle age weight gain, forget about it, lol ...
I think watching my son, who I say has always had an "old soul", rocking his classics and mixing them with trends has completely blown any idea of classics beng reserved for older generation.