Dressing for Success Over 50 Liverpool
Successful ageing comes down to looking and feeling your best. Reviewing your clothes, your shape, and your overall style will help you make sure that you always look suitably contemporary and effortlessly elegant regardless of your years.
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Dressing for Success Over 50
Perhaps you feel that now you’re over 50 you no longer need to be “successful” in the way you did when you were younger. But success comes in many forms and we believe that above all else it’s important at this time of life to age successfully. If you fail to do so and don’t take positive steps to look your best you’re inviting the world to lump you into the category of ‘old’.
Keeping up appearances is truly an apt expression – by looking stylish, elegant and meticulous, you show that you are energetic, aware and that you still value yourself and the good opinion of others.
By no means should you – man or woman - try and look 21 (or even 30!); there’s nothing more pathetic than someone who is obviously desperate to hang on to their youth and who shows it by acting and dressing totally inappropriately. It’s embarrassing beyond belief. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t wear jeans though, or leather jackets, or high heels, or whatever else you fancy. Just make sure they’re flattering and appropriate for the image you want to project.
Dressing for success means taking a long hard look at what you look like. It means analysing your lifestyle and making decisions about what types of clothes you need for the different roles and activities that add up to you. It means developing your own signature identity related to the way you would like others to perceive you. And it involves taking a critical look in your wardrobe at what you have now and how well it supports all those needs.
What you will probably find is that the way forward is to throw out quite a bit of what you’ve already got (not entirely – take what you can to the charity shop) and to make a new start. To help you, here are some suggested areas for focus:
Contemporary design
One of the biggest advantages of being older is that you’re no longer obliged to be a slavish follower of fashion. In fact, it’s far better to wear what suits you and what you feel comfortable in. But this doesn’t mean entering a time warp in which contemporary style by-passes you completely.
Colours, shapes, styles, and designs all change over the years – whether in clothes, hairstyles, or home design. So although you don’t need to reflect ‘the latest’, you do need to keep up. If your appearance and surroundings are shouting ‘eighties’ or ‘nineties’, then it’s obvious that you’re a person that just doesn’t have an interest in what’s going on today. Perhaps not a problem for you (‘there’s much more to me than that’ you say) but if you’re trying to impress other people you won’t get past first base.
Size and shape
By this time in our lives we’ve all had to come to terms with our natural shape. If you’re stocky, short-waisted or have lost muscle tone, well, so be it. You can only work with what you’ve got. But that doesn’t stop you making the most of yourself. Naturally stocky doesn’t mean fat. Short-waisted means finding clothes that suit your shape. Drooping, and losing firmness means greater attention to keeping everything under control (often by investing in good underwear).
Stylish clothes
Stylish, contemporary flattering clothes are the easiest way to demonstrate to the world that you are youthful, elegant and in your prime. There’s no need to ditch comfort entirely, it should never be your only criterion.
If you suspect that your wardrobe could do with a revamp, start looking at what other older people are wearing – particularly celebrities and media personalities (Helen Mirren, Judy Dench, Joanna Lumley, and Twiggy are the leaders, but of course there are many more. And that applies to men too – take Nigel Havers as your starting point).
Look at magazines, TV programmes and films. Go to the shops and really study what is on offer. Then, try things on – things that you wouldn’t normally choose in a million years.
Consider investing in a consultation with a colour analyst, and pay a visit to a department store which offers personal shopper facilities and see what they choose for you. You’ll be amazed!
Dressing for success over 50 requires willpower, effort and determination. The good news is that these are attributes that most older people have by the bucket load – so you just have to decide how best to use them to make the most of how you look and get the particular results you want.
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Keeping up appearances is truly an apt expression – by looking stylish, elegant and meticulous, you show that you are energetic, aware and that you still value yourself and the good opinion of others.
By no means should you – man or woman - try and look 21 (or even 30!); there’s nothing more pathetic than someone who is obviously desperate to hang on to their youth and who shows it by acting and dressing totally inappropriately. It’s embarrassing beyond belief. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t wear jeans though, or leather jackets, or high heels, or whatever else you fancy. Just make sure they’re flattering and appropriate for the image you want to project.
Dressing for success means taking a long hard look at what you look like. It means analysing your lifestyle and making decisions about what types of clothes you need for the different roles and activities that add up to you. It means developing your own signature identity related to the way you would like others to perceive you. And it involves taking a critical look in your wardrobe at what you have now and how well it supports all those needs.
What you will probably find is that the way forward is to throw out quite a bit of what you’ve already got (not entirely – take what you can to the charity shop) and to make a new start. To help you, here are some suggested areas for focus:
Contemporary design
One of the biggest advantages of being older is that you’re no longer obliged to be a slavish follower of fashion. In fact, it’s far better to wear what suits you and what you feel comfortable in. But this doesn’t mean entering a time warp in which contemporary style by-passes you completely.
Colours, shapes, styles, and designs all change over the years – whether in clothes, hairstyles, or home design. So although you don’t need to reflect ‘the latest’, you do need to keep up. If your appearance and surroundings are shouting ‘eighties’ or ‘nineties’, then it’s obvious that you’re a person that just doesn’t have an interest in what’s going on today. Perhaps not a problem for you (‘there’s much more to me than that’ you say) but if you’re trying to impress other people you won’t get past first base.
Size and shape
By this time in our lives we’ve all had to come to terms with our natural shape. If you’re stocky, short-waisted or have lost muscle tone, well, so be it. You can only work with what you’ve got. But that doesn’t stop you making the most of yourself. Naturally stocky doesn’t mean fat. Short-waisted means finding clothes that suit your shape. Drooping, and losing firmness means greater attention to keeping everything under control (often by investing in good underwear).
Stylish clothes
Stylish, contemporary flattering clothes are the easiest way to demonstrate to the world that you are youthful, elegant and in your prime. There’s no need to ditch comfort entirely, it should never be your only criterion.
If you suspect that your wardrobe could do with a revamp, start looking at what other older people are wearing – particularly celebrities and media personalities (Helen Mirren, Judy Dench, Joanna Lumley, and Twiggy are the leaders, but of course there are many more. And that applies to men too – take Nigel Havers as your starting point).
Look at magazines, TV programmes and films. Go to the shops and really study what is on offer. Then, try things on – things that you wouldn’t normally choose in a million years.
Consider investing in a consultation with a colour analyst, and pay a visit to a department store which offers personal shopper facilities and see what they choose for you. You’ll be amazed!
Dressing for success over 50 requires willpower, effort and determination. The good news is that these are attributes that most older people have by the bucket load – so you just have to decide how best to use them to make the most of how you look and get the particular results you want.
Click here to read more