aging grace

so i needed a new pair of jeans. i seriously haven't had a new pair for 5 years. and they wear out, you know. not to mention that fashions change.

but the dilemma in buying new jeans when you are my age is that you don't want to make it look like you're trying to be younger than you are. at the same time you really don't want to have to be relegated to "mom" or grandma jeans either.

so do you go with the leggings type jeans that are in style or the skinny jeans? or do you try to "rock" the mom-jeans that seem to be the alternative? you have to have jeans. they are an essential of a wardrobe in this day and age. unless you're an old man. old men just look stupid in jeans, i think. they should just wear slacks unless they farm or something. (-:

anyway, as i said, i really really hate it when women try to dress younger than they are. i don't even like it when women over 45 or so keep their hair too long. i mean really? who the heck are we kidding? long flowing locks? yuck. we are not rapunzel and we are not 20 or 30. or even 40. we are in our 50's now. we shouldn't pretend we're young. we just look stupid when we do.

but at the same time, i don't want to dress in amish fashion either and i can't always be dressed up. i have to do "casual" sometimes, because my life is- for the most part- casual. and part of the problem for me is that the skinny leggings/jeans actually fit me decently. i'm in shape enough that i don't have a muffin top or anything. and they are stretchy- so they are crazy comfortable. i put them on and thought "to heck with it, these feel like wearing my skin. i really want to buy them."

so, what to do, what to do?

so the sales settled it for me. cheap prices allowed me to delay the decision and bring it on home with me. i bought two pairs. i bought a nice pair of bootcuts that weren't too "mommy" or too youngish for most of the time and i bought a pair of legging jeans, figuring i could wear them about the apartment at the very least. because they were really really comfy being all stretchy and all. i'll try to never wear them in public, so as not to creep anyone (besides me) out or anything.