Distressed Jeans Over 40?
“Freedom’s just another word for…nothing left to lose.”
We went to see A Night With Janis Joplin show last week and loved it.
The show features many different female blues singers from the past and some of the best known Janis Joplin songs. If you like the blues this show is great.
I was spurred on by the Janis boho style when I came across this knit vest while thrifting.
I saw these distressed jeans, or very similar ones when I was in NYC in Sept last year with Sylvia in a Ralph Lauren window display and fell in love with them. When I recently spotted these heavily patched and reworked distressed jeans I couldn’t pass them up.
I don’t care that as a woman well over forty I’m not supposed to wear distressed jeans anymore.
“Desperate, trying too hard, ridiculous, sloppy”…you name it, distressed jeans provoke some serious commentary from the forty plus community.
I will admit that when I saw the jeans I heard some nagging female voices in the back of my head insisting I was too old to wear these.
I dislike those voices.
I want them out of my head.
They don’t belong there anymore than the voices that tell me I’m too heavy.
When I saw the jeans they spoke to my inner voice, the one that defines how I see myself rather than how others see me. The one that makes me happy and feel good about myself and doesn’t pay attention to the passing years but rather to the reflection of myself in my mind’s eye, the way I see myself.
Style is personal.
Style is subjective.
Style isn’t defined by other people.
Style is how you feel on the inside, reflected on the outside.
Distressed Jeans Over 40
It just so happens that my very favourite pair of jeans of all time are distressed.
My favourite distressed jeans happen to fit me better than any other pair of jeans I own.
There isn’t an age expiry date sewn on the inside of them.
I know distressed jeans aren’t everyone’s cup of tea.
Just remember…
Style is in the eye of the beholder.
And that includes distressed jeans.
Do you ever hear other people’s voices in your head telling you what you should or shouldn’t wear?
Do they bother you or help you?
Linking up with Visible Monday, I Will Wear What I Like Throw Back Thursday
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Spring Style Picks I’m Loving Lately
Spring is coming! Oh yeah baby!
The days are getting longer, it’s starting to warm up, I’m getting pumped!
Soon I won’t need to wear a hat, gloves, boots and a heavy coat. People might actually get to see what I’m wearing.
In my anticipation of the arrival of Spring I’ve created a Spring Style Polyvore set to sell myself some stuff I don’t need.
This Spring fashion set is the equivalent to spotting the first Robin of Spring for shopaholic fashion obsessed bloggers and fashionistas.
My Spring Style Picks
1. Floral Dress 2. Orange Handbag 3. Gold Cuff 4. Deco Gold Cuff 5. Mustard Wedges 6. Denim Tote 7. Jewelled Drop Earrings 8. Striped Maxi Dress 9. Striped Sandals
I’d wear the floral “dress” with cream pants, jeans or leggings.
Really it should be called a tunic. It is too short to be considered a dress unless you are two years old and wearing underpants that look like this,
Notice how cute those folds and chubby legs looked when you were that young? For those of us that are lucky enough to grow old we get to revert back to having folds again, with one subtle difference, we call now them wrinkles and they aren’t considered cute anymore.
I’m falling hard for that green maxi dress. I’m holding my breath hoping they still have my size when it goes on sale.
If I had lobes that enjoyed wearing ear bling I’d be picking up those gorgeous jewelled drop earrings on sale as well.
They are stunning.
My ears are wimps. They take after my feet I’m afraid. Not to mention the fact that I have to re-pierce my ear every time I want to wear pierced earrings.
#annoying
#sonotworththepain
Do any of these Spring fashion items tickle your fancy?
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