Can I Still Wear Low-Rise Jeans?
The New York Times
A reader wants to know whether she has matured past a trend that is back in style.
The question of age-appropriate clothing and what exactly that means is complicated and highly personal, but it comes at some point for us all. I remember sitting in an Yves Saint Laurent show about a decade ago watching a model strut around in a tuxedo shorts jumpsuit and high heels and thinking first: Oh, what a great look, I should get that, it will solve all the problems of a minidress; and then, second: Actually, if middle-aged you wears that, you will be the ultimate mutton-dressed-as-lamb.
Sometimes, just because you can still wear something, doesn’t mean you should.
How you decide when those times have arrived, however, is the problem. There’s no hard and fast rule for anything in fashion any more, which is both liberating and confusing.
