Age-Appropriate Clothing

You can be trendy at 46 or like an out-of-tune train wreck at 26. Age has nothing to do with physical shape, spirit, or the desire to move forward and stay vital.

Having great personal style is more about understanding yourself and being realistic about how you look. Any style can be tweaked to look great on you - it only takes a pragmatic glance in the mirror. Modify trends to remain modern and understand your fashion limits.

If classic is your thing, keep it fresh. “Today it’s appropriate to wear jeans with vintage pieces and evening bag”, says Gucci designer Frida Giannini. Classic doesn’t have to mean plain - it’s all in the pieces you go for and how you put them together.

Appear professional when the occasion calls for it and look stylishly casual for the weekend. But never fall prey to being caught in a fashion rut because you are afraid to experiment with something new — that will surely put years on your appearance.

As a business person, you want to appear office appropriate for the type of business that you are in. No matter what your profession, you have to avoid wearing overtly teeny bopper clothes. Avoid exposing too much flesh. Keep your look pulled together and you’ll be perceived the same way. If your clothing style is all over the place, you’ll be perceived as scattered.

Now let’s get back to short skirts, the most obvious article of clothing with an expiration date. They are back in, but the question to ask is how do your legs look? Are they in shape to stand a shorter skirt, with or without the help of dark slimming tights? A woman over 50 or 60 who still has it going on can look stunning in a skirt about an inch or so above her knee— that skirt length would offer the feeling of legginess without appearing like she’s stealing her wardrobe from the local dorm.

Know the skin you are in and accept it. When it comes to fashion trends, become a master at tweaking them. If there’s trend that you love, but honestly feel like you’ve missed its prime— skip it. When a style trend reappears that you have clearly worn 15 or 20 years ago, rethink it and reinterpret it with just one addition to your wardrobe rather than the full-on retro effect.

Keep up your skin care regime, don’t forget an up to date haircut, stay true to your personal style, and not take yourself too seriously. If you take care of yourself, stay healthy and fit, and maintain an open attitude about life there really isn’t that much of a style difference in what a modern 35 or 45 year-old could wear - it really is the cut that’s tweaked to suit a changing figure. As we mature simple, well-cut clothes are better than fussy layers and crazy prints. Who says you need to always dress classically when your style is a bit more downtown or bohemian? You need to dress in a way that flatters your figure and individual style, not your friend’s personal taste.

Tasks to be done after reading text 1:

I. Find in the text antonyms to the following words:

old-fashioned, fantastic, dowdy, apart, formal, to hide, long, far-away, to reject, to hate, ill.

II. Find in the text English equivalents to the following word-combinations:

не имеет ничего общего с, желание двигаться вперед, взгляд в зеркало, оставаться модным, того требует случай, экспериментировать с чем-то новым, отказаться от ношения, вас будут воспринимать, оставайтесь верными вашему личному стилю, меняющаяся фигура, хорошо-скроенная одежда, подчеркивать фигуру.

III. Finish the sentences:

1. Age has nothing to do with….

2. Modify trends to….

3. Appear professional when… and look stylishly casual for….

4. As a business person, you want to appear….

5. No matter what your profession, you have to avoid wearing….

6. As we mature simple, well-cut clothes are better than….

7. You need to dress in a way that….

IV. Answer the questions about the text:

1. Is it easy to have a great personal style? What should you do to have it?

2. Can you look stylish in classical clothes?

3. What should you avoid to appear office appropriate?

4. Is it acceptable for a woman over 50 or 60 to wear a mini-skirt?

5. What else accept wearing stylish clothes should you do to look good?

Text 2

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