How Old is Too Old to Wear a Mini Skirt?
August 10, 2008 by sri harsha
Published in Style
The age limits for wearing mini skirts are explained.
There is a no particular age limit to wear a mini skirt unless you are in a good shape. But for 40+ people they may look awkward, however good shape they have. It certainly is an age limit to wear mini skirts. After 40 one can not wear minis so freely as they get age conscious.
If you have good legs, then even at the age of 35 or 40 minis look fabulous on you. But if you are not in good shape or you don’t have good legs, they don’t look good on you even if you are in 20s. So, having a great body and good skin are also the factors to look at when you are wearing a mini skirt.
Though the topic depends and varies on everyone’s perception, one should keep in mind that with age one should increase the length of the skirts they wear. A teenager can wear a short skirt revealing the thighs. But with passing time and years they don’t look as good on her as they earlier used to be. The length should be increased to cover the thighs a bit with every passing year.
With changing the length of the skirts, one can wear till their knee length at the age of 30 to 345 years. But after that the skirts length should come down to below knee level. But if you don’t show so much age on your face and are in great shape, these restrictions can be a bit changed as you may look 30 in 40+.
So, besides the age, the shape of the body and the skin conditions greatly affect the way you look in a skirt. So, an age of around 30 may be OK for wearing a mini skirt. But if you have a good body and you don’t show much age then wearing mini skirt till 40 would be OK. But after that even if you have a great body and skin, it is not so advisable to wear minis. Instead you can wear long skirts.
The other important thing to consider is maturity. If you are matured enough to understand the dressing sense, you obviously don’t go for mini skirts once you think you are too old for them. Though people say you are not too old for doing anything, it doesn’t apply to the dresses you wear. Besides this you may not be so comfortable wearing minis when your kids are grown up.
There may be some people who wear the minis even at around 50 years. But you may not like them wearing minis. The same applies to you. If you wear them at an old age, others may think the same about you.
So, the base line is mini skirts are good to wear till 40 if you are maintaining a good body and skin. But after that a mini skirt is a big NO-NO for you. So, to wear a mini skirt till 40 you must take care of your body and you should pamper your skin.
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