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The question of age in relation to mini skirt wearing depends largely upon how well an individual is personally aging. While one fifty year old woman may still have a great figure and fabulous legs, another may still have a bright smile and twinkling eyes, but not such great legs.

What we find acceptable fashion wise bears a direct relation to societies idea of beauty as a whole. We tend to think that the beauty of a woman who is past a certain age lies more within her grace and wisdom than on her outer appearance.

It is fair to say that certain women are breaking the mold by staying younger looking and fitter for far longer than their predecessors. For them, mini skirt wearing may happily go on for far longer than for those who have a more average physique and general appearance.

But if we are dealing with a typically average person with regards to aging and mini skirt wearing there are general, normally unwritten fashion rules, which apply.

If you have reached beyond your thirties and have extensive sun damage to your skin, covering up your legs is a good idea if you want to look your best. This is also true if you have unsightly thread veins running across them.

However, whatever your age and state of skin, you can still wear a mini skirt with leggings or tights if your legs have a good shape to them and you feel confident enough to do so.

It is perhaps, the length of the mini skirt to be worn that may have more significant bearing on a persons age than the wearing of a mini skirt itself.

The one aspect of aging that a person has on their side is the wisdom and knowledge about fashion that they have gained through the years.

An older woman tends to have a better idea of what ultimately suits her and is far more likely to be able to put this into practice than a younger person who is just beginning experimenting with garments.

For this reason a seasoned wearer of the classic mini skirt will be aware that a very short mini is best left to those who are in their twenties or late teenage tears.

A mini skirt which ends just above the knee area can appear far more sophisticated and when worn with classic accessories can look wonderful, even on a woman in her thirties, forties or fifties.

It is rare to see a woman in her sixties wearing a mini skirt. I don't think that happens by accident. Most of the time it is because a woman in her sixties or above knows that what flatters her best is style, tailoring and certain colors depending on her skin tone, not a little skirt from which her aging legs appear out of for all the world to see.

I would like to say that age should not limit a wearers fashion choices and that we can all go on wearing little shorts and mini skirts for as long as we live. However, although I would like to say that, in reality I cant.

As soon as my own legs appear unattractive I intend to cover them up so that no-one knows and to make the best of whatever attributes I have left which are still great.

In the same way, I don't want to see bits of other people that have faded from glory under my nose. This of course, doesn't always have to relate to age as plenty of people tend to display wobbly flesh, orange peel skin, sun-damaged wrinkles and goodness knows what else. I just think that as we age we should know better.

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