Monday, April 28, 2014

Dressing your age


Thought I'd be writing about older ladies, didn't you? Actually, this post is about young starlets and how the Hollywood publicity machine pushes us to accept teens as twenty-somethings, twenty-somethings as women in their thirties, and forgets about most women in their forties altogether.

Hate to sound like some crazy, crusty conservative old lady, but these girls make me frightened and double my urge to hide the girl-child away until she's 24.

Check this out:
Hailee Steinfeld is 17. This dress is cute and almost perfectly age appropriate, yet somehow she manages to look way older (Keira Knightley, just for reference's sake is 29), maybe because of the super high heels she's wearing, or her smug experssion:


Or so: this is Kiernan Shipka, who has been vocal about her interest in fashion. The dress is lovely, and completely age appropriate. The shoes are nicely matched, but again, why would a 14 year old wear such a grown up shoe???

Finally, Chloe Moretz, age 17. This kid wants IT so bad, she reeks of want.  I honestly have a hard time looking at her.

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