Katie,
I'm lovin' this thread. :Retro tongue:
I just lucked out with the avatar pic. I have other photos where I look older. Some, alot older.
I also think, people often get surprised to hear someone is 50 or over, because we have an outdated idea of what 50 looks like.
LOL When I was 49, I remember for the first time in my life really dreading my next birthday.
Eventually realized that I had this idea that 50 meant hair in a bun, wearing sensible shoes, and a cardigan buttoned to the neck and sitting in a rocker.
Some image I got in my head as a kid I guess. Funny too because people can wear their hair back and up, say in a bun; they can wear flats or oxfords; they can do up their cardie; they can even sit in a rocker ... and not be old. Or look old.
But this image I had was definitely an old doddery, wrinkly, bent over crone. At fifty.
I started looking around at other women I know who were my age or older, between 50 and 60 ... realized none of them fit my stereotyped image. And the ones that looked old ... most of them had looked old at 35.
Fifty year old women are not the same now as they were a couple generations ago. They are not wearing old lady clothes because they are "of a certain age". They are wearing the same jeans and sweaters (at least I and the people I've known) do.
None of which has much to do with this thread.

Just my thoughts on getting 'way old.
