Your "youthful and quirky" phrase reminded of the running joke among friends. We'd noticed that for many seniors their awareness of trends seems to abruptly halt somewhere around 30ish. From that point forward they set anchor at whatever style was popular then and never budge. Or they decide to revert to the clothes of their youth and refuse to give them up. Which is why you get 70 yo women dressing like it's still the 1960s, or still wearing blue eyeshadow and harshly pink or orange lipstick, or still wearing gloves and pillbox hats.

So back to the "youthful, quirky" part. We were trying to figure out what our generation's anchor point would be, where we'd grind to a halt and cease to acknowledge the passage of time. And ended up with a whole bunch of senior citizens wearing raver style or dressing in grunge. That image still kills me. A whole bunch of geriatric foxes with black eyeliner and ripped jeans, or pacifiers and bright colored wide-legged pants. Instead of tinting our hair blue, we'll dye it bright pink and green. ;)

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