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At what age
At what age should women stop shopping in the juniors section?
I ask because I'm doing a little spring looking, and I'm trying to look through the non juniors stuff, but frankly, it sucks. It's boring and lame and not at all what I would wear. But if I shop in the juniors section, I feel like a dumbass. What's a non old, non young gal to do?
I ask because I'm doing a little spring looking, and I'm trying to look through the non juniors stuff, but frankly, it sucks. It's boring and lame and not at all what I would wear. But if I shop in the juniors section, I feel like a dumbass. What's a non old, non young gal to do?
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Re: At what age
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However, I do think that very-much-older women who look their age and shop at DEB and Forever 21 should start dressing a little closer to their age.
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I think the problem is, that they're all very "mom" styles for people in my age group, and I'm not a mom and I know that there are lots of women my age who aren't either. I mean, I can shop at BR and Jcrew, but sometimes I can't/don't want to spend that much money.
I agree with brooklyn...there are a lot of really cute and tasteful things you can buy in the junior's section or junior's stores. I think it's more of a question of knowing what to wear, rather than where to shop.
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They just don't fit my body anymore.
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And then there's my sister who is very curvaceous and the clothes in the junior section just aren't cut at all to fit her body like the women's cuts are. She'll try because the clothes can sometimes be cute and age appropriate, but they just don't fit. Fit is the key for me I think.
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I'll sometimes buy jeans in the JR's section, like Levi's, and occasionally sweaters or tank tops to wear under button down shirts.
I'm definitely not one of those people who shop in that section b/c I can't deal with getting older lol.
I'm 46 and sometimes shop in juniors. I'm small (5 feet and usually between 100 and 105 pounds) and juniors jeans, pants, and shorts tend to fit me better, sometimes sweaters too. On the whole juniors fit me much better than petites, which almost never work right for me. I shop in juniors and misses, depending on what I'm looking for.
Have you tried stores like Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor LOFT? I shop there and I think it's trendy but it's in normal woman sizes. Ann Taylor is expensive (to me...) but LOFT isn't.
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For example, I'm 29 and pretty much past the point of wearing super low-rise jeans with mega flare bottoms and the camis that are meant for a junior-sized chest with cleavage. So I'll stay away from that stuff, but the junior department at Kohl's has a lot of cute, affordable blouses that I can wear to work with some good quality pants. I find that they are more fitted too with darts, etc., whereas the ones in the Misses section (even the Vera Wang stuff) are shapeless and weird.
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But I think putting age caps on a time when you "shouldn't" shop there is silly. Should you LOOK like a juniors section threw up on you, in trends for 15 year olds? No. But if you want to buy things that will still look ok on an older person there, I don't see why that should be a problem. It would be silly to say "No I can't get this thing I really like" just because it came out of one section and not the other. Says who?
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I think you might have better luck finding cute clothes when you get to Sweden. I'd pass 2 H&M's and a half dozen other young (but not too young) women's clothing stores just on my 15 minute walk from class to the train station, and Sweden had a lot of the same shops as Copenhagen. It was all reasonably priced; I bought a ton of clothes while I was there.
I'm going to check my closet and see what the names of those other stores were . . .
But still, the shopping going to be way better in Sweden, methinks.
We don't really have 'juniors' here (thus my question on what the go was with the odd sizing when we were in the states! haha). Everything I bought whilst over there was adults, but over here in target we do have a section called 'hot options' which (though running in the same sizes as adult, but slightly different cuts) is geared towards teens to twenty-somethings. I still shop in the hot options section if I'm in Target, because their adult stuff seems to be designed for those around 40, and in addition nothing really fits me right in those 'adult' styles because the cuts are different and I'm rather small.
In every other store, I shop in the adult section, and there's quite a few stores that I won't even enter because they are far too 'young'. I mainly shop in places like Portmans (http://www.portmans.com.au/) that are geared at women aged around 20-35.
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