Does wearing vintage Get you noticed by the opposite sex?

[rue]

I went out for a few drinks with a couple of male pals the other night. I did actually bring up this very subject. (After a few drinks of course'in vino veritas' and all that...). For the record, I'm single and have been for a long time. I do get compliments from the opposite sex, on the whole they tend to be either senior citizens, or chaps who are into the whole vintage thing, although the senior citizens are in the majority as there are very few people who dress like me where i live.

The upshot was my gay friend thinks i'm fabulous and i can do no wrong and all the men out there must be mad, (gotta love the guy)! My other friend said although he liked my look, it was a little intimidating, as i look so well groomed all the time and perhaps certain guys would be put off by that or assume that i was high maintenance or even out of their league. He was rather sheepish during the conversation and i appreciated his honesty, but it did make me think of course about how other people percieve me. I for one don't see myself as this unapproachable, fierce creature.

Sorry to go a little off topic, but i thought i would share my recent findings.

Newly single myself... I often wonder if that's why men my age look but don't talk to me.... maybe I'm too high maintenance looking. Either that or they really do think I'm 'bats', as my mother says

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I often wonder if that's why men my age look but don't talk to me....

It's not you. It's that, "statistically speaking", men of that age are not looking for women their same age.

 

[rue]

It's not you. It's that, "statistically speaking", men of that age are not looking for women their same age.

Great....

 

[Miss sofia]

So that's why all the pensioners are giving me the glad eye then!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Great....

Lame but true. Midlife crisis and all that.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

So that's why all the pensioners are giving me the glad eye then!

Correct!

 

[rue]

So it's either go really old or go young.... no thanks.

 

[Miss sofia]

Seconded!!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

So it's either go really old or go young.... no thanks.

Men in their 20s are crazy about women older than them. Avid learners, too, who can still be 'trained'.

 

[sheeplady]

So it's either go really old or go young.... no thanks.

Well, there's always the option of both.

 

[rue]

Men in their 20s are crazy about women older than them. Avid learners, too, who can still be trained.

I dated someone ten years younger than me when I was 30... I was bored immediately.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Well, there's always the option of both.

At the same time?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I dated someone ten years younger than me when I was 30... I was bored immediately.

That's because he was 20. Try late 20s.

 

[rue]

Well, there's always the option of both.

Oh my sheeplady! lol

 

[Miss sofia]

I think i need the smelling salts!!

Actually i have successfully dated younger guys, but ended up feeling a little like Mummy. I wouldn't rule it out again though. I'd have to get some seriously good lighting going on in the boudoir though. At my age one needs all the help one can get!

 

[rue]

Actually i have successfully dated younger guys, but ended up feeling a little like Mummy.

Exactly.... I already raised two children.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

.
Sounds like the potential benefits (energy and vigor, a willingness to learn and to please) might not outweigh the potential drawbacks (immaturity, a generation gap between the two of you).

 

[rue]

.
Sounds like the potential benefits (energy and vigor, a willingness to learn and to please) might not outweigh the potential drawbacks (immaturity, a generation gap between the two of you).

Yes, but ask me in another 6 months and I might change my mind

 

[Miss sofia]

True Marc, let's never say never and not limit our options...

 

[LocktownDog]

Exactly. My 11 yr old gets more women winking at him than I do. *sigh* Darn younger men.