Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 02, 2015

Arlo, you are going to live to regret those snarky comments.!

I’m not much on make up and stuff….But I can understand a woman who chooses to dye her hair….I just wish they’d grow it longer…..Short hair is boring….

Natural beauty shouldn’t be covered up weather it’s gray or any other color.

Old women with colored hair just look silly. No one is fooled. But then, men look equally foolish with dyed hair. I suppose it’s possible to get natural looking dyed hair if one goes to a sufficiently expensive operator, but I rarely see it. .As to high-heel clogs, those repel me on women of any age. I take them as an indication of a small mind or worse. If you don’t think you can be appealing without ridiculous and somewhat dangerous shoes, you’re either appallingly dull and/or genuinely unappealing in ways that shows cannot fix.

I WISH women would know when to give up on young people’s fashions, and the same goes for old men who insist on inappropriately dressing. Don’t they have mirrors?

I’ve commented before on dyed hair. Older people who hope to recapture their youth by trying to approximate (or “improve on”) the hair shade of their teens, usually look pathetic. My mom used to call people who tried to make themselves look glamorous, but only messed things up, “swikes.” My gray is lurking there, mostly in back, but it’s welcome. I’ve earned every strand.

As for length, I finally gave in to the inevitable and adopted a ponytail for super-straight, superfine hair. (Spider-web fine, not elegant fine.) I asked cosmetologists not to cut my hair off blunt, in case I wanted to make it into a bun, but the last one did. So I never had it cut after 1992. Conveniently, it falls out when it reaches a certain length, so it just goes a few inches below my shoulder blades.

Being female and all, I do draw the line at baldness. If it gets too bad before I squelch, I may adopt a Whistler’s Mother type arrangement, but use something more modest.

I found an interesting site on this problem, but the hats are too . . . big.

http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2013/09/the-elder-hat-lady-cometh.html

Any leads on minimalist-looking caps?.

sorry, but at my age comfort and convenience are the priorities. if my looks offend you, don’t look.

sorry, but at my age comfort and convenience are the priorities. if my looks offend you, don’t look.

I must confess that I not only dye my hair, but generally wear a wig. I am fairly tall, pale, and thin. Because of a serious thyroid problem, I don’t have much hair, and what I do have tends to stick up In short, I resemble Dill, over at Cul de Sac. A very tall Q-tip. I dye my hair a light auburn (much lighter than my younger color) and wear a wig to match.

Women don’t instinctively know when to give these “things” up – they get badgered into it by the beauty culture.

i have three different highlights done monthly. my hair is long and wavy shiny. looks believable.

Here, finally, is one place where my wife’s degree of vanity matches Janis’: She hates gray hair. My wife’s worst jones is a box of hair color.

It gives me great pleasure to see a woman with the courage to let her hair go grey and still wear it long.