Dress your age

I may be a television snob most of the time, but I do enjoy some non-cerebral entertainment. Enter What Not To Wear.

I love when Stacey and Clinton berate people for their horrible fashion sense and throw away all their offensive clothes, such as "Mom jeans" which make me gag. "Mom jeans" are in most cases light blue with tapered legs and come up to your tits.

On a recent episode there was a woman featured who had a Peter Pan complex - she refused to believe she was in her late 30's and still dressed like a teenager. While I agree she had an issue, I somewhat understand how difficult it is to find clothes that are age appropriate.

Here's the problem. Clothes are either for teenagers or for woman in their 50's. There is an in-between void. It doesn't help that I am very picky and still try to remain hip, yet age appropriate. So if you're neither a Forever 21 or a Coldwater Creek candidate, it can be time-consuming and disheartening to find items.

I had my 15-year high school reunion in 2005 and it took Diane and I two days and five malls to find outfits for this event. And it wasn't even formal...the thing was at a dive bar. It's just a difficult age bracket. Someone needs to open a store for 30-somethings asap.

For those of you who care about clothes, I ended up wearing really dark boot cut jeans, black lacey t-shirt, black shrug, fish net stockings and stilettos. Way hot, but kind of wasted on those dumb catholic school kids.