How much has your mother influenced your style?

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  Posted by cindy Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:53am PDT

  Uh yeah, my mom taught me how not to dress. I don't want to dress like my mom in tshirts and sweats. Luv ya mom!

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  Posted by AimeeM Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:25pm PDT

  All my daughters have to say to me "is that looks like something Grandmother would wear" and I change my clothes! My problem is my girls don't want me to dress like a teenager but if I put on something "age-appropriate they say "those are old lady clothes, go change now!"

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  Posted by starfedra Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:18pm PDT

  LOL..Cindy.....you just said what I was going to say, I love my mom but oh boy..!! And the worst thing is that she would be so offended if I suggest a make over..

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  Posted by Maya Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:23pm PDT

  My mother (when I was little) always had really nice clothes and jewelry. People (to this day) tell me stories about how great my mother used to dress. She doesn't care about clothes now.

  My family is mainly all women, and most of them have always been very glamorus.

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  Posted by opiniononly Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:39pm PDT

  My mom would wear those truly awful $1.00 pins, necklaces and earrings that were sold for Mother's Day gifts because we gave them to her. She's given most of them to me and the "vintage" appeal and compliments from others is amusing.

  She wasn't/isn't a particularly stylish dresser, but she was always gracious and enthusiastic when wearing a gift item...even when it was pretty dreadful...and her lesson had more to do with being kind - and one of a kind - than anything else.

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  Posted by AshleyM Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:33pm PDT

  I always look at old pictures of my mother and grandmother and wish I had the outfit they were wearing! Theres this particular off-white silk dress my grandmother wore to my parents wedding with floral cutouts on the top-AHH! I want it so bad everytime I see that pic!

  Thats why now I keep items that were special to me in storage for my daughter.

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  Posted by PIper Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:11am PDT

  this post rules. thanks for hooking up mom the style icon! i posted a pic of your mom on my site:

  http://momstyleicons.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-mom-loves-parade.html

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  Posted by Misty Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:18am PDT

  My Mother,I always thought, looked like wonder woman. She was and still is beautiful. She has always been simple and elegant with very little jewelry and fitted taylored clothes. Yea I went through the stage of more is better in the 90's when I was a teen but as I grew up so did my style. And the older I get the more I realize I am so much like her. We often get together and find that we match. I dont care my Mom is one great looking woman to match.

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  Posted by Katie W Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:26am PDT

  The only thing I wear that my mom wore at my age is boots with big heels

  and skirts to go along with it

  She use to wear dresses all the time and I do that as well

  We both wear pants as well

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  Posted by Sally Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:10pm PDT

  My mom was born in the 50's, but she was a teenager in the 60's (not a Flower Child - I wish she was!!) and she was really into the double breast jackets and boots. I have one picture of her in this jacket that I LOVE and I wish she had kept it! Sometimes I go to thrift stores and try to find jackets like that. I used to be into the high heeled boots, but they are too much of a hassle to deal with haha.

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