LOL and she's got Jimmy Choo shoes and an HERMES bag... to "elevate it". Not only do they not elevate it, they don't go with it.£2 from the charity shop in Milton Keynes
ONE MILLION PERCENT! You have nailed it! A grandmother is a family member and a title you earn when becoming one....it's not an ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSthetic. Lydia just dresses like SHIT and is desperate AF.I’m curious as to what some of our fabulous grandmothers on here think of Lidl calling herself an ‘English Country Grandmother’ or ‘Coastal Grandmother’.
I ask because my mother and M-I-L both adore being grandmothers to my two kids. It’s an honour for them to have raised children who have then gone on to raise children themselves.
To me, dressing a particular way and throwing yourself into a certain aesthetic seems insulting and offensive to what being a grandmother actually is. Neither of my children’s grandmothers wear horrible floral bedsheets cosplaying as a dress - my mum has tattoos and has a different jewel-coloured streak put through in her silver hair every time she goes to her hairdresser. My MIL is more conservative but still stylish, classic, and age-appropriate (she’s mid-50s). She makes beautiful quilts and she would cut up Lidl’s dresses in a heartbeat for quilting patches.
Not once when I announced either of my pregnancies since did either of them say, “Oh capital, now I can buy that antique book coz, ya know, I’m grandmothering now.”
TL;DR, Being a grandmother isn’t an aesthetic, it’s a family member.
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