Dress code: Is age just a number when choosing what to wear?

Why would a 45-year-old woman walk around town wearing clothes that her teenage daughter would also not fit in? She is literally suffocating in the small cropped top, revealing the belly with stretch marks. The not so flattering figure is made worse by the short skirt which barely covers her thighs. It is fashion suicide and an embarrassment to women.
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