Filmmaker Jessica Ellis<\/a> started the conversation when she tweeted a poster for \u201cFather of the Bride 2,\u201d featuring stars Steve Martin and Diane Keaton in their classic mom and dad get-ups.<\/p>\nIn the follow up to 1991’s \u201cFather of the Bride,\u201d the A-listers reprized their roles as mid-40-somethings, George and Nina Banks, whose daughter Annie (played by Kimberly Williams-Paisley) is expecting her first child.<\/p>\n
Keaton’s character is dressed demurely in a string of pearls, a modest white blouse and a skirt. Martin is wearing the 1990s casual businessman uniform: a sports jacket, blue shirt and loud tie.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn unbelievable thing that has changed in 30 years is that in 1995, this was supposed to be what 45-year-olds looked like,\u201d Ellis wrote, clarifying that she was referring to the movie characters \u2014 not the actors themselves.<\/p>\nDiane Keaton and Steve Martin in \u201cFather of the Bride 2.\u201d<\/figcaption>Touchstone\/Kobal\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTwitter users, many of then Gen Xers and Millennials old enough to remember the on-screen couple’s look as the status quo, responded with a flurry of thoughts about how people in their mid-40s now dress far more youthfully than Baby Boomers \u2014 boldfaced and otherwise \u2014 did at that age. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if I told you skinny jeans, Converse, and awesome t-shirt collections will be the new Old People wardrobe?\u201d one tweeter quipped.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents gave me an actual strand of pearls in high school because I guess they thought I would dress this way someday,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
One person joked that a 40-something would be styled with a Peloton nowadays.<\/p>\n
Others noted that Kim Kardashian \u2014 perennially clad in skimpy Lycra \u2014 is 42-years-old, a mere three years younger than the buttoned up Mr. and Mrs. banks.<\/p>\nJessica Chastain and Michael Fassbender are both 45.<\/figcaption>Getty Images For Twentieth Centu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFor comparison, \u201cX-Men: Dark Phoenix\u201d co-stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Fassbender are both 45. <\/p>\n
Many acknowledged that times and styles have progressed, and that attitudes towards aging have changed significantly since the 1990s, when the local Hallmark store, or mall-staple Spencer’s, had entire \u201cOver the Hill\u201d sections for 40th birthday cards and gag gifts.<\/p>\n
One youngster \u2014 presumably in a neon crop top and booty shorts \u2014 tweeted: \u201cIf I wear that much beige at 45, just put me in the grave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n