Being over 50 doesn’t stop me from being sexy or stylish – I’ll wear leather dresses, crop tops and even go braless
IT can be difficult to navigate fashion as you get older, with most of us feeling like we can’t dress like when we were young.
For one influencer though, being over 50 hasn’t stopped her from her from barring her mid-drift, wearing leather dresses or even going braless.
If you are in need of a new style icon, look no further than Tiktok star Ana Dias.
Better known as @anadias.official, the glamourous influencer regularly shares her style secrets for the over 50s.
However, the internet sensation isn’t about covering up or dressing in frumpy attire.
Instead, her page helps women embrace their sexy side with Ana’s body and age positive content.
Rather than shying away from hard to wear materials such as leather, she embraces them and went viral for wearing a stunning backless mini dress.
With her pixie hair cut, long leather trench vampy red nails, she looks like she’s just walked off the runway.
Unlike many women her age, the 57-year-old is even comfortable forgoing a bra as she showed off her toned frame.
Despite this, the Brazilian woman didn’t start modelling until her late fifties and had previously worked as a sales associate for Chanel.
It wasn’t until the pandemic that she began to share her incredible dress sense, which balances sultriness and a classic sense of style.
Things haven’t come easily to this influencer though, as she risked everything on her social media career.
Having worked for over a decade in luxury brands, her content actually led to her leaving her previous career behind.
Ironically, the last brand she worked for pointedly told her that she could continue on the shop floor or pursue social media.
Of course, Ana chose the latter and since amassed nearly a million followers on the app.
Not only that, but she has also brokered deals with countless high end brands and even appeared on magazine covers.
Though she is living a life few of us could imagine, this isn’t the end goal for the influencer.
Instead, the 57-year-old hopes to inspire other women who’ve felt like they’ve become invisible as they’ve aged.
On a recent video of her styling a crop top, she encouraged others to do the same showing how you layer a more structured piece over a vest top.
Though surprisingly simple, it’s been seen over 14 million times with other women commenting that they wanted to recreate the look.
One even wrote: “OMG I [would] never thought of that.”
Another added: “Thank you for sharing this idea for those of us more comfortable covering up our midsection!”
Whilst her confidence is inspiring, it hasn’t always been this easy for the Tiktok star – who has previously revealed she struggled with taking center stage throughout her twenties.
Even with her new found fame though, she still struggles with comparison – according to Old Cow on Medium.
She told the outlet that it is her son who help her, especially when she still struggles to feel confident.
“He’ll tell me ‘Mom, stop caring about the lives of other people and do what you think is best for you and your followers,” Ana told the outlet.
It is this which has also helped her find a young audience online, who seem drawn to her fashion forward videos.
People in their twenties even make up the majority of those following Ana, after women in their 40s and 50s.
That and working with Lady Gaga‘s makeup brand, Hous Labs.
When asked about this, she said: “Younger people interact the most with my content, commenting things like ‘when I grow up I want to be like you.”
So do we, Ana, so do we.