Mom goes viral on TikTok with bold outfits despite calls from haters to dress your age

Forget get-young-quick schemes.Australian mom Trish Roda is proving age and authenticity are the ultimate style statement.At 58, her closet isn’t a place of limitation.

It’s a space of liberation.It’s where she comes alive.“Age is just a number,” Roda told news.com.au.“Style is who you are.

Style is character.Style is showing your own expression.

Style is just being you.” She’s been styling wardrobes for decades, but her boldest collaboration yet is with her 31-year-old daughter, Suzannah Gagliardi.Together, they’re making age-inclusive fashion go viral.“We’re very close, my mom and I.

We’re like best friends,” Gagliardi told news.com.au.“I’ve always known her to be such a strong woman.She’s who I aspire to be when I grow older.” The pair believed Roda’s passion for fashion deserved a bigger audience, so they turned to TikTok and were quick to gain traction.“I just felt like I wanted to put it out there and show how amazing she is at 58,” Gagliardi said. It’s a love that her mom is more than thrilled to share, pushing fashion boundaries and challenging expectations placed on middle-aged women by society.“We’re dictated by how we should dress, how we should look.

It’s really about knowing who you are as a person, and that’s hard to do,” Roda said.“If people search for who they are within their own four walls, then when they walk outside the door, they can conquer the world.” It’s a message the world could use more of, but this is the internet, and the mother-daughter duo hasn’t escaped the dark side of the comments section.Their most recent post has amassed more than 780,000 views, with Roda looking sensational in a pair of black leather pants and a sparkly top.Still, not even a shimmering top and a smile could silence the internet’s self-appointed fashion police.“She’s proof that looks don’t last forever,” one commenter wrote.“If that was my mom, I’d be telling her to wise up,�...