It appears to be predicated on the assumption that people don’t want to “look old.” I think this may be overly simplistic. As one of the senior members of the group (at 54), there was not any kind of conscious decision to pick a shape and skin that “looked young” rather I sought shapes and skins that — if not accurately reflecting my RL body, at least reflected a male, Caucasian in late middle age. This was not a conscious decision on my part, but rather a sense of “but *that’s* not *me*” whenever I saw the wide-shouldered, narrow hipped, flat belly and butt which represents the youthful male shape in SL. Instead, I wound up with a rather narrow shouldered, moderately muscled, slightly bottom heavy shape and a dark skin — as if I’d been working in the fields all my life.

So in the absence of wrinkly skins, how does one represent “age”?