Is it never too late to use the old words?

 You really are getting up there in years when you mention in conversation something is "Newfangled" and realize just how oldfangled that word sounds.

Actually "newfangled" IS the older word (14th century), and "oldfangled" is first found in 1842 as patterned after"newfangled."
 
Merriam-Webster tells us both words derive from Old English fangen, "to take or seize."