Comments on: I’m starting to see a trend here….this just(sort of) in from the LONDON TIMES… http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/ Making The Most of MidLife--Together Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: byjane http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/comment-page-1/#comment-4019 byjane Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:35:13 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/#comment-4019 <p>Yes, but that's because you're English. Americans have no such biases re the royals; in fact, we wish we had them. And who are Clare Short and Dawn French????</p> Yes, but that’s because you’re English. Americans have no such biases re the royals; in fact, we wish we had them. And who are Clare Short and Dawn French????

]]> By: writerwench http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/comment-page-1/#comment-4017 writerwench Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:05:14 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/#comment-4017 <p>Actually, I think the presence of a large, cheerful, and violently purple-and-red clad contingent of the Red Hat ladies in the New Year's Day parade was more likely to get the 50+ women thinking 'hey, why am I still living my life to please others?' and break loose. And not feel bloody GUILTY about doing so!</p> Actually, I think the presence of a large, cheerful, and violently purple-and-red clad contingent of the Red Hat ladies in the New Year’s Day parade was more likely to get the 50+ women thinking ‘hey, why am I still living my life to please others?’ and break loose. And not feel bloody GUILTY about doing so!

]]> By: writerwench http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/comment-page-1/#comment-4016 writerwench Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:56:43 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/01/01/im-starting-to-see-a-trend-here-this-justsort-of-in-from-the-london-times/#comment-4016 <p>"Marian Salzman — J Walter Thompson’s advertising superstar who popularised the term metrosexual — called from America and a startling thought fell straight from her lips: “Camilla is going to be the next great lifestyle icon.” "<br /> Ah, so it's basically an American idea? </p> <p>Quite honestly, as a divorced 50+ Englishwoman, I wouldn't give Camilla a second thought. She's totally irrelevant to my lifestyle and social circle. She's a ROYAL... as in, on another planet, completely separate, glass-walled into a tiny world of privileged, effortlessly skinny, unthinkingly wealthy, carefree aristos.<br /> Irrelevant.</p> <p>Now someone like Clare Short or Dawn French, someone who actually does their own shopping and worries about their pensions and the latest burblings from the Treasury, THEY are relevant to me as 'icons'. </p> “Marian Salzman — J Walter Thompson’s advertising superstar who popularised the term metrosexual — called from America and a startling thought fell straight from her lips: “Camilla is going to be the next great lifestyle icon.” “
Ah, so it’s basically an American idea?

Quite honestly, as a divorced 50+ Englishwoman, I wouldn’t give Camilla a second thought. She’s totally irrelevant to my lifestyle and social circle. She’s a ROYAL… as in, on another planet, completely separate, glass-walled into a tiny world of privileged, effortlessly skinny, unthinkingly wealthy, carefree aristos.
Irrelevant.

Now someone like Clare Short or Dawn French, someone who actually does their own shopping and worries about their pensions and the latest burblings from the Treasury, THEY are relevant to me as ‘icons’.

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