dressing one’s age

A Blogger With A Broken Wing

08.11.2011

The thing about aging is that no matter how hard you try or how clever you are, certain things that you swore you’d never do, feel, be, you will.

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Dancing to the Beat of A Deeper Drum

11.29.2010

I’m dancing to my own drummer these days. I’m still not wearing any more makeup than I did years ago. I write with an obvious lack of restraint and share unmentionable stories, all of which surely won’t endear me to the right kind of man.

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Leather Corsets + Midlife = Hello, Good Times!

05.07.2010

It was an eye-opening evening for the both of us, witnessing my ownership of my sexuality.

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Fashion Fouls: The Older I Get, the Easier It Is to Make Them

07.22.2009

The fear in the back of my mind, though, is that I could be that woman in the flowered leggings and gym shorts. Maybe not this minute, but someday. It was almost like a premonition.

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To Dye or Not, That is the [Midlife] Question…

05.04.2009

Now that I’m finished with chemotherapy, my hair is growing back….The Jane Fonda Klute wig I’ve been wearing will soon be a relic, so here I stand at the crossroads: go gray or say nay?

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The Grayification of Facebook–and the rest of the world

04.06.2009

…we Americans almost universally associate “greying” with aging. Which is strange considering the fact that I know men who are completely bald by thirty, and we don’t use the word “balding” as a way of referring to states of degeneration.

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Dressing for Midlife: Who Gets To Say What’s Age Appropriate?

10.15.2008

Crossposted by Jane of  ByJane What’s your opinion on fashion for the forty and over set? I’ve been reading More magazine and frankly, it’s pissing me off. Last month Lesley Jane Seymour devoted her Editor’s Column to dressing one’s age. She described standing behind a woman at a hotel in Hollywood and trying to figure [...]

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Adventures at Midlife: You’re going out looking like that?

06.24.2008

by Ms Meta of MetaFootNotes ByJane read my recent Dr. Martens blogpost, and challenged me to take a broader look at fashion for older — and often, um, broader — women. HA! Like I have anything original to say about THAT. Just try googling the topic and you’ll find endless screens of advice. A few [...]

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