fashion

Fashion After Fifty

11.12.2011

I still get all the fashion magazines but to what end, I asked myself. I can’t wear half the stuff they’re showing; I’m too old.

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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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Midlife Fashion Trauma: Shopping for Jeans

10.22.2008

Blue Was My Favorite Color by Cecilia of Sass Town I backed out of the driveway Monday with the clear cut mission of finding a replacement pair of blue jeans. There were some definite perimeters involved in the search. They must be dark wash, boot cut, mid-rise, have back pockets but no flaps, be petite [...]

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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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Vogue gets it

07.27.2008

If you’re interested in fashion–well, some of us are and some of us aren’t–you must, absolutely must, darling, see the August issue of Vogue.  That is, as in the past, their so-called Age Issue, when they feature women and fashion from every decade from twenty through eighty.  I love that.  Unlike other magazines, they really [...]

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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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