midlife fashion

My Feet Hurt

02.05.2010

Yes they do. Every day. In almost every way. This, as much as used-up eggs and hot flashes, seems to be a fact of my midlife. Once, in my glory days, I could wear any number of cute little shoes with impunity. They were, in fact, the balm to an ego smashed by a body [...]

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Abercrombie & Fitch: MidLife Fashion Fail

08.12.2009

They have some nice looking stuff, but most of it requires layering (because it’s too skimpy to be worn without something under it or over it).

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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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MidLife: Time to Update That Look? Or Not?

02.25.2009

The eye shadow was the first to go. Instead of making me look youthful and wide-eyed, it began to make me look tired and slightly clownish, like I’d lost a run-in with a tropical fish.

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I Have Nothing to Wear: Pants Department, or How about that elastic waist?

12.05.2008

By Laura G. of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman Perhaps the most serious flaw or failure to appear in my closet is pants. This may be news to the clothing companies, but women have thighs and for some horribly upsetting reason, they get bigger as we get older. As the breadth of our experience widens, [...]

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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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