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Amazon.comCheck out this mid-life take on thongs. Made me laugh, anyway.
“first of all it is important to put the thong on with the wide part in front. if you don’t, and many have made this mistake, you will, i promise you, get far more than you bargained for….”
Back in the crap old 1980s, when clothes still cost actual money, ‘cost per wear’ was a phrase you often heard in relation to wardrobes.
I wonder if anyone takes any notice of this any more? In the UK, the cost of clothing has effectively halved in the past decade, and women now routinely cheer themselves up with new clothes on a weekly, even daily, basis. But it wasn’t always this way, and the truth is, it can’t continue.
Look fabulous over 40 with these fashion tips
Following on from Dressing for Grown-ups, parts 1-3, here are five last fashion ideas that should suit grown-up girls of any age.
16 Wear three colours per outfit
OK - four if one of them’s a neutral, but even then, generally, three is a better number. More than this and you can end up looking like Coco the clown. If you lead a practical life, or it’s winter, the majority of your outfit should be a dark neutral (for summer, a pale neutral is an option), plus two other colours that either tone or contrast depending on your temperament (if you like loud contrasts, that’s up to you, though I wouldn’t advise it).
Fashion for the over-40s.
Following on from articles one and two, here are five more tips on how to look good at any age.
11 Create a signature look
Once you hit 40 is the time in your life to focus on what you yourself are really interested in when it comes to clothing - not what the designers tell you that you should be interested in. There is no need to change your look from season to season - it is easier and more workable to develop a signature look.
Over-40 and want to look great? Here are some tips on how to dress well over 40
Following on from yesterday’s article, here are five more tips on dressing over 40, no matter what your size and shape.
6 Dress your silhouette
By this I mean your frame - dress your bone structure, not your weight.
A reader asked me the other day for some advice on dressing over 50 if you’re not overweight - because most dress advice seems to assume that you are, she said.
Although I’m still in my 40s, I take her point, and our situations are no different. One of the things that bugs me a bit about dressing ‘advice’ for grown-up women is that it assumes you’ve let yourself go and your main objective should now be to disguise your enormous pot belly and disgusting wobbly thighs.
Classic clothes are the backbone of your wardrobe - here’s how to wear them.
I am a big fan of classic clothes, as you may have noticed if you’ve eyeballed this blog, especially for those of us who are over 40. But a wardrobe, or even an outfit, made up entirely of classic clothes would be as boring as whale shit. When I say classics should be the backbone of your wardrobe, that’s exactly what I mean - the backbone, not the whole thing.
I was reading Threads magazine the other day and found a few tips that were interesting, aimed at the fashion-conscious woman over 50.
Threads is the world’s best sewing magazine, aimed at what Americans call ’sewists’, which is just a way of avoiding the word ’sewers’ really, given the double meaning. In other words, people who sew, but not professional dressmakers. With apologies to the author Linda Lee, here are the main points, tweaked to apply them to ready to wear, along with my opinion. See if you agree:
The sales are upon us. Here’s how to shop without committing murder
Today’s Christmas Eve and barring those last-last-minute presents, most of us are about ready for Christmas, the turkey is defrosting and we’re getting ready for tomorrow. But come the day after, the sales begin in earnest, with all those seemingly-irresistible opportunities to snap up a bargain.
A quick guide to thermals
It’s cold today. Outside it’s about minus 8, taking windchill into account, and in this office it’s about 17 degrees.
Seventeen degrees isn’t illegal, so even if I worked for somebody else, which I don’t, I couldn’t go on strike - the lowest limit for a legal office temperature is 16 degrees. But the optimal temperature for working is 21 degrees, so we’re falling far short. Even sitting next to my plug-in radiator, however, I’m not going to get my working environment much warmer, because this house is a draughty old pile, so I have to dress warmly to compensate.
