This time of year, rather than the summer months, is when the Breton top comes in to its own. Last week, all three women I share an office with, came in layered-up in striped long-sleeved t-shirts.
It’s not about age, it’s about style. And this is for every woman who refuses to be invisible. Alyson Walsh.
I’m a freelance journalist, former magazine fashion editor and author. That’s Not My Age began in 2008, when I noticed a space online to celebrate women of all ages.
I write for the FT’s How To Spend It, The Pool and the Guardian websites.
Confidence comes from finding clothes and accessories that work hard, and work in real life. Not just on catwalks, in glossy magazines or ‘Today I’m Wearing’ Instagram posts.
These reliable, wardrobe essentials are what I like to call Not-So-Basic-Basics. If our younger years are all about experimenting and identity-finding (throwing everything on and hoping for the best), midlife-and-beyond is all about streamlining and refining. Cutting the crap.
KNOW YOUR STYLE: Mix it, Match it, Love it is a beautifully illustrated handbook offering expert style advice and interviews with some of the world’s most inspirational women, including Lucinda Chambers, Caroline Issa, Linda Rodin and Lyn Slater.
With over 30 years of experience in the fashion industry, including 10 years as fashion editor for a leading lifestyle magazine, Alyson Walsh has the answer to any fashion dilemma.
Style is personal, and so is lipstick. Some women prefer to go bold or go home, others to keep things natural.
Pared-back doesn’t have to mean washed out. This warming blast of mustard yellow and a quick spritz of Bella Freud’s Ginsberg is God eau de parfum are providing a welcome boost, right now...
The sleek trouser suit, the simple T-shirt, the khaki utility jacket, the stomp-everywhere boots, (or what one of my friends calls shit-kickers); items that are effortlessly chic and infinitely wearab...
Part Two from London Design Festival is a case of colour and comfy shoes all round. Mei Chen (pictured above), aged 60, is a freelance journalist from Singapore who has lived in London most of her lif...
Second-Hand September went according to plan. Oxfam has reported that 62, 000 people signed up for the online pledge and 37, 000 shared posts on social media.
