What Women Wear at London Design Festival
With London Fashion Week and London Design Festival running back to back, it’s been a week of Super Style. I popped down to LDF to check out what women of style and substance were wearing.
Style For All Ages
Style inspiration for women of all ages – from fashion expert, journalist and author Alyson Walsh. Advice on how to feel chic, comfortable and confident in your clothes, interviews with women of style and substance and all the latest fashion news.
What Women Wear: Tracey Neuls
Award-winning footwear designer Tracey Neuls shuns catwalk trends in favour of doing her own thing. Something that she’s been working on since the age of nine, when using two cereal boxes...
Am I too old for dungarees?
One thing I have pondered over the last few seasons is this: could my love of a good jumpsuit transfer to a fondness for dungarees? Same workwear family, less fabric.
Worth a look: John Lewis & Partners new womenswear collection
The new ‘John Lewis & Partners’ womenswear collection launched this week, and it’s chic, colourful and spot on for autumn. Meanwhile, the larger John Lewis/Waitrose rebrand was accompani...
Style-spiration: the over-50 Instagram stars you need to know
Style is not something that switches off beyond a certain age – as the explosion of social media over the last decade has so brilliantly shown. The rise and rise of older Instagrammers is inspir...
How to wear zebra stripes (Scandi Style)
Never an excessive dress-wearer, I have excelled myself this summer. This revised view of frocks is thanks largely to the Great Heatwave of 2018 and also to the abundance of shirt dresses of a certai...
What to wear right now: the white shirt
From Patti Smith to the supermodels wearing oversized white shirts in the Peter Lindbergh photos of the early 90s, there is no doubting the white shirt’s style credentials. When I interviewed ...
Weatherproof your Wardrobe: Margaret Howell for Barbour
British summertime is back – cue the familiar grey drizzle and welcome return of denim into my life. Much as I enjoyed the glorious weather, by the end of the heatwave I’d exhausted all my wardrob...
Drift sea glass jewellery: perfect for beach-lovers
There’s a vintage jar in the bathroom at That’s Not My Age Mansions that is full of small shells, fragments of sea glass and teeny-tiny polished pebbles. This beach treasure is a memento o...
Madonna: Like an Icon – at 60
The music industry has never been kind to the older woman, says Lucy O’Brien. Female artists are expected to disappear gracefully, but Madonna, as ever, continues to buck trends.
The heatwave continues – bring on the Super Shirt
In typical British style, we’re all a bit ‘over’ the heatwave. One of the warmest summers on record and we’ve had enough of it.
Bolder and Braver: Why wardrobe confidence increases with age
While life’s happiness curve is U-shaped (hooray, I’m 54 and on the up again), I would suggest that personal style follows a continuous, upward trajectory. I’m not bragging when I say that I’m...
