How to wear a shirtdress this autumn
That’s me in my autumn shirtdress. When buying something new, I like to ensure that it’s versatile and timeless (it pays to remember Livia Firth’s “Will I wear it 30 times?
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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...
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.
What Women Wear: Chiara Menage
This gorgeous, grey-haired woman is Chiara Menage, the founder of Menage Modern Vintage – an online clothing shop selling collectable vintage and contemporary pre-owned clothes, shoes and acces...
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...
