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A note on age-appropriate style

— by Alyson Walsh

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Erin O’Connor, Kathy Lette and Joanna Lumley

This week, I was asked what I thought of the label ‘age appropriate.’ Obviously, I said this kind of tired terminology (age-appropriate, anti-ageing) is redundant today.  Age-appropriate is inappropriate. We need to talk about ageing in a more positive way. So, when I picked up the Guardian this morning and read the How I get ready column featuring novelist Kathy Lette, it really made me laugh:

‘Style fascists are always telling women my age to dress in beige and not show any flesh. But why should we stop wearing minis and Wonderbras? I refuse to give up my pink leopard-skin miniskirts – although it did hurt when my teenage daughter pointed disapprovingly at me in one and said, “You are NOT going out dressed like that.”‘

 

 

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