Penelope Whiteley 
I was blessed with a mother who could take a scarf and a couple of cheap bangles and turn an inexpensive outfit into a fashion statement. It was a knack she acquired watching her aunties; women from the twenties! It’s a knack that has been handed down; in my family, we are all women who love our accessories.
I’ve just finished reading an article about society’s extraordinary, generous and open acceptance of Women of a Certain Age. Baby Boomer women. Half-way through the reading, I began to wonder where in the Universe the writer of this piece of rubbish was living … certainly not this one.
If we’re being kind to ourselves, and why wouldn’t we? we should, in truth, run a stocktake at the end of every week. One of the keys to doing that is to have a system that requires no thinking but plenty of feeling.
If you can’t remember when you last cleaned your makeup brushes and sponges, then now might be a good time to give them a bit of a spring clean.
How often have you heard Less is More when it comes to makeup? Especially when talking about women who are no longer in the first, or even second flush of youth. We hear it all the time, but we never think it applies to us! No-no no no … But we certainly know when somebody else is wearing too much make-up!
As we grow older we seem to require less sleep; we think so and everyone else does too! Is it true or is it yet another Urban Myth? Amongst researchers and the medical fraternity, the general consensus seems to be that we do not require less sleep, but are no longer able to have loooong sleep-filled nights … the good old 8 hours straight is a thing of the past.
Throughout lockdown we were itching to get out and go shopping. A trip down the local high street or a meet up in the local shopping mall … whatever your desire it just wasn’t going to happen. And it didn’t.
You know, I frequently find all things PC to be too OTT and I’m not alone. but occasionally I wonder if it’s due to my age. I have now decided it has nothing to do with my age because so many girls think the same way. Perhaps it’s something to do with being female? Am I allowed to say female?!
Some of you already know, and some of you have forgotten, but I bet that in your teenage-hood you decided that by the time you reached 40 life would be over and so would your interest in fashion and style. But you’re probably still wearing jeans so you’re hanging in there!
The Subtle Art of Accessorising seems to be disappearing.
Is it because we’ve lost the knack, or never had the knack? Whatever happened to bleeding colours through an outfit with jewellery, scarves, gloves? Why do so many women seem to be locked into dressing down rather than dressing UP?! When we could be using accessories to enhance… even flatter?