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Real women looking awesome at Hammersmith vintage fair

The first Hammersmith Vintage Fair of September always marks the beginning of autumn for me, there’s a real ‘back to school’ feel amongst both stall holders and customers. We haven’t had a fair since June so there’s lots of new… Read More Read More

Who’s Helping Women In Music? The Keychange Initiative.

Not wanting to go all own-trumpet-blowing on you, but we’ve been ahead of the game here at TWR on a number of current issues, not just about older women in fashion, which we started writing about TEN whole years ago,… Read More Read More

Declutter: The get-real guide to creating calm from chaos

Anyone who knows me IRL, will know I am a bit of a hoarder.  Coupled with the fact that M.A.D is a collector of things (shells, sea glass, beer bottles, match boxes, design books, magazines, vases – the list is… Read More Read More

Beauty Aimed At Us: Perricone MD And The 40Plus Women

While we’ve been on our summer hols (welcome back BTW, hope yours was great) we’ve been inundated with beauty skincare brands aimed at the 40plus woman. What’s going on? I’ve got a few to talk about over the next few… Read More Read More

Who Remembers The Hornsey Stool? More Olderpreneurial Women On TWR

Following on from Jane’s recent post on women olderpreneurs, I was tipped of by a reader (thanks Tracy) about the revival of the Hornsey Stool, by budding female brand builder Juliet Munroe. Who remembers this cute little stool from their… Read More Read More

Suffragette City: what it was really like to be a stone-throwing Suffragette

It feels like there was a sea-change for International Women’s Day this year, the noise coming from women was louder and stronger. I was slightly taken aback when my sons said they were ‘looking forward to IWD” and youngestson, currently… Read More Read More

International Women’s Day: #womenmeanbusiness

I launched my business four and half years ago with a lot of enthusiasm, no money and 30 years experience. Had I been a man (and good with figures) I probably would have looked for investment in order to fund… Read More Read More

A Few Good Reads for Grown Up Women

In the week where the new Vogue was born and the head count of grown up women between its pages reached a heady…..seven, (not including the adverts) we went searching for a few more relevant-to-us reads to keep us busy.… Read More Read More

Inspiring Grown Up Women: Kristina Karlsson from kiki.K

What is it about the Swedes? They seem to have been scattered with just a bit more style dust than the rest of us. That’s what I was thinking when I met up with Kristina Karlsson, founder of kiki.K, the… Read More Read More

Women In Art: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Our roving cultural reporter Elena Bowes is back in her home town of New York this week, chatting to curator Natalie Bell of the New Museum about Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and her new show, Under Song For A Cypher. If… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room at Portobello Market

Anyone with nothing much to do on Friday and Saturday this week (16th and 17th June) should come find TWR at Portobello Market, where I’ll be sharing a stall to sell all my redundant clothes. I am both terrified and… Read More Read More

Women who get s..t done: Ariana Grande

If you didn’t see last nights One Love Manchester concert live on TV, take some time today to watch even a little bit of it. Singer Ariana Grande is loved by millions of young girls (and boys) around the world,… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room Guide to Swishing*

*Swishing. It’s a dreadful word that sounds like it’s a vaguely dodgy practice indulged in by bored married couples but in fact was invented to make an evening where you swap clothes sound more exciting. You may all know this,… Read More Read More

Modern Women, 52 Pioneers by Kira Cochrane, a good read for International Women’s Day

It’s International Women’s Day today, March 8th, and in case you’re feeling -like us- that it doesn’t seem like we have much to cheer about at the moment, can we recommend an excellent and uplifting new book to strengthen our… Read More Read More

Be trans, be proud — but don’t call yourself a “real woman”

Jenni Murray’s article in yesterdays Sunday Times suggests that men who undergo sex change operations cannot be “real women”. Previous similar claims have generated and angry response from transgender activists and Jenni says she “realises the implications of making such… Read More Read More

Women Wearing White: Winter Dressing With Style

A month into my Year Of Nothing New and so far, so good. What do you mean it’s only been four weeks? I’ve successful navigated those tempting sales racks and ubiquitous ‘extra 20% off sale price!’ emails that pop temptingly… Read More Read More

Women who get s..t done: Elizabeth Warren

The first in a new series of posts about women we admire – not for the way they look – but for what they do. As I get older, I’m increasingly intolerant of women who are revered for the way… Read More Read More

The Women’s March: What next?

Many of you will have been on Women’s Marches around the world this weekend and I’m sure like us, you will had an amazingly uplifting and positive experience. The sun shone as we stood in Grovesnor Square among the banners… Read More Read More

Podcasts For Grown Up Women

Firstly, thanks for the AMAZING responses to the Nothing New post from last Monday, I am hugely motivated by all the support and I hope to keep you entertained by my ‘no new clothes’ journey this year. Moving on. Podcasts… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room Meets Isabel Ettedgui At Connolly

Our guest blogger Elena Bowes is a friend of the super-stylish, grown up retailer Isabel Ettedgui, so when she asked if we’d like an interview with her friend in her new Connolly flagship, we jumped at the chance. Over to… Read More Read More

Christmas beauty buys for the women in your life

So teen daughter is no longer teen daughter but a fully fledged grown up who is writing an absolutely brilliant beauty blog. She is not only a total beauty addict, she is also something of an expert and is studying… Read More Read More

Freize Fashion 2016: Gentlewomen styling, cuffed trousers and pink.

Frieze London came around again last week, can it really be a year since the last one? TWR is lucky to have VIP access and so I did my usual brief glimpse at the very best in contemporary art followed… Read More Read More

Giveaway: Protected Species Rainwear! And Thoughts On Women Entrepreneurs

  There’s an interesting new feminism narrative happening in clothes, which is focusing less on the end product (although that is still important) and more about who’s involved in the supply chain. Women entrepreneurs make up a big percentage of… Read More Read More

Vote Womens Equality on May the 5th

We usually try not to get too political on TWR –  everyone to their own and all that – but the Womens Equality party is different. This new collaborative force in British politics is about uniting people of all genders,… Read More Read More

When soaps become real: The Archers

Cooking dinner with the Archers in the background used to be a cosy, comforting thing, with nothing more to think about than how Ruth and David (the most annoyingly smug couple in Britain and don’t get me started on Pip)… Read More Read More

Christmas Gift Guide for stylish women (and men)

So it’s officially December and time to start thinking about buying presents. Is it just me or does Christmas seem to have been going on for months already? In order to help you find the prefect present, or to point… Read More Read More

10 Years of Womens Fiction

This week I went along to the ‘Best of the Best” event at the Piccadilly Theatre to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction. Presented by Kate Mosse Co-Founder and Chair of the Women’s Prize for… Read More Read More

Street Style Shots for Grown Up Women: Tokyo Trends

Last week in Tokyo, while twentysomethingsons and middleagedad went to the baseball, I nipped out to take a few street style shots of Japanese grown up women -and a couple of men -couldn’t resist these cute boys above. As well… Read More Read More

Guest post: the joys of the ukulele. Yes really!

Today’s guest post has a musical edge and comes from our reader Amanda in Scotland. One of the fabulous advantages of the guest post slot is seeing how wide spread and varied our readers interests are turning out to be.… Read More Read More

Top ten stylish grown up women to follow on Instagram

I’m a bit over Twitter. Once it was where you’d go to find chatty, funny people avoiding deadlines and job lists by kicking the breeze with daft conversations about the Eurovision Song Contest. Now it’s stuffed with brands selling you… Read More Read More