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Fashion & BeautyOctober 4, 2014

Weekend Woman: Diane Keaton

By Amanda

Often on TWR we are asked what the ‘rules’ are for dressing once you get older. When we first started the blog (six years ago next week) we wanted to be helpful, so we’d suggest a few pointers; perhaps watching … Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 3, 2014

+J is back at Uniqlo -a few things to buy

By Amanda

A quick additional post today and attention +J fans! There is a small collection -called the Best Of +J -available currently at Uniqlo. Now, no one told us this was going in store, we thought +J had finshed forever, but… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 2, 2014

Celebrity kids on the front row: Froddlers

By Jane

Watching the live streaming of fashion shows can be tricky as on one hand I actually want to see the clothes (for work obvs) but the DM SCOS reader in me can’t help but focus on who’s on the front… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessOctober 1, 2014

Style icon: Dame Barbara Hepworth

By Amanda

I grew up with Barbara Hepworth all around me, thanks to my dad, a keen amateur sculptor, who introduced me to her wonderfully curvaceous, calming forms as soon as I could say ‘not that boring old art stuff again’. Inevitably… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 29, 2014

Style Icon: Mary Wall

By Amanda

I bumped into this very stylish woman on Sunday morning outside the Royal Academy, we were both queueing for the Anselm Kiefer exhibition. I asked if I could take her picture as I thought she looked amazing -she looked like… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 25, 2014

The Best Dress List, with Allium B

By Amanda

We love it here at TWR when we find women who are doing it for themselves, to badly quote the Eurythmics. Allium B is a Brighton based design studio set up by sisters Clare and Mary Burgess, which has specialised… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 24, 2014

Style Icon: Lord Shoreditch, aka Steve Edge

By Jane

We don’t often feature men in our style icon posts, not because older men don’t inspire us – there simply don’t seem to be so many men willing to take risks with their clothes as they age. I recently came… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 23, 2014

GrownUpCore: The impact older women have had on fashion

By Amanda

We’ve gone a bit back-to-school-homework-topics with our approach to fashion discussion this week on TWR. Jane’s show-and-tell post yesterday questioned the relevance of designers who still produce clothes better suited to an over-sexed Barbie than today’s modern female. Today I’m… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 22, 2014

Feminine or Feminist: Fashion extremes

By Jane

For the last two weeks I have been trawling though images from the catwalk shows for the day job. Mainly they have split into two camps, the beautifully wearable and the utterly ridiculous. My absolute favourite utterly wearable (if somewhat… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 13, 2014

Weekend Woman: Natalie Massenet

By Amanda

It’s Fashion Week in London, so Natalie Massenet had to be our Weekend Woman this week. Unless you’ve been living in a fashion-free zone for over a decade, you’ll know that Natalie founded everyone’s favourite clothes-lust website, Net-A-Porter, by working… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 12, 2014

Women in Clothes

By Jane

Women in Clothes is new book which looks at what women wear and what we are trying to say to the outside world with our clothes. 642 women submitted comments to the project answering questions such as “what are you… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 11, 2014

How to wear: vintage jodhpurs

By Amanda

Bringing everyone back to this autumn rather than next, have you got your head around culottes yet? I have and I’m not going there. I’m not doing it even though I saw Vogue’s fashion editor Lucinda Chambers wearing a gorgeous… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 10, 2014

New York fashion week: A collection to love

By Jane

This week I am up to my neck in catwalks – not literally – but I am trawling though everything that might influence our clothing choices for Spring Summer 15. Yes I know I’m way ahead of you people –… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 4, 2014

The What’s Underneath Project: Jacky O’Shaughnessy

By Jane

When you are young you imagine all sorts of things about the kind of older woman you will become – what you will do for a living, where you will live and what you will look like. In many ways… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 3, 2014

Flattering necklines for grown up women

By Amanda

While women of the world recoil in disgust, again, at some sleezey bloke posting hacked images of female celebrities without their clothes (we’re hoping there’s a special, nasty room in hell where people like this are headed too) we’re looking … Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 1, 2014

Comfortable underpinning, with Triumph’s Magic Wire

By Amanda

We probably should be starting to talk about winter clothes this week, as that last Bank Holiday week is sort of the end of summer really, don’t you think? But I’m not ready for it yet, even as the temperature… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 21, 2014

Daphne Guinness has an Evening in Space

By Jane

And has sex with a pink alien – and quite frankly why not. The 47 year old (go Daphne) artist and heiress has released a mesmerising, if slightly insane music video directed by David LaChapelle Evening in Space was produced… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 20, 2014

Older models, another success: Angelica Huston for Gap

By Amanda

I mentioned earlier this month about how big brands were starting to use older models in their all important September advertising, well looks who turned up in the Gap campaign… The awesome Angelica Huston. The adverts, entitled Dress Normal, are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 18, 2014

How to buy the best jeans, with Jean Stories

By Amanda

Oh, Jeans Stories, you are a clever idea, I wish I’d thought of you. Instead two clever American girls, Jane Herman Bishop and Florence Kane got there before me. Both Jane and Florence are denim experts who have practically invented… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 15, 2014

Buy this: Glamglow face mask

By Jane

If you are a beauty junkie or teenager you will almost probably have heard of GlamGlow. But if like me you can take or leave the beauty pages/blogs/Vlogs and reviews, it may well have passed you by. I’m informed by… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 13, 2014

How to wear: Culottes

By Jane

So culottes are a “thing” again and I’m not going to lie, this is a tricky one particularly if you are short like me. But there is a certain amount of liberation in a culotte and if you can get… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 12, 2014

Me and my fashionable mum, with a bit of help from Jaeger

By Amanda

Is it me or -hold on tightly to something -are we grown up women actually becoming fashionable? I’ve returned from my holidays to discover we are everywhere in the September editions of the glossies, it’s quite unnerving. Not only is… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 8, 2014

Purple make up – would you?

By Amanda

I’m away this week, so today we have a guest blog from lovely Amy Dicketts. I was about to ditch a couple of the purple make up samples (this next season’s hottest shade, it’s as if the 70s never went… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 5, 2014

Trend Alert: Midi Skirts

By Jane

Banish all thoughts of the 70’s and bad memories of A line denim skirts with giant wooden wedges and super skinny ribs sweaters, the midi skirt is back, but not as you know it. The new midi is sophisticated and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 31, 2014

One dress to buy from Gap

By Amanda

Just a quick extra post today to mention this extremely good indigo floral jacquard dress from Gap. Just ignore me if you’ve done all your summer dress buying, but if you have a need for a hard working mid summer… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 29, 2014

A lesson in scarf tying with Cleo Ferin Mercury

By Amanda

One absolute joy of having our blog, is that we meet so many interesting people, including other bloggers, many of whom have turned into friends. Kirsty from Fashion For Lunch is my latest addition, her blog is great and she… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 28, 2014

How to dress for summer: Nonna Chic

By Jane

Every time I go on holiday to Europe I am inspired by the way the older women dress, whether it’s the super chic Parisian women, uber tanned bikini wearing Spanish women or the Italian Nonnas sweeping their front steps in… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 25, 2014

A new bag love: The Original Satchel Store

By Amanda

How many handbags do you have? I thought I had enough hand bags, well I DO have more than enough bags, but then The Original Satchel Store sent along this soft leather tote bag for us to consider. As it… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 24, 2014

The power of the beauty Vlogger

By Jane

There is a beauty revolution going on and if you are not a teenager/twenty something (or living with one) you could have absolutely no idea it was happening. For some time my beauty obsessed daughter has been telling me about… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 23, 2014

Great use of older models by jewellery designer Zorya

By Amanda

We mentioned last week the fab film by The Future Lab, which highlights how the beauty industry is being very slow to realise that using older models in their marketing campaigns might be no bad thing, since, y’know, there are… Read More