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Fashion & BeautyMarch 12, 2015

We are in April’s Good Housekeeping!

By Amanda

If you have a copy of Good Housekeeping for April, turn to page 137, where we are on the Best Dress List…oh yeah….. Actually, we are both a bit blithery about having our photo taken, but Jo Atkinson from the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 11, 2015

Gentlewoman-styling #1: denim at Whistles

By Amanda

I’m starting to think about spring purchases and I’m going to begin with some gentlewomanly-denim. By gentlewoman styling, I mean that clean, androgynous casualness that is influencing absolutely everyone’s advertising and editorial campaigns this season. It’s a sort of minimal… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 6, 2015

What hipsters think they’ll look like when they’re older

By Amanda

I am indebted to eldestson, who sent me these images from Vice magazine via email with the title ‘Mum! This is what I’ll look like when I’m older!’ Eldest son is a fully paid up hipster, although he’ll object very… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 2, 2015

A moment with Diane Pernet and her new fragrance collection

By Amanda

I’m not sure how many of you will have heard of Diane, she writes the blog A Shaded View On Fashion and holds cult status amongst the fashionata for her support of original designers and film makers. I’ve loved her… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 28, 2015

Weekend Woman: Patricia Arquette

By Amanda

Our Weekend Woman can only be Patricia Arquette this week, for her impassioned speech on the need for pay equality for women, at The Oscars 2015. She won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Boyhood, a really fabulous film… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyFebruary 27, 2015

Style Icon: Claire Underwood

By Jane

The most ruthless couple in American (fictional) politics, Frank and Claire Underwood are back tonight in Season 3 of the outstanding House of Cards. If you haven’t watched it yet – I’m jealous – get Netflix now and binge watch… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 25, 2015

More colour from NYFW & LFW

By Jane

I am in fashion week Hell currently, trawling through image after image of what we will be wearing this time next year – I know it’s a tough job but somebodies got to do it. So following on from Amanda’s… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 24, 2015

In praise of casual camel

By Amanda

In the madness of keeping up with the trends as they happen at Fashion Weeks all over the globe (well ok, we appreciate you might not ALL be as fussed as we are) and all that ‘double seasoning’ (it’s a… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, UncategorizedFebruary 23, 2015

Style Icon: Princess Julia

By Jane

As an impressionable young wannabe from the sticks, arriving in London in the early 80s I discovered that the club scene wasn’t so different to Northern clubs I had grown up with. Filled with the drag queens and “weirdos” we… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 18, 2015

Another new brand to watch: Day In A Life

By Amanda

It’s been busy old start to the year fashion wise, what with all the excitement on ‘older’ and then the new Finery brand to get excited about (did you buy? I did and it’s lovely stuff). Now here’s another, smaller… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 12, 2015

Style icon: Joni Mitchell

By Amanda

If there was a God and she happened to be female, then surely she’d look like Joni Mitchell in last weeks New York Magazine? Although would God be able to afford Lanvin, which is what Joni is wearing in the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 9, 2015

The BAFTAS: Older stye icons

By Jane

A recent interview in the Guardian with Patricia Arquette, features her thoughts on Hollywood, feminism and ageing in relation to her part in the wonderful film Boyhood where she was required to age naturally over 12 years for her role… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 7, 2015

Weekend Woman: Rosanne Cash

By Amanda

I was fortunate enough to meet Rosanne Cash when I went to New York last December, not at some fancy pants press party but at an afternoon sewing bee with my friend Kay, where Rosanne was busy making an Alabama… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 5, 2015

Middleagedmum.com: In praise of soft

By Jane

Whenever we have friends over for dinner we always end up sitting in the kitchen all night. I light the fire and lots of candles in the living room, but no-one ever quite manages to make the move from the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 4, 2015

Cold weather protection for older skin

By Amanda

While I love a bit of snow, cold weather generally makes my skin itch. My skin has got more sensitive to cold weather as I’ve got older and I shrivel up like a sun dried tomato at the first signs… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 3, 2015

Finery: A new brand to LOVE

By Jane

Not since the launch of our beloved COS have I been so excited about a new clothing range. And since COS is not exciting me quite as much as it used to (come back Rebekka Bay – now that Gap… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 31, 2015

Weekend Woman: Viola Smith

By Amanda

I intended to write about musician PJ Harvey as our Weekend Woman this week, as I’m off to see one of her Recording Sessions at Somerset House this week, but I am indebted to middleagedad who while researching for an… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 30, 2015

Denim Dudes by Amy Leverton

By Jane

We are loving the look of this new street style book, ‘Denim Dudes’ by ex-colleague and friend Amy Leverton. It explores the very best of denim styling from over 80 different denim obsessives and shows how a wide range of… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 29, 2015

The language of older: age appropriate

By Amanda

We’re not done with the conversation around what language we use when we talk about older here at TWR. We might be making great progress on getting older women on magazine covers and heading up brand marketing campaigns but there’s… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 28, 2015

Style Icon: Nick Wooster

By Jane

I have been trawling through the latest menswear catwalk collections this week for the day job and have been taken with the number of fabulously stylish older men outside the shows. Obviously they work in fashion so they are bound… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 24, 2015

Weekend Woman: Twiggy

By Amanda

Another week in 2015, another stylish woman who happens to be older than the average model is selected to front a major brand campaign. This week it’s Twiggy, who is the new L’Oreal ambassador for hair care. We’ve loved Twiggy… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 23, 2015

Style Icon: Marpessa Hennink

By Amanda

As Fashion Week/month approaches, it will be interesting to see if the current enthusiasm for older brand campaign models stretches to the catwalk. I wouldn’t hold your breath. There are a few designers who use the odd gorgeous older model… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 22, 2015

Beauty update: products you need to know about from our Good Housekeeping shoot

By Amanda

It’s far too cold to consider buying spring clothes currently and I think it’s madness to buy anything other than good sale finds in January anyway. So today we’re going to talk about the excellent beauty advice we were given… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 21, 2015

Older street style

By Jane

It’s the menswear fashion weeks at the moment (do they ever end?) and the biggest trend so far is neutrals (bet you feel like you can sleep tonight now that you know that!) for men and women. Doesn’t this older… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 17, 2015

Weekend Woman: Jo Malone

By Amanda

Did anyone else hear the inspiring Desert Island Discs this week featuring Jo Malone? Jo is one of our TWR perfume heroines. Everyone knows Jo Malone, it’s hard to overestimate the influence Jo has had on our fragrance buying habits,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 15, 2015

Universal Works, perfect for a mid life change of career for Middleagedad

By Amanda

As part of the Selfridges Bright Old Things programme, Middleagedad has had to be ‘press-ready’ in terms of his daily outfits, as there have been photo shoots to attended and parties to be seen at. What he wears has suddenly… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 8, 2015

Style & Literary Icon: Joan Didion

By Jane

I love Pheobe Philo for all sorts of reasons, not least because she designs wearable clothes for real women and has heralded a movement towards simple lines and pared down styling. Chosing the iconic writer Joan Didion as the face… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 5, 2015

Welcome to 2015, hopefully filled with more stylish and clever older women

By Amanda

Ooh it’s tough getting back to work after a long break, isn’t it? We do hope your festive holiday was fun, we enjoyed ‘unplugging’ from all things digital (although we were still pottering about on twitter and Instagram) and return… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 19, 2014

And the winner is…..

By Amanda

The winner of our Protected Species rain mac comp is Lorraine Tuck, well done Lorraine! The Protected Species team will be in touch shortly. In the end I thought everyone sounded very worthy, so I popped all the names on… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 12, 2014

Win a beautiful Protected Species rain coat, on us!

By Amanda

You may remember we wrote about the Protected Species rain mac and parka back here. I have hardly taken my parka of since I got mine, it is extremely practical -light weight for carrying, smart, snugly dry during downpours and… Read More