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Fashion & BeautyJune 15, 2016

Style Icon: Sarah Jane Adams

By Jane

Ever since Amanda wrote about jewellery designer Sarah Jane Adams and the StyleLikeU team’s excellent What’s Underneath project, I have been slightly obsessed with her. I love her style and can’t get enough of her sportswear meets boho looks on… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 14, 2016

A Grown Up Floral at Mother Of Pearl

By Amanda

Hard to believe, I know, but it’s sale time again. It is happening quite early for fashion because it’s (yet again) not been a great season, what with us all cutting back, getting nervous about Europe and, well everything else… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingJune 14, 2016

We’ll Always Have Paris, Trying and Failing to Be French, by Emma Beddington

By Amanda

I’ve been meaning to pop this book up for weeks now, life got in the way. We’re huge fans of Emma Beddington’s blog Belgian Waffle and have been since we started TWR. She wrote it anonymously to start with (it… Read More

Out & AboutJune 13, 2016

Goodhood: My perfect shop

By Jane

There is a lot of talk in the trends world about how actual shops will look in the future. A few years ago, in my WGSN days, I was asked about the future of retail – and I said “soon… Read More

Middle Aged MumJune 10, 2016

Middleagemum.com: The School Reunion

By Amanda

How were your school days? Fantastic fun and full of learning, or a grim stretch of miserableness and academic struggle? I went to an all girl boarding school in Devon for five years, due to my dad being in the… Read More

Out & AboutJune 8, 2016

Simple Pleasures: Relationship Goals

By Jane

Everywhere you look in London there are interesting people and things to see and it’s important not to become blasé and uninterested, especially when smart phones demand our attention on an almost constant basis – or it that just me?… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 7, 2016

Broderie Anglaise Shirt Lust

By Amanda

According to this month’s Selvedge magazine (issue 70), Broderie Anglaise actually originates in Eastern Europe, but it became associated with England because we Brits went a bit mad for it in the 1800s. Since then it has wafted in and… Read More

Art & CultureJune 6, 2016

What is Snapchat and do you need it in your life?

By Jane

Just when you think you have mastered social media – along comes something new to confuse you. I have written before about how I have no time for middle aged people who think it’s all about sharing what you had… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 3, 2016

Style Icon: The Queen

By Jane

Amanda wrote a post on the queen as a style icon back in 2008 and although I am not the biggest fan of the Royals – all those properties and lack of actual jobs etc etc – I felt the… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyJune 2, 2016

Women In Art and Style: Georgia O’Keeffe

By Amanda

I know all focus is currently on the fabulous new Switch House extension to the Tate Modern in London, but tbh I’m much more excited about Georgia O’Keeffe’s retrospective coming up this July. Women artists are at last moving centre… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 1, 2016

Slow Ageing at Babayagas’ House

By Jane

There is a lot of talk in the trends world about communal living being the future of housing, with young and older people tackling unaffordable rents and the needs of the elderly through shared housing. All too often these days,… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingMay 31, 2016

This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell

By Amanda

There is a new Maggie O’ Farrell out. I have not read the reviews, I have no idea what it’s about and frankly, I don’t care. Neither will you if you are a fan like me. All you need to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 31, 2016

Grown Up Boho Dresses with Ace & Jig

By Amanda

No doubt about it, the weather is warming up. For anyone who is thinking of a summer dress with an easy, boho vibe, can I suggest Ace & Jig? I was in Liberty last week and checked out the summer… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutMay 27, 2016

Dry Heat and Slow Living, by Guest Blogger Amanda Saurin

By Amanda

Amanda Saurin of AS Apothecary blogs today about Cypress, her home-from-home and a place she picks and distills some of her most important flower and botanical oils. I went to one of Amanda’s perfume workshops this weekend, it was even… Read More

Out & AboutMay 26, 2016

Holiday Inspiration: TWR Visits Grenada Part Two

By Amanda

One of the reasons why Grenada is such a delight to visit is the abundance of fruit and spices grown, so if you like your food (and drink -let’s not forget the rum), it’s great to go see everything in… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 25, 2016

Why you need to know about Everlane

By Jane

It’s an interesting time in fashion, as big brands struggle to keep up with the smaller more agile independents, which are often run by entrepreneurs with little or no experience of the fashion industry. Gone are the days when starting… Read More

Out & AboutMay 24, 2016

Holiday Inspiration: TWR Visits Grenada

By Amanda

Just in case you were looking for a bit of inspiration for a really special holiday, can I suggest Grenada? It’s a small island at the bottom of the Caribbean, very close to Venezuela, which is full of lovely people… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 23, 2016

The importance of a daily routine

By Jane

This film on Nowness features a group of Chinatowns elderly residents who have gathered daily in Columbus park for the last 30 to practice luk tung kuen, a specialist Chinese form of exercise. Discovered by video director Alexa Karolinski and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 22, 2016

Who won? The Results Of Our Protected Species Competition

By Amanda

We had some AMAZING design idea suggestions for our Protected Species competition last week, you really are a clever and generally fabulous bunch of readers. We gave Protected Species co founder Anne Muir all the results, she mulled over all… Read More

Things We LoveMay 20, 2016

Tried and Tested – Holiday Beauty Buys

By Amanda

While on holiday recently, I packed a number of beauty products that turned out to be cracking additions to the Holiday Must Have beauty list. First up, Percy & Reed’s Wonder Cleanse and Nourish, which is basically conditioner-as-shampoo. You may… Read More

Middle Aged MumMay 20, 2016

Middleagedmum.com: Heels, why would you?

By Jane

There are a lot of great things about getting older – afternoon napping (actually my twenty-something daughter does that too), only hanging out with people you really like, having the confidence to say no to stuff you don’t want to… Read More

Home & GardenMay 19, 2016

So you thought you knew how to make a cup of tea? The Rare Tea Lady puts us straight

By Amanda

The joy of writing this blog is the people we get to meet. From readers, to contributors, to the people we are lucky enough to interview, it continues to be a wonderful way of connecting with fascinating women. Last week… Read More

Out & AboutMay 18, 2016

Chelsea Fringe: What to see

By Jane

The Chelsea Flower Show takes place from 24-28 May and while there is no denying it’s still one of the worlds most prestigious horticultural shows, the sheer number of people attending make it vitally impossible to see anything over the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 17, 2016

Tonal Layered Dressing with Carina Hildebrandt (and Judi Dench)

By Amanda

I am very aware we write for a number of different style tribes here on TWR. There are those who would love to move into Dover Street Market and dreams of doing a supermarket-style sweep around the store (ahem,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 13, 2016

Giveaway: Protected Species Rainwear! And Thoughts On Women Entrepreneurs

By Amanda

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

Fashion & BeautyMay 12, 2016

Marks and Spencer A/W 16/17: What we thought

By Jane

This week was all about press shows as retailers launched their Autumn Winter 16/17 collections and after reading my recent post on M&S we were invited to meet style director Belinda Earl, who was interested to hear what we thought… Read More

Out & AboutMay 11, 2016

See This: The Dog Show at Brighton Festival

By Amanda

Regular readers may remember the love we have for Joanna Osborne and Sally Muir’s wonderful knitted and painted dogs (see here). When we heard they were participating in Brighton Festival with an open house, centred entirely around a love of… Read More

Health & Happiness, Middle Aged MumMay 10, 2016

Middelagemum.com: How to raise a good student

By Jane

Regular readers might remember my How to raise an adult post a while ago, where I talked about finding ways to step back and let our children learn by their mistakes. In response we had an email from Lucy Parsons… Read More

Out & AboutMay 9, 2016

The Mini Loaf is the New Cupcake at Pearl & Groove Bakery

By Amanda

If you ever needed a reason to toss all that ‘no-carbs-eating’ malarky in the bin-of-baloney, then the delicious new bakery Pearl & Groove is it. Run by three utterly delightful and grounded women, the Portobello Road based bakery offers an… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 6, 2016

Looking after Summer Skin, with Amanda Saurin and AS Apothecary

By Amanda

This is turning into something of a skincare week. While we wait for the weather to decide if we’re talking summer or (still) winter clothes, lets stick with ensuring we’ve all got our transitional skincare under control. Amanda Saurin, who… Read More