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Middle Aged Mum, UncategorizedAugust 13, 2015

Middleagedmum.com: my middle aged sleep crisis

By Jane

If you don’t read the Telegraph or follow us on Twitter you will have missed this feature I wrote on the Middle Aged Sleep Crisis. To be honest most of my sleep problems are currently related to the menopause, but… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 12, 2015

A few long lasting summer jackets to consider

By Amanda

It’s been a glorious summer so far for not really needing a jacket. Well, at least it has been in lily-livered London, where we are protected from more bracing weather-patterns, but I’m off to Wales this weekend where I know… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, UncategorizedAugust 11, 2015

Buy These: Converse’s New Chuck Taylor All-Star II

By Jane

As a long time fan of Converse, I finally gave up on them a couple of years ago when I decided they were not only really cold in anything less than a heat wave and then they were too hot,… Read More

Things We LoveAugust 10, 2015

The Beauty Papers

By Amanda

Attention beauty fans, there is a simply delicious new biannual beauty magazine just out called The Beauty Papers, which hopes to ‘take the chains off’ beauty imagery, leaving behind the ‘pseudo glamour masquerading as beauty’ we’re normally subjected to by… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 10, 2015

Perfume review: 4160 Tuesdays, with Sarah McCartney

By Amanda

‘Project Perfume’, which has been keeping me as busy as a Labour Party leadership candidate for months, is nearly ready for launch. Exciting! Well, it is if you like perfume. It’ll be run by me (Amanda) as a sister blog… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 7, 2015

Transitional Trouser Lust

By Amanda

A quick post to inform you of some terrific trousers from Whistles. I’ve loved my wide leg denim trousers from the brand (these ones) and last week I saw someone wearing a pair of cut off orange trousers with frayed… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 6, 2015

How to extend the life of your sundress

By Amanda

I saw this wonderfully dressed woman, above, on the train when it was hot and she looked immaculate despite the searing heat and being mid-commute on a London train. She kindly allowed me to take her picture while I admired… Read More

Health & HappinessAugust 5, 2015

Tomorrow is Already Here

By Jane

Julie Simon is a photographer, stylist and wardrobe assistant, who lives in New York. Her latest project Tomorrow Is Already Here is a personal project which documents images of her mother ageing – in an attempt to stop time and… Read More

Health & Happiness, Middle Aged MumAugust 4, 2015

Middleagemum.com: making it through the menopause

By Amanda

There I was, quietly getting on with menopausal life, dressing in easy-to-whip-off layers, learning how to count to 150 before calmly putting down the kitchen knife and not murdering one of my offspring for putting his coffee cup on top… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 3, 2015

See this: Life in Squares

By Jane

If you haven’t heard about the new BBC 2 drama Life in Squares where have you been. It explores the lives and loves of the Bloomsbury Set – focusing on sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell – and is fabulous,… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessJuly 31, 2015

Natural skin care with a botanist bent : AS Apothecary

By Amanda

When I first started emailing Amanda Saurin, founder of the niche AS Apothecary natural skincare brand, I realised I wanted her life. On our first exchange she’d had just got back in from picking roses at Glyndebourne (where she has… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutJuly 30, 2015

Iris, The Film, is out

By Amanda

Remember we mentioned there was a film coming on Iris Apfel by Albert Maysles? Well it opens this week in the UK, we saw the preview recently and LOVED it. We all know Iris can dress, but the film shows… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 29, 2015

Miss Magpie Spy’s new range of cards

By Jane

We have long been fans of Miss Magpie Spy’s work and were delighted when she sent us a few sample from her new range of cards last week. I caught up with Niki Groom the woman behind the illustrations her… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 28, 2015

The O Wow! Brush, by way of India Knight’s beauty advice

By Amanda

I bought this Cailyn Cosmetics O Wow! brush after St India Of Knight (as Belgian Waffle so brilliantly calls her) wrote about it in her Sunday Times beauty column. It is for applying foundation/ tinted moisturisers/ mineral powder and blusher… Read More

Middle Aged MumJuly 27, 2015

Middleagedmum.com: How to raise an adult

By Jane

The new book taking the US by storm at the moment “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success” by Julie Lythcott-Haims looks at how US (and UK) helicopter parenting is… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 24, 2015

How to be a grown up: books to help you cope with mid-life

By Amanda

Before we started TWR, there was very little written help on what it was like moving from your 30s and 40s into ‘middle’ age, or what ever we’re calling that feeling of realising you are a proper grown up. Where… Read More

Fashion, Fashion & BeautyJuly 23, 2015

How to do older style with Italian Vogue

By Jane

The July issue of Italian Vogue features older women looking fabulous in an issue titled ‘Women of Today’. ‘Timeless’ by Steven Meisel and “Leaders of the Pack’ by Bruce Weber feature some of the coolest older women from around the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 23, 2015

Respect Your Elders, a film by Simone Rocha on Nowness

By Amanda

Here’s a lovely short film to watch by designer Simone Rocha and Nowness, on a touching pastel-coloured tribute to Hong Kong’s older stylish ladies. Having made a collection based on her Chinese grandmother’s style, ‘Respect Your Elders’, this is a… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingJuly 21, 2015

Companion To Scented Plants by Stephen Lacey

By Amanda

While on holiday I re did a bit of my garden and wanted to put in only plants that flowered and smelled fabulous. This book was on the review pile and became my sole reference for what to plant. It… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, UncategorizedJuly 21, 2015

Ethnic dress lust

By Jane

I have been slightly obsessed with these traditional Ukrainian embroidered dresses and tunics – known as vyshyvankas – for a while now after seeing Anna Dello Russo and various other fashionistas wearing them on Instagram. The dresses have become a … Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 20, 2015

The perfect transitional trainer – from adidas via Marni

By Amanda

Now we’ve returned from our Summer hols, in the fashion world, all thoughts naturally turn to winter clothes. As cashmere sweaters and coats start to hit the rails our inboxes are full of Christmas in July emails from PRs wanting… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 7, 2015

Summer Holidays at The Women’s Room

By Amanda

It’s summer holiday time here at TWR, Jane and I are off on our annual summer break for a bit of R&R, we’re back with you on Monday 20th July. Although TBH we’re never that far away from you, we’ll… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 6, 2015

Guest Blogger Jane Brocket: Shingle and Chips, A Short Guide To Aldeburgh

By Amanda

We are thrilled to have Jane Brocket guest blogging today, she’s still on her Grand Provincial Tour around Britain’s towns and cities, gathering information for more of her delightful Pocket Brocket guides. Today she’s looking at Aldeburgh. Flat marshes, shingle… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 3, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Cool Food for Hot days

By Amanda

Food for the heat this week, with our guest food blogger Jo Orr It’s such a pleasure when the idea you have in your head actually translates into reality. I was lying in tangled sheets this morning, cursing the fact… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 2, 2015

Perfume review: Alaïa by Alaïa

By Amanda

It’s hard to believe this is Azzedine Alaïa’s first ever perfume in a world where every designer jumps on the money making fragrance bandwagon. But Alaïa isn’t your average designer, he doesn’t play by the rules and prefers to work… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 2, 2015

Fabulous sun dresses that don’t cost the Earth

By Amanda

Sooo, here we are at that point in our British summer when it is properly, hellishly hot -yesterday was the hottest day recorded in July EVER. You discover you have nothing in your wardrobe that looks remotely like it would… Read More

Home & Garden, UncategorizedJuly 1, 2015

More Urban Gardens at Grow London

By Jane

Remember a couple of years ago we predicted a house plant revival. Well now you can’t move (well in East London anyway) for succulents, cheese plants and cacti. The house plant trend is now definitely a thing and has opened… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 30, 2015

New designer crush: Rachel Comey

By Amanda

Attention womenfolk, there’s a terrific womenswear designer – fairly new to the UK – to take note of, her name is Rachel Comey. We met Rachel, who is from the US and has a strong following amongst the cool arty… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & About, UncategorizedJune 29, 2015

The Flower Appreciation Society: An A – Z Of All Things Floral

By Jane

I have been a huge fan of the vintage style of the Flower Appreciation Societie’s casual approach to flowers for some time now, not least because they are big fans of ceramic swans (I have an ever growing collection), and… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingJune 26, 2015

Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon

By Amanda

I love stories of girls in bands, maybe I really want a bit of rock & roll in my life…and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon has written one that is better than most. Fessing up, I’m not much of a Sonic… Read More