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Fashion & BeautyApril 18, 2011

Shopping with experts: LUCZA

By The Womens Room

e racer back silk maxi dress, also available in jersey I was much taken with That’s Not My Age’s austerity dressing idea recently and as this year is likely to be pretty light on spare cash to flash about on… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Middle Aged MumApril 17, 2011

Middleagedmum.com: the one where Carine Rotfield and I have a lot in common!

By The Womens Room

So it seems French fashion icon and ex Vogue editor, Carine Rotfield and I seem to have rather a lot in common! She likes a flat shoe (note the fashion singular there!) doesn’t buy a new ‘it’ bag every season,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 16, 2011

We love: A hat from Anthropologie

By The Womens Room

Having lost my Panama hat to youngest-teenageson earlier this week, I felt I absolutely HAD to buy this Anthropologie one I discovered on a quick dash into the Regent Street store last week. When I took it home and showed… Read More

Home & GardenApril 15, 2011

We love: RE at Liberty

By The Womens Room

We have mentioned before how much we love the homeware site and Northumberland based shop RE. Launched in 2003 by Simon Young and Jenny Vaughan, RE sells a really interesting mix of found, re- claimed, vintage and new furnishings and accessories… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingApril 14, 2011

Yohji Yamamoto, Ligaya Salazar ed.

By Amanda

This book accompanied the V&A exhibition Jane and I went to and loved this year (2011). A must for all Yohji fans.… Read More

Out & AboutApril 14, 2011

Easter alert: Bompas & Parr’s Chocolate Fountain and Rabbit Cafe

By The Womens Room

Oh lordy this looks good. Our favourite jellymongers Bompas & Parr are opening two rather exciting foodie events before Easter that might be worth watching out for. Firstly, in London they are building a five tonne chocolate waterfall in Whiteleys… Read More

Art & CultureApril 13, 2011

We love: A Collection a Day

By The Womens Room

Lisa Congdon is an illustrator and fine artist based in San Francisco and a prolific collector of old and unusual things. In 2010 she chronicled all of her collections in a blog called A Collection a Day, and we loved the unusual… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 12, 2011

Shopping with experts: Style-Passport

By The Womens Room

One of our old day-job colleagues has got involved in a new website venture that aims to satisfy your every need in terms of holiday purchasing. Called Style-Passport, it rounds up an edited selection of clothes and beauty products you… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 11, 2011

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer: what does fashion mean to you?

By The Womens Room

We were very flattered to be asked to be involved in this years Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign as we and had lots of fun making the video (eat your heart out French and Saunders!). Fashion Targets Breast Cancer was… Read More

Home & GardenApril 10, 2011

Shopping with expert: Sainsbury’s Cast Iron cookware

By The Womens Room

I went to visit the new Sainsbury's superstore at Crayford this week as part of the day job and was surprisingly impressed. We do most of our grocery shopping online now and buy fresh stuff from our local high street… Read More

Art & CultureApril 9, 2011

Watch this: Britains Next Big Thing

By The Womens Room

Any new designer or small manufacturer who has tried to get an appointment with a buyer from a major retailer, will know how difficult it is to get a foot in the door without some sort of introduction. Many buyers… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingApril 8, 2011

Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tanya Sanchez

By Amanda

Quite the best book you will ever find on how to buy perfume. The essays at the front are entertaining and informative and once you’ve read the reviews, you’ll never buy perfume without consulting it first ever again. Amanda has… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingApril 8, 2011

A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of a Misspent Life by Mary Randolph Carter

By Jane

Fashion & BeautyApril 8, 2011

Shopping with experts: Wallis 1923 collection

By The Womens Room

Do you remember we wrote about these gorgeous dresses by Wallis? Well they are due to be released on April 18th on the website and in selected stores. At £70 they seem like the perfect summer dress, but how good… Read More

Things We LoveApril 7, 2011

Hasbeen Slingbacks

By The Womens Room

The gorgeous sunny weather in London yesterday saw me wandering around Selfridges footwear department, slightly panicking about what look I was going to go for shoe wise, for Spring/Summer 2011 (we fashion folk actually do seriously speak in seasons, I… Read More

Out & AboutApril 6, 2011

Shopping with experts: Cybercandy

By The Womens Room

Whenever I go abroad on a work trip, I have to bring back presents, however small for the kids. When they were tiny they used to be thrilled just to see me come back through the door, as they grew… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyApril 5, 2011

We love: 1970’s, TOTP and Chelsea Girl

By The Womens Room

You may have noticed we have been enjoying rather a lot of 70’s style nostalgia lately, perhaps it’s all the 1970’s inspired styling we have been seeing on the catwalks, but we just cant seem to get enough of the… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutApril 4, 2011

We loved: The Selvedge Fair

By The Womens Room

Emma Lamb The Selvedge Spring fair was a joy as expected and very busy (very middle-class-middle-age, but in a nice way). One of the reasons it was so good was the thorough edit done on the stall holders, everybody showing… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingApril 3, 2011

My Mom, Style Icon by Piper Weiss

By The Womens Room

We hope all you mums are having a lovely day and have enjoyed breakfast in bed on a tray, and maybe even a small gift. We sometimes forget who were before we became mums and many women loose their confidence… Read More

Home & GardenApril 2, 2011

Afternoon treat: The Bronte Sisters Power Doll

By The Womens Room

Found via Kay’s post on the wonderful Mason-Dixon Knitting….fab.… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 2, 2011

Buy this: Super Strumps

By The Womens Room

We met two fabulous Essex girls at Semple Secrets, writer and lecturer Syd Moore and artist Heidi Wigmore, who recently launched their tongue-in-cheek card game of Super Strumps (like Top Trumps but with boobs and attitude) at the Women of… Read More

Out & AboutApril 2, 2011

Something for the weekend: Selvedge Spring Fair

By The Womens Room

We are VERY excited about going to the Selvedge Spring Fair today, the love child of World of Interiors crossed with the W.I (well in our vivid imaginations anyway). We're going, if you are too follow us on Twitter and… Read More

Things We LoveApril 1, 2011

The House of Hackney

By The Womens Room

If you are fan of minimal interiors, look away now, as this is about as over the top as it gets. The fabulous new luxury interior company, House of Hackney launched yesterday with a pop up shop in Dalston. It’s… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 31, 2011

Style Icon: Katharine Whitehorn

By The Womens Room

We went to another Semple Secrets last night, the last in the immediate series and goodness we have enjoyed them. We thought Grayson Perry was un top-able, but the quietly elegant Katharine Whitehorn, journalist and all round female style/brain icon… Read More

Food, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingMarch 30, 2011

Supper Club by Kerstin Rodgers

By The Womens Room

Ms Marmitelover and her stunning dishes at the Fire and Knives food event We featured the founder of the Secret supper club movement Ms Marmitelover – aka Kerstin Rodgers – in readers kitchens back in December 2009, as we loved… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingMarch 29, 2011

Vera: The Art and Life of an Icon by Jennifer Renzi

By Jane

Fashion & BeautyMarch 29, 2011

Shopping with experts: Denham’s victorian jacket

By The Womens Room

I love this Camino jacket by Amsterdam based Denham the Jeanmaker, a brand fast becoming a new favourite. Part biker jacket, part Downton Abbey maid, when the picture arrived in my email I was instantly smitten, and then I… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingMarch 28, 2011

Etcetera by Sibella Court

By Amanda

Home & GardenMarch 28, 2011

We love: Fabulous location houses

By The Womens Room

If like us, you love to look round interesting houses for inspiration, we have found just the site for you. I stumbled across JJLocations yesterday and lost a couple of hours nosing around some truly fabulous places. Set up 1987 by… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 27, 2011

Family stories: It’s in the genes

By The Womens Room

As I get older I am conscious that the storytellers in my family are all dying off. Aunts, grandparents and even parents are disappearing at an alarming rate and if I'm not careful all the wonderful memories that make up… Read More