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Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutOctober 7, 2010

We love: the Mad Men effect

By The Womens Room

Mad Men has to be our all time favourite TV programme. It is the perfect combination of subtlety, glamour and nostalgia. We cant quite believe we were actually alive then, albeit small children, but we do vaguely remember our mums… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 6, 2010

Le Labo’s perfumed note pad, and a home made version

By The Womens Room

Being something of a perfume and stationery geek, when I heard the French perfume company Le Labo (which makes one of my favourite rose perfumes, Rose 31) made a note book impregnated with scent, I just had to find out… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 5, 2010

Shopping with experts: WR reader Zoe

By The Womens Room

We really do have the loveliest readers. Last week, on a particularly grey and rainy day, when we were feeling a bit down in the dumps and Autumnal, we got an email from Zoe, a reader from Northampton who had… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessOctober 4, 2010

What makes you think ‘I’m too old’ when you buy clothes?

By The Womens Room

Pic from thedailymail.co.uk This week TWR had an emergency text from one of our favourite independent stores, Nom de Plume in East Sheen. "Help!" texted Pippa, 'what should I say to the MANY women who try something on, LOVE it,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 3, 2010

Milan Fashion Week: our absolute favourite

By The Womens Room

Images from Style.com For us there was really only one collection that we absoloutley loved at Milan Fashion week and that was Jil Sander. Designed by Raf Simons, the super bright colours in cleverly cut, yet understated shapes, summed up… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 2, 2010

Style Icon: Mrs Prada

By The Womens Room

Picture from The Sartorialist Looking at Miuccia Prada's end of show bow on The Sartorialist yesterday, I thought her skirt looked the absolute perfect length. The issue of length has been troubling me a lot recently. To show a knobbly… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 1, 2010

RIP: Tony Curtis

By The Womens Room

There was a time when there were no boy bands, no X Factor, no celebrity magazines and only two soap operas on TV (Crossroads and Coronation St) and neither of them featured handsome men. Young girls growing up in the… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 30, 2010

Tea time treat: What advertisers should have done with washing powder ads.

By The Womens Room

This is something to make you laugh this afternoon, I think it's genius. Makes you wonder why advertisers have spent so long trying to flog women washing powder by showing us perfect/organised/yummy mummies, when all they need to do was… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 30, 2010

Sonia Juttla helps out: part two- bronzers, lipstick and kohl

By The Womens Room

Where were we on the lovely Sonia? Oh, yes, here. When Sonia mentioned bronzers, I almost told her not to bother, it's another one of those products that just wasn't around when I learnt how to do my make-up routine aeons… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 29, 2010

Style icon: Chantal Biya

By The Womens Room

Ok, we may be being a little ironic here when we call the first lady of Cameroon Chantal Biya a style icon, as she isn't really stylish in the conventional sense. But there is something truly fabulous about her, in… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 28, 2010

Skin care & beauty tips: Sonia Juttla helps us out

By The Womens Room

We recently found ourselves in the back of a taxi (a Green Tomato Cars taxi, as this was after the Timberland event) with the style and beauty writer Sonia Juttla. Sonia is a complete beauty geek and has been obsessing about… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 27, 2010

LFW: our favourites

By The Womens Room

Jonathan Saunders (all images from Style.com) What with all our favourite fashion journalists Tweeting directly from the Spring/Summer shows and lots of brands live streaming their collections, we almost felt like we were at London Fashion week. If you like… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 26, 2010

Pearl Lowe at Peacocks: more 40plus designing

By The Womens Room

Ok, so Pearl Lowe might not be your idea of a style icon for the over 40s (perhaps a bit too old rock chick hanging on to an moment in time that has gone, Pearl?) but all credit to her… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 26, 2010

For us forgotten women: 40+ at Debenhams

By The Womens Room

Debenhams has launched a campaign to help us 'forgotten women' (its words, not ours) ie those of us over 40, dress better. The department store is to feature models aged 40, 50 and 60 years old in its autumn campaign,… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 25, 2010

Autumn/Winter wish list: from Toast

By The Womens Room

As you know we love Toast here at TWR and this season is no exception. We tend to go for the simpler less complicated styles with subtle details. The combination of high quality fabrics and non fashion – fashion means… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 24, 2010

Something for the weekend: London Design Festival

By The Womens Room

The garage pop up store for Studio Toogood in North Terrace, SW3 2BA, Your intrepid reporters have had a busy week this week, Jane has had her head buried in catwalks for London Fashion Week and I have been cavorting… Read More

Middle Aged MumSeptember 23, 2010

The new baby

By The Womens Room

While Amanda has been letting go of the apron strings as her middle son leaves for university, I have become the proud owner of a new puppy. Perhaps I have been influenced by Amanda’s underlying anxiety over the past few… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 22, 2010

We love: Mint Velvet

By The Womens Room

Last week we were invited to meet the crew at Mint Velvet, a small design brand that’s just one year old, selling really nice clothes you can wear without having to think too hard. When we got there, it turned… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingSeptember 21, 2010

Crazy Age – Thoughts on Being Old by Jane Miller

By The Womens Room

When one reaches middle age, all sorts of realities start to hit home. The fact that we growing older can start to cause a certain amount of anguish in those rare moments alone, when one contemplates the not so distant… Read More

Middle Aged MumSeptember 20, 2010

Middleagedmum.com: letting go….

By The Womens Room

Middleagedad and I, having lugged what feels like the whole of Ikea, Waitrose and The White Company combined up a double flight of stairs, start to unpack middle teenageson's stuff in his new room in halls. 'You can go now… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 19, 2010

NYFW: our favourites

By The Womens Room

Proenza Schouler (all images from Style.com) Last week saw fashions great and good make their way to New York, to view what we will be wearing in Spring/Summer 2011. Actually, we will probably be wearing slightly inferior High St versions… Read More

Art & CultureSeptember 18, 2010

We love: Elizabeth Gilbert

By The Womens Room

So, on Wednesday night TWR and our lovely reader guest Corinna Gordon Barnes (check out her inspiring website for help on starting up a business) went to listen to Elizabeth Gilbert (she of Eat, Pray, Love fame) at the Intelligence… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 17, 2010

We love: Hel Yes

By The Womens Room

We do love a pop up restaurant or shop and are always up for a new concept. This week the lovely Jane and Vishal from The Dog and the Wardrobe, invited us along to the opening of the latest pop… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 16, 2010

We’re jamming…….

By The Womens Room

It's been a big year for jam in our house, due to a glut of pears and plums in the garden and the afore mentioned cherries. I have worked my jam making machine VERY hard (playing Bob Marley in the… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, We Are ReadingSeptember 15, 2010

Blow by Blow by Detmar Blow

By The Womens Room

Isabella Blow was a true English eccentric and a legendary figure in the fashion industry. As fashion editor on US Vogue, Uk Tatler and The Sunday Times, she championed young designers such as Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen, and was… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 14, 2010

We love: Tom Ford’s glam older models

By The Womens Room

Pic of Tom and Daphne Guinness by Cathy Horyn of the New York Times, read what she thought of Tom's collection on her blog On The Runway Oh let's hear it for Tom Ford, marketeer extraordinaire, who managed to steal… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 14, 2010

We love: vintage ladies at Hammersmith fair

By The Womens Room

This Sunday we shunned the beautiful sunshine and spent nearly the entire day tucked away inside Hammersmith Town Hall, rummaging through racks of vintage clothes at the London Vintage Fair. organised by P&A Fairs. It's a great event, I love… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 13, 2010

The invisible designers

By The Womens Room

Yesterday saw Victoria Beckham unveil her fifth collection at New York fashion week and very nice it was too. Cleverly cut, body hugging dresses in lovely fabrics. I was skeptical about her range until I saw it in real life,… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 12, 2010

Cycling with Timberland

By The Womens Room

More bikes! But this time organised by the nice people at Timberland, who got REALLY lucky with the weather last week when they organised a glorious cycle trip down the Regent's Canal in London without it raining. It must have… Read More

Art & CultureSeptember 11, 2010

We loved: Peggy Mitchell

By The Womens Room

Having watched Eastenders from day one (with gaps in the middle when small children took over the 7.30pm viewing slot) I could probably score quite highly if 'the lives and loves of Eastenders characters', were my specialty subject on Mastermind.… Read More