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Neck News
[Original image unavailable: SHIRRED TURTLENECK-XL-BLACK, LT. GREY, CREAM] Do you hate what's happening to your neck--the sagging, the wrinkling? According to a recent New York Times article entitled Can We Feel Good Abo
Fashion Over 50: On Sale Everywhere!
Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to 2011. Traditionally, New Years Day is a quiet day for me, recovering from a late evening in Manhattan with friends (no where near Times Square, I might add). I usually spend the day l
Favorite Blogs For Older Women
Editor's note: This post was updated in November 2013 . In the past two years or so, the number blogs for "women of a certain age" has exploded. I've edited this post to include my current favorites. Is blogging the new
Style Over 50: Five Things to Avoid
Going out? Scroll down for 'looks to avoid' plus a few solutions I’ve been going into Manhattan two or three times a week since Thanksgiving for shopping, meeting friends, and seeing a couple of plays. At this time of ye
Fall 2010 Forecast: Fur Flurries
[Original image unavailable: KNITTED RABBIT FUR HAT-ONE-BROWN] The fashion gurus are telling us that looking stylish in Fall 2010 is all in the details. Simple or minimal ensembles require an edgy accent—leather, feather
A Stylish L.L. Bean? It's True!
Around mid-August, the first of the fall-winter catalogs arrive in my mailbox. On the cover was a young couple. The woman was fashionably dressed: skinny jeans tucked into high leather boots and a cropped green leather j
Post-Labor Day Fashion
I don’t know any over 50 woman who takes the “no white after Labor Day” rule seriously. (In fact, winter white is a trendy color once again this year.) What I do take seriously, though, is my desire to change up what I’v
Fall 2010: Keep it Simple
I Am Love , the beautifully filmed Italian movie in the theaters this summer, tells the story of a wealthy family in Milan. Emma (Tilda Swinson, 50), the wife and mother, makes a choice that complicates her privileged ex
Fashion Exhibit & More on Scarves
On Sunday, I saw the American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity , an exhibit of women's fashion from 1890s-1940s, at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The American woman's social evolution was reflected in thei
Ironic Outfits for Women Over 50?
In a recent posting on the New York Magazine website, New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, 54, asks: Can Women Over 50 Pull Off Ironic Fashion? To answer this question, she offers a slide show (click on blue title
Beauty Secrets of Aging Frenchwomen
The United States is not without its beauties over 50. With very little effort, I can make a long list—Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Angela Bassett, Andie MacDowell, Diane Sawyer, to name but a few. So why am I drawn t
Mirren-aculous
Did you catch Helen Mirren on the Daily Show the other night? Wasn’t she stunning? She's an over 50 fashion role model for me. Yes, yes, I don’t know what she looks like without a professional makeup artist or in harsh d