This season it's all YELLOW and FUSCHIA - Ageism is RAMPANT in fashion [bows]

[ahundredtimes]

Seriously.

No more boho chick they say. Now the moment is 'Biba and Ossie Clark. An early 70s, Art Nouveau-ish tripping off into the kind of tendrilly doodles girls used to scrawl on their bedroom walls after studying their hippie-romantic rock album covers'. Does that mean ANYTHING to anyone?

Can you be nearly 40 and wear a large silk corsage with style?

Can you be nearly 40 and wear a tea dress?

Can you be nearly 40 and wear harem pants?

Can you be nearly 40 and wear bright yellow?

Can you be nearly 40 and be in the moment?

No, I say, no. You cannot.

The revolution starts here.

[buttons up black cardigan, tailored black cardigan]

Any ones in particular, MI?

Ones targeted perhaps at ahem our demographic. Mind you I'm going to be 45 in June .

I actually think that I could buy Easy Living MI

it doesn't have the same connotations as my mil's Woman and Home

which alarmingly I rather enjoy

I've dyed it since I was 19

I get EL too. The fashion in there is definitely much more user-friendly, though much of it still out of my price range.

the paedo thread is depressng me
make me jolly/

i have got super new pale grey nail varnish from nails inc who also have a v good version of the chanel navy one which was all sold out in john lewis and hof. chanel same collection has a blue pearly wash to make nails look nice but doesn't matter if it chips a bit (have had a pink one for years).

phew grey andhow to do fuchsia

NB did you all see that the Chanel navy nail varnish (as hotly tipped on MN) was Going Up in the Sunday Times Style section?

Well, I've only read the OP.

You can't be anything other than a stick-thin, 5ft., 11in. model and look good in bright yellow, fushia, harem pants or any of that naff tosh that passes for high fashion.

And ugly clothes and makeup and accessories are unbecoming on anyone, no matter her age.

Re the magazines aimed at a slightly "older" woman - but I find these start out ok but after a few issues they revert to having the same sort of clothes as all the other mags....

Now obviously these magazine are meant to "inspire" us rather than show us clothes that are actually affordable/wearable for 99% of the readership , but I really never want to buy a magazine again with a feature on bikinis... even if I felt comfortable wearing one at my advanced age, I just don't live the sort of life where I would need to buy a new one every year!

I have a fairly new fuschia topshop top

now having mutton/lamb nightmares.

forgot to remove football thread disguise.

i think looking a tmagazines like vogue which i very rarely do to be honest is fun and fascinating but it doesn't really bear to o much relevance to me dressing

but i do have some pink things

never yellow

if you want to see some amazing ottt stuff then try looking at lingerie now

i persuade the guy i am seeing that he needed to but me some funkly underwear yesterday and we went round fashionable kingston looking and there were some really wow and stuff

the thing we like dbest tho was 332 quid

tis

FUCHSIA lol

I have a wonderful Fuschia coat with big pussy bow scarf

it is amazing

I am 41

cant do yellow though

Sadie Frost always looks great I think

not in the same league as VB

also I hope noone on here is talking about Easy Living as style bible as the fashion is truly dreadful (which is a shame as good mag otherwise) [stern]

ooh sf heading twds mutotn territory

ah now I dont mind a bit of mutton

I think endless 'good taste' is dull in the extreme

adm i think that that new gal they are tyring to hype aupa s the msot fashionable thign looks a shocker

mind you so do most fash journalists