Updated 13th May 2020. I receive many emails from women over 50 who ask me for style tips about what to wear on different occasions. They want to develop their own chic style without spending an arm and a leg. In addition to wanting to know more about how to achieve a casual chic style, they …
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How to Dress to Look Slim and Tall
First up. I don't believe that skinny is necessarily beautiful, nor do I believe large is ugly. How to dress to look slim and tall is a blog post packed with helpful tips for those of us who do, on occasion, want to dress to look slimmer than we really are. I believe that every size is beautiful, …
15 Top Tips for Personal Style after 50
I believe personal style after 50 comes in all shapes, sizes and colourways. Personal style is all about finding what suits you best and what you're most comfortable wearing, for the life you live and then adding some distinctive accoutrements. Your Own Style Defined You might find that you …
Style Tips and Confessions of a Personal Shopper
I met Jackie on the first leg of the Princess Round the World Cruise. Actually we were bobbing in the warm waters of the Arabian Sea when we first said “Hi” . We were on a Desert Safari and Wadi Tour in Oman. Jackie hails form Kent, in England. She’s married to Richard (they’ve just …
5 Key Style Tips for Middle Aged Women
Autumn has arrived in SWA, and I don't know about you, but I love this time of year because it means I can at last start covering up the tell-tale droopy bits of my body that try to tell me I'm getting older. The strappy summer dresses and short sleeved shirts can thankfully be packed up and put …
10 Tips for Everyday Style
I'm a great one for dishing out advice about everyday style, and then not sticking to it! Especially as I'm writing this sitting at my computer on a stinking hot day in Perth dressed only in a black and pink sarong. Maybe that is my everyday style in the heat of summer in Australia - …
5 Tips I learnt from Advanced Style the Movie
I've just been to see Advanced Style, the documentary. It's about several older, stylish women living life to the full as they get older - the Lifestyle Fifty philosophy exactly! Ari Seth Cohen started photographing exotically clad women of an advanced age going about their days on the streets of …
Style Tips for Dressing Well
There are days, and I'm sure you have them too, when you are not really thinking about the clothes you put on, nor about style tips for dressing well, nor slimming tricks. So you pull out your most comfy, battered old jeans and a sloppy cardi or sweatshirt before pulling on a pair of well worn …