I have been reading a slim volume: 'Somewhere Towards the End' by Diana Athill who is 89. It is very interesting and refreshing to read something from the viewpoint of someone who is very old. Thoroughly recommended for anyone over fifty, but also should be read by younger people. She mentions how Vogue invented an older woman "Mrs Exeter" in the late forties and started putting older women into clothes with fashionable shapes and colours which suited their age. Among the many things she tackles, work, sex, occupation etc. she describes fashion in an interesting way. I have been seeking 'older' clothes recently, and perhaps it is this look I have been seeking. These days there is still a desperate seeking to look 'young' which becomes rather pointless for people in their sixties. Mind you, being skinny, tall and old rather than fat and short would have been helpful in the clotheshanger stakes.
Anyway - I think I shall become an Ancient One and vote for all things Old.
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