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Posts Tagged ‘fashion’
Do Heels Deserve Our Heart & Soul?
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Men will never understand the relationship women have with shoes.
I know that’s a blanket statement and I realize not every woman can relate. . . but I also know that most women over 40 – in fact all women – love our shoes. We don’t all treat them with loving care. But we don’t all treat our men/partners that way either. But we do indeed form relationships with our pumps, sandals and wedgies that defy logic or, better stated, define us.
Now, if you’re one of those women who defiantly pooh-pooh the rest of us for our zapato zest, you may as well sign off right now. Because this, my dears, is an ode to shoes. (more…)
Tags: fashion, shoes, style, women, women over 40, women over 50
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Sub Zero
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
When I was in high school with maybe a 24 inch waist, I wore a size 5/6 and sometimes a size 7/8. Now I weigh more than a tad more (some things I don’t share. . . ) and guess what? I still wear an 8! And sometimes a 6! And sometimes a 10. And now someone with a 24 inch waist wears a 0.
No, ladies, they aren’t making them smaller. Females, that is. They’re just making clothes bigger, so you and I can make believe we still wear the same size as we used to. (more…)
Tags: back fat, clothes sizing, fashion, fashion conspiracy, shoes, size 0, size chart, Spanx, women over 40
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Fashism Saved My Ego
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
What do you do when you’re out shopping – alone – and you just can’t decide if those jeans make your butt look big or just good and you start asking anyone who’s in the dressing room, including the 300 pound woman with the leggings ? Or, you’re getting ready for a party, you ask your partner how a particular dress looks, and he says, “It looks fine” or “I don’t know; it looks alright”? Like, he thinks that’s helpful?
It’s a dilemma, especially at this age, when things that looked great on us in 1980 now look (more…)
Tags: closets, clothing, dressing rooms, fashion, gay male friends, opinons, wardrobe, women over 40
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