I should have known

I should have known that getting older would bring wisdom. I guess it just didn't quite manifest in the way I thought it would, so I never saw it coming. People a lot younger than me are still better at putting so much of it into words though. I should have known that she'd dump... Continue Reading →

5 life lessons from Spaced

I figured that if '5 life lessons from...' was going to be a series on this blog, the next show I had to address would have to be what is possibly my favourite television programme of all time. Despite the fact there are only 14 episodes of less than thirty minutes each, Spaced had a... Continue Reading →

Ageless Fashion by Playful Promises

As a woman in her early 40s with a love of gorgeous underwear, I'm used to having to do a spot of brain gymnastics in order to imagine myself wearing a lot of the lingerie that catches my eye, because it's almost always shown on the firm bodies of young slender models. When I saw... Continue Reading →

Thoughts on agelessness

On a recent lunch time jaunt to John Lewis with a couple of colleagues, we found ourselves discussing the relative merits of different sewing machine manufacturers. The only overlocker the store stocked was made by Janome, and my colleagues weren't terribly impressed by this. I pointed out that the Janome sewing machine my parents bought... Continue Reading →

On not dressing like a ‘grown up’

A couple of months ago I spent a morning at work admiring a senior colleague's utterly immaculate all black 'power femme' outfit and wondered, as I often do, if I will ever get the hang of dressing like a grown up. You know, someone who always looks well turned out and appropriate in every setting.... Continue Reading →

Clothes, fit and perspective

For someone who has never really found her own niche, I'm rather interested in niche fashion blogs. They aren't always sites that you might instantly think of as being relevant to my interests either - as well as following a lot of lingerie focused blogs, I also subscribe to plus size fashion blogs, classic menswear... Continue Reading →

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