Build Your Wardrobe with Lifestyle Clothes
If you were a professional woman before retirement, you may feel like you need to build your wardrobe from scratch. The wardrobe you had in your professional world isn't going to fit your new life. The best way to create a wardrobe is on lifestyle clothes. You can build your own wardrobe by first looking at the activities you engage or plan to get involved. What kinds of hobbies or … [Read more...]
Creating a Wardrobe by Cleaning Your Closet
So, tell me, have you gone into your closet and couldn’t find a thing to wear? Most women have that experience at least once. It might sound strange to approach creating a wardrobe by first cleaning your closet. How many items of clothing do you have that you no longer wear? Some of the items may no longer fit you. Some may be out of date, but you reason someday they’ll come back into … [Read more...]
Looking Older Bugs Baby Boomers
Baby boomers are more likely to embrace getting older than people realize, according to a recent Associated Press poll. Baby boomers don’t like two things. One is being called ‘old.’ Many baby boomers also don’t like looking older. The majority of boomer women over 50 admit to searching to find ways to look younger. Fifty-five percent confess to coloring their hair and admit it is to … [Read more...]
Designer For Boomer Women Weighs in on Stylish Fashion
By Rose Gerstner As someone who designs primarily for the 40+ demographic (Boomer women), here are the critical factors I consider in creating my line for stylish fashion (and as a boomer woman concerned with dressing myself appropriately): 1. A good fit is paramount. It needs to work with your specific figure type, no matter how attractive the style may otherwise seem on the runway, the … [Read more...]
Expert Fashion Advice for Mature Women Over 50
Most women are unsure what to do with the effects of menopause. Bodies shift, tummies protrude, bottoms flatten and flab appears. Women still want to look their best and are often frustrated by stores that seem to cater only to twenty year olds. What does the mature woman over 50 do to feel youthful, sexy and age-appropriate? Expert Sherrie Mathieson offers fashion advice. She has costumed and … [Read more...]
Frugal Living Tips for Looking Your Best
April Braswell offers frugal living tips. I recommend as Boomers segue into semi-retirement and retirement is a hair beauty tip for looking your best. Stop going to the high end salons where hair color can cost $350.00 and more. Get your beauty treatments done at a Beauty School. Marinello is a national Beauty School chain with locations all across the country. In addition, there are Vidal … [Read more...]
How to be Stylish From Head-to-Toe
Ed. Note: In our series on how to be stylish, fashion for women over 50, Chris Hauri offers her advice from head-to-toe. By Chris Hauri While there are vast changes we can make to look great, here are a few easy and inexpensive steps for women over 50: 1) Get a new hair style. Visit a new stylist, someone who isn't going to automatically give you the same old look. … [Read more...]
Fashion on a Budget For Women over 50
By Patricia Lorenz As one of the first baby boomers ever born...just two months after WWII ended, I try to keep fit and love fashion on a budget. Tips For Women over 50: * Stay healthy and do three things to maintain a good, pleasing, healthy weight. EAT LESS EAT BETTER EXERCISE MORE * Being a normal weight does more for your fashion sense than anything. If you look good in … [Read more...]
Quick Style Tips for Women
Ed. Note: Style and fashion for women over 50 is always a hot topic. These experts share their style tips for women. As a professional model in the sixties, and a woman now in her sixties, I can assure you that the basic rules for looking stylish haven't changed. First, you must know your body type. In front of a full-length mirror, starkers, see yourself as you are today, not like you may have … [Read more...]
Look Stylish in Middle Age and Beyond
By Linda Arroz We are in a youth oriented culture and the images we see in magazines and the characters on TV are not typically middle aged. Many women feel overwhelmed trying to look stylish in middle age. It can be hard to find any role models outside our intimate circles of family and friends from which to draw upon for inspiration. While MORE magazine tries to represent women 40 plus, the … [Read more...]