Retirement Life Personal Image Consultant Offers Style
Barbara DesChamps is a personal image consultant and the author of two books, It's In The Bag: The Complete Guide to Lightweight Travel and It's In The Bag: Your Custom Business and Travel Wardrobe. As a woman over 60, personal image consultant Barbara offers style advice to readers of Retirement Life Matters. By Barbara DesChamps One: Find your best colors, the ones that make your skin … [Read more...]
How to be Stylish For Women Over 50
Ed. Note: How to be stylish is a great concern for women over 50. Sherrie Mathieson shares simple fashion advice for women. By Sherrie Mathieson As women age, bodies shift and it's often easier to give up than try to be stylish. If a woman in her fifties and sixties wants to be more style conscious without spending a fortune or changing her body, where should … [Read more...]
Fashion Advice For Building a Functional Holiday Wardrobe
Ed. Note: I’ve enjoyed Mary Lou’s newsletter for years. Not being a fashionista, it’s nice to have simple, common sense so I look and feel my best. By Mary Lou Andre 1.Think About Lifestyle. Before you shop, jot down the activities you'll be doing during the holidays, including any specific parties you'll be attending. Getting focused ahead of time about the types of clothes and … [Read more...]
Senior Fashion for Retirement
By Corinne Richardson How you dress says a lot about you as a reflection of how you feel about yourself and as an invitation to be treated in a certain way by others. Most people eagerly look forward to a senor fashion that requires little effort for retirement. Is that the best way? When I put the time and effort into looking as good as I can, I feel better. I have also learned that the … [Read more...]
Fashion Tips the Woman Over 50 Can Make to Improve Her Image
Author of two acclaimed style books, Sherrie Mathieson shares her fashion tips. Most women struggle with fashion trends throughout there lives. That difficulty increases for women over 50. In fact, the phrase senior fashionsounds like an oxymoron. These simple fashion tips will help you age with grace and style. 1. Buy the best quality fabrics you can afford. Aging skin needs the … [Read more...]
10 Fashion Mistakes Women over 50 Make
Women over 50 struggle with fashion trends. The phrase senior fashion sounds like an oxymoron. Avoid these fashion mistakes to age with grace and style. 1. They believe that 50 is "old" and that it excuses them to gain weight and let go of "healthy vanity". 2. Too much make-up or plastic surgery and obvious artifice. 3. Holding on to outdated styles (especially from the 80s!) 4. … [Read more...]
Michael Pollan Informs About Healthy Eating
The Botany of Desire Omnivore’s Dilemma In Defense of Food: an Eater’s Manifesto Food RulesReview You’ve heard him on NPR or seen him on Oprah. Michael Pollan begins his Eater’s Manifesto by saying “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” This seems like a simple concept, doesn’t it? His newest book Food Rules had its birth with this concept, which in turn had it’s birth in … [Read more...]
Sparkling, Shining, Bright Accessories
Ed. Note. Is senior fashion an oxymoron? Not according to fashion expert Marianna Ramondetta. Learning how to accessorize is the key to fashion success for women over 50. “As you go through life, girls, it’s important you learn how to accessorize.” That’s what I tell my third grade students. Why, you may ask, would I say such a thing, since the current curriculum emphasizes … [Read more...]
The Top Items Women Over 50 Should Have in Their Wardrobe
Ed. Over 50 women struggle with fashion trends. The phrase senior fashion sounds like an oxymoron. Sherrie Mathieson, author of two acclaimed style books, shares her top items to ensure women fashion style. … [Read more...]
Dress Your Age: Fashion for the Mature Woman
Baby boomer women often get frustrated shopping for suitable clothes. With the body aging into a different form, many women find it very difficult to know how to dress. Wearing super short mini skirts and plunging necklines may have been appropriate when you were in your twenties. However, senior fashion for the boomers is quite another story. Not wanting to look like an ancient granny, older … [Read more...]