Style

Style ideas for women over 50. How to evolve your personal style at any age. Building a versatile and cohesive wardrobe that works for your taste and lifestyle. Women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.

  • Foulard de la semaine

    Another warm weather scarf option. Silk plissé (pleated) scarf, worn as a necklace. (Thanks again to Audi in comments whose suggestion for correcting the color…

  • Les Mystères de la Mode

    Une femme readily admits she isn’t the most fashion-forward hankie in the drawer, but some recent vagaries of La Mode have her flummoxed. One is…

  • Foulard de la semaine

    Oui, Virginia, you really can wear scarves when the weather gets warmer. This is a “Liberty of London” very sheer silk scarf, probably at least…

  • Getting Paid To Shop

    Sounds like a fantasy, doesn’t it? If you shop online frequently, you should know about Ebates. You sign up, and when you connect to your…

  • Foulard de la semaine

    This is the same scarf that I wore knotted a couple of weeks ago. This time I crossed the ends through a Chain d’ancre scarf…

  • Running With The Pack

    Last year prior to my first trip to Paris, I obsessed for months about what to wear and pack. Between mon mari, who is a…

  • Foulard de la semaine

    “Jardins d’Hiver” scarf with scarf ring. Jacket is J.Crew navy linen, purchased recently. Because the collar has ruching detail, I wanted to keep the scarf…

  • Embracing Your Inner Bourgeois*

    Or, What’s So Bad About Looking Respectable?*Title inspired from this comment from materfamilias on her post here, (responding to comments from the Scarves discussion at…

  • Age-Appropriate Yet Ageless

    That was my first reaction when I saw this at The Sartorialist today. Though I probably wouldn’t wear this ensemble myself (being short, the clothes…