Why Should There be an Age Limit to Style?
I can’t tell you how many women (as they say, if I had $1 for every time someone said to me I’m too old to be stylish, well I’d have quite a few more dollars!) think they are too old to either care about style, image and their clothing and accessories choices. This I find a very sad state of affairs as I know from experience myself, but also the experiences of my Evolvers (Evolve Your Style members) and 7 Steppers (7 Steps to Style members) just how much finding your style and expressing your style through your clothes and image can make you feel:
- More confident
- More attractive
- More capable
and it raises your self-esteem and I’ve even had clients tell me that they think it has also improved their health and helped them lose weight, as well as opening up doors to fabulous new opportunities.
Style is way more than skin deep. It cuts to our core as a human.
Every culture has developed ways of adorning themselves and this is always an important part of their culture. Why should you be any different? Why should it suddenly end at a certain age?
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Take notice of how you talk about your style and image. How often you justify poor dressing choices with any sentence that starts with “I’m just ….” or “I’m only ….” or “I’m too tired/sick/insert excuse here”, “I can’t be bothered”, “It doesn’t matter ….” or “Nobody notices….” or any other excuse you tell yourself. Try and stop yourself in your tracks and see what self-talk you are having and then ask yourself if that excuse is a good excuse … and really should you be excusing yourself? Would you excuse others in the same way?
Feel that you just don’t know how to dress your changing body? Then why not get one of my free Body Shape Bibles after you do my body shape calculator quiz. If you want my professional opinion and lots of information about how to decide on your style and what really suits you, that’s what my 7 Steps to Style program is all about.
Why not challenge yourself to dress with care every day for a month? Do it with a great bunch of women who are also wanting to improve their styles through Evolve Your Style. Just by taking a few extra moments each day (and it’s not a lot) you will discover very quickly so much more about what you do and don’t love wearing, get some great tips and what’s working and try something new which will change the way you think about your style.
Discover 11 ways you can up your style quotient.
And then look for some great inspiration for women who are stylish by reading up on the blogs listed below. And please, if you know of any great (and I know there are many out there) blogs by stylish women over 50, then please do leave a link here in the comments.
Hi, Imogen, love your blog and value your style advice highly. I would like to recommend the following blogs for over 40’s (most ladies are actually over 50):
Hot and Flashy 50 (skincare and makeup, as well as fashion)
The Barefaced Chic (fashion and life advice)
Elegance Revisited ( fashion and travel)
Petite Silver Vixen (petite fashion)
How to be chic (lifestyle)
The Daily Connoisseour (manners and elegant living from the author of Madam Chic books, who is in her 30’s)
The Sequinist (fashion and beauty)
Fabulous after 40
As you can see I’m somewhat addicted to style blogs, well, it’s harmless enough.
Thanks for the list Joanna – I will check them out.
I’ve written about style and age on my blog many times. Honestly, we all have our personal style–no matter what our age is. I think the thing with older women, at times is the fact that the fashion industry as well as the media and beauty industry has all but ignored older women and concentrates on the younger, thinner, less wrinkled and less sage younger woman.
Ageism will continue to run rampant. And it is something that bothers me and I’m rather vocal about it: https://atypical60.com/2016/01/13/shit-old-ladies-do/
https://atypical60.com/2016/05/14/enough-of-this-shift-do-you-hair-me-my-version-of-advanced-style/
My take–and I march to the beat of my own drum!
I suggest ladyofstyle.com
Beth at Styleatacertainage.com nails classic preppy style.
So many great tips. Style is timeless and shouldn’t end with age. xo ~ Megan The Fashionista Momma
Really, really love the curly hair! Is that curled or natural? (Usually see you straight, hope not rude question?). I ask because I, along with many, have difficult, very wavy/curly hair and so difficult to get a good cut or dry without it being treated as straight/dried straight by hairdressers. One of my bugbears, as straight does not suit and goes into curls anyway, as soon as I hit – rain, mist, the shower, ironing, doing the washing up -you name it.
That’s curled by a Vidal Sassoon Curl Secret machine http://bit.ly/2aNKH8L With curly hair I recommend finding a hairdresser with naturally curly hair as they know much better how to cut curly hair than someone with straight hair.
Thanks for linking up to Top of the World Style. Love your banner of this post! Great all bluish look
I’d also like to recommend That’s Not My Age, a blog by Alyson Walsh – brilliant if faff free dressing floats your boat, or Modern Gentlewoman style appeals. It’s a whole lifestyle blog, rather than just fashion.