Hooray the maxi dress makes a welcome return this spring and summer as designers play with a variety of hem lengths. Less high- season and more high fashion, the new maxi lengths have more structure and sophistication but all the practicality. Longer lengths avoid the need for debates around suitable hem lengths and mean that [...]

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Last time we hooked up, I was talking about legs and skirt length. Well, as a long time wearer of trousers and trouser suits I’ve only recently (last couple of years) begun to feel at home in skirt and heels. I think that has everything to do with getting older and feeling more comfortable in [...]

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I am often asked to comment on models, their unhealthy shapes and their influence on us. I have been a patron of the Eating Disorders Association now known as BEAT for well over 12 years and for even longer I have been critical of my industry’s penchant for willowy types as one standardized ideal of [...]

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One of the many things I find fascinating are uniforms. No I don’t mean the type that involves shiny buttons and a double-breasted fastening.
What I’m talking about are the uniforms we need to get by in life. Mine include ‘Mum picking up at school clothes, ‘power meetings in town’ clothes, ‘fashion presenter on TV’ clothes [...]

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Whenever I begin a make-over, one of the most used phrases is ‘Please don’t make me look like I’m trying too hard. The next is ‘Don’t make me look like mutton dressed up as lamb,”
It’s an unkind thing to say and most women over 40 are traumatised by the idea that their fashion faux pas [...]

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