Let me tell you why this garment works!
This season is one where most of us emerge from the warm and comforting layers that have seen us through chilly times, hoping to find the right look for the next few (generally unpredictable) months.
It’s a bit of a shocker if you have been wrapped in swathes of [...]

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I always get lots of questions about legs. Indignant ones about why they shouldn’t be on show if the owner, despite being well over fifty, has good ones. And timid ones, requiring guidance on appropriate skirt length despite being less than forty. So it’s a very personal thing for each woman I know.
But I don’t [...]

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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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Ah yes the pussy bow currently a favourite of mine for adding softness and femininity to an otherwise earnest blouse is back in our stores.
Your choice will be all about proportion and balance.
At size 8-10, whether you are a straight up and down or an altogether shorter more curvy shape, leave overblown voluminous designs [...]

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