Candace Karu can be found at her website of the same name. This post was originally featured there. Aging is weird. It happens in fits and starts. You go along for weeks or months, looking pretty good, feeling kind of fabulous about yourself and – boom- one day you wake up and something has gone …
Aging and fashion
“Sometimes I need to remind myself that taking time for me is not selfish but necessary.” – Author Unknown One of the ladies who entered the retail store where I have been working part time seemed so perplexed this past week. She wanted to upgrade her style as an over 50 woman, but was overwhelmed …
Three conversations. Over the past three weeks. All women who are 58 (the age was really random and surprising). Each one looked tired and appeared to have given up on their appearance. All made jokes about how they were old. In fact, as I sat with a group of ladies 45+ at a business reception, …
Last week’s column was about dressing too young for your age, and the resulting “fashion rules” for women over 40. Perhaps you can help me understand something! From a recent study of 2000 women over 50, The Daily Mail reports only 15 per cent claim high or very high confidence. Only 15%! This study concludes: …