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Broderie Anglaise ✅ Monochrome ✅ Cropped (and therefore perfect with high-waisted jeans) ✅. There’s nothing like a crisp cotton shirt when the sunshine hints at spring 🌷🌼🌺. And this one will work undone over a cami in the summer or even thrown on over a swimsuit. 😁Sold😁. #monochrome #over40style Shirt - @zara (new) | Jeans- @levis_uk Wedgie @laredoute laredoute (aw18) | Boots - @riverisland | Bag bought in Bali for £20. Details of similar on Stories ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Giving it all the monochrome🖤 (kidding myself I don’t always default to black and cream 😊) for @mumfordandsons tonight at our local club. Not a traditional Valentine’s date, but will be all the better for sharing the ❤️love ❤️with lots of friends - and hoards of moshing teens 😂. This shirt is probably the most worn item in my wardrobe. I always get comments and questions about it, but it’s ancient so I have put a chic but cheap alternative on Stories. I bought it just in case this one ever goes to shirt heaven 😂. #50plusstyle #monochromefashion Jacket - @hm (new) | Shirt - @noanoaofficial (ancient) | Coated leggings @newlook (aw 18) | Boots @riverisland (old)

Just this 🔺.❤️❤️❤️. #chooselove #helprefugees #katherinehamnett

You gotta ❤️ love ❤️ a little summer skirt that earns its keep in winter too 👍. This one was in the @comptoirdescotonniers sale. The dropped waistband is truly forgiving for rotund 🍎tums - is it pushing it to still be blaming Christmas for that extra poundage 🙄? #everydaylook #over50blogger Rollneck @uniqlo_uk (current) 🔶 Skirt @comptoirdescotonniers (post Christmas sale) 🔶 Boots @clarksshoes (old, but in stock)

Are you a multi-season ❄️🌞shopper? In the spirit of trying to consume more consciously and just bloody buy less, I want items in my wardrobe which work all year round. A boilersuit is incredibly versatile ✅. I’ve styled it a couple of ways here and put some other ideas on Stories. This was an out-out look 🎉 - but it dresses up or down beautifully. I wished I’d had a sparkly, stretchy belt - anyone spotted one recently? #keepitsimple #slowfashion Denim boilersuit @nextofficial (new) 🔸Blazer @hm (aw 18) 🔶Heels @asos (Old)

😳 Have you ever donated an item of clothing to a charity shop - and really regretted it 😳? I had a tiered @primark skirt that I loved with a passion. A ❤️passion ❤️ I tell you. It was the most flattering skirt I’ve ever owned. If you have big boobs, narrow hips and a flat bum, you’ll know there’s nothing like a tiered skirt to balance your silhouette. And that skirt was perfect. The fabric and cut belied its price tag. It took me to The Savoy, awards dinners, dressy parties. Then I lost weight (no regrets) and it got too big. So I gave it away. I wish I’d had it altered. And I have missed it desperately. It was just one of those wardrobe staples you take for granted - until it’s are gone. So when I saw a similar skirt in the window of our local British Heart Foundation charity shop, I was overjoyed. And it was my size. It was originally from @reiss and cost me £6.99. I chopped the bottom tier off as it was an odd length. It’s not the same, but it’s close enough to make me happy 😄😁😁. And there’s a certain symmetry with having replaced a donation with something donated👍👍. #charityshopfinds #styleover40 Jumper @uniqlo_uk (aw18) - Skirt @reiss (from @the_bhf and altered) - Shoes @officeshoes (aw18)

😏Bored of your old boots? Try changing the laces. I swapped the black laces on this pair 🔺for £3.99 black and white ☑️hiking boot laces and have fallen in ❤️ with them all over again. Goes to show you can breathe new life into an old boot 😂😂. Teamed with extra thick tights and a snuggly jumper, they’re helping me fight the ❄️❄️. #everydaylook #bigblackboots Jumper @hm (New - sale) | Belt @giftpopboutique (currently sold out) | Skirt @Zara (old) | Boots @clarksshoes (with @amazon laces. Old, but still in stock)

You gotta ❤️ Jen (even while envying her abs 💪). She insists on striving to be youthful and timeless whatever her age 👍👍. In an interview in this month’s @redmagazine Jen fights back 👊🏻against the agist stereotyping of older women, insisting deterioration with age is not a given. Slowing down certainly isn’t an option for most of us in our 40s and 50s, what with children, elderly parents, jobs, the bustle of daily life and the personal challenges we set ourselves. And, even without Jen’s wealth and health, we can all improve our minds and bodies in some way. All we have to do now is find the time 😁😁. #mondaymotivation #motivationalquotes #agingwithattitude

I love a 🖤black boot 🖤as much as the next woman, but suddenly, despite the cold, nothing but a white trainer will do 🤨. Is it because we are just so over winter and longing for spring 🌷🌼🌷🌼? I’m not sure, but one thing I do know is this look requires some cropped black leggings (tights would ruin the bare ankle effect) and lots of layers ❄️❄️. (swipe left for what I piled on top). How we suffer for fashion 😂😂😂. #midi skirt #whitetrainers Polo neck @uniqlo_uk (aw18) - Skirt @amazonfashioneu (ss18) - Trainers @vagabondshoemakers from @ASOS (ss18)

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As well as buying items and services featured in my blog, I am lucky enough to be sent samples and given gifts by brands. I accept only those I genuinely like and believe in or which I want to trial and report back on. I always clearly mark anything I’ve been sent or commercial activity within posts. In the spirit of How To Wear Well (ie not being an ass) my opinions are not swayed by having been given something rather than having paid for it.

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