Taboo Week: What no one tells you about getting older
I haven’t had a guest blogger week on Rarely Wears Lipstick since the days when I used to post regularly and wanted some content to schedule in before I went
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Knickers to the fashion industry’s narrow ideas of beauty!
Playful Promises are on fire right now and I just can’t keep up with the number of amazing collections and campaigns they’re launching, much to the excitement of their ever
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Ageless Fashion by Playful Promises
As a woman in her early 40s with a love of gorgeous underwear, I’m used to having to do a spot of brain gymnastics in order to imagine myself wearing
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Life, the Universe and Everything: Ageing
When you’re a kid, you can’t wait to get older. Someone asks your age and you always answer in a very precise way, because you think that 7 sounds so
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Thoughts on agelessness
On a recent lunch time jaunt to John Lewis with a couple of colleagues, we found ourselves discussing the relative merits of different sewing machine manufacturers. The only overlocker the
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On not dressing like a ‘grown up’
A couple of months ago I spent a morning at work admiring a senior colleague’s utterly immaculate all black ‘power femme’ outfit and wondered, as I often do, if I will
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Clothes, fit and perspective
For someone who has never really found her own niche, I’m rather interested in niche fashion blogs. They aren’t always sites that you might instantly think of as being relevant
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Better Lives: Using fashion to drive change
Before I started working at London College of Fashion, I’d not really thought much about fashion in a broader social context. I’d never considered how people engage with fashion and
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Search for a style icon
This time next week, I’ll be 40 years old. Birthdays have a strange way of making you think about ageing and the passing of time, despite the fact that we
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Representations and Reflections on Age and Ageing
On 29th and 30th October, I attended a conference entitled “Mirror Mirror: Representations and Reflections on Age and Ageing”, organised by Dr Hannah Zeilig of London College of Fashion. As
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