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Extending Summer Into Fall with a Twiggy Dress

Now that we’ve turned the clocks back, the sun sets around 4:30 in Seattle. From where I sit, the bottom of the sky is pink, the water and overhead sky are steel, and the hill rising up from the Alki Peninsula sparkles with lights of people living past dark. Here in Seattle, early darkness generally means chilly evenings. To …

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Fab Collab: Fab in Plaid at Seventy-Plus

All of our closets contain stories. So many pieces carry memories. Which ones mean the most to you and why? The Fab Collab I’m doing this week with the beautiful ladies of JTouchofStyle.com is all about those memories, centered on a classic fall pattern: plaid. On Monday, I shared stories about a special skirt my mom wore as a girl and a dress …

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Fab Collab: Fab in Plaid at Sixty-Plus

All of our closets contain stories. So many pieces carry memories. Which ones mean the most to you and why? The Fab Collab I’m doing this week with the beautiful ladies of JTouchofStyle.com is all about those memories, centered on a classic fall pattern: plaid. On Monday, I shared stories about a special skirt my mom wore as a girl and a dress …

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Fab Collab: Fab in Plaid Over Forty

The Fab Collab is back! Jodie, Nancy, and Charlotte from JTouchofStyle.com have joined me this week to feature a pattern many of us associate with fall — plaid! Pretty much all of us have some personal experience with this classic pattern, even if that experience goes back several decades. For this collaboration, the ladies and I share our stories …

1930s Starlet Myrna Loy in a side-by-side collage with Sherry Dryja, modern-day fashion blogger of Petite Over 40.
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Starlet Bling for Dainty Wrists

The starlets of the 1930s loved their jewelry. Pictured above, 1930s actress Myrna Loy appears to be dressed casually but her bracelets are the stuff of red carpets today. When it came to jewels and accessories, the rich and famous in the 1930s believed in the old adage that “more is more.” Even as the rest of the world struggled …

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Print-Mixing 101 with Marlene Dietrich

“Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.” ~ Marlene Dietrich Class is in session. Marlene Dietrich–Head Professor of Glamour–is leading the class with her stunning polka-dot print …

Ginger Rogers beach pajamas collage.
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Easy, Breezy, and Beachy, 1930’s Style

While all of you brave and beautiful ladies are basking in your swimsuits by the pool this summer, you’ll find me in the shade, likely nowhere near the pool, but still embracing a beachy trend straight out of the Twenties and Thirties: Beach Pajamas. This loungewear got its start as bedroom attire. Before long, it was being …