This article came up on my Newsfeed on Facebook. Wonder what you all think?
Some outfits should be off-limits until you’re eligible for Social Security. Find out what not to do to keep your age a mystery!
May 22, 2017
by R.J. Wilson

This article came up on my Newsfeed on Facebook. Wonder what you all think?
Saw this article on women wearing beautiful hats to church.
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It brought back wonderful memories of days at The Del Mar Turf Club in the 80’s when we would go and wear the most beautiful hats we could find. We wore those hats to church and to luncheons and felt very glamorous.
I wonder where that glamor has gone. In Washington, the closest thing you see to a hat is a knitted hat to keep your head warm in the winter. Some atrosious thing that smashes down your hair with a puff on top. Not so elegant any more.
I found a couple of “very old” photos of me in a hat in the 1980’s:
I still have several of the hats from this era and have shared them with a friend for use in a Vintage Fashion Show. Don’t think either of these still grace my closet. I do wish they would become fashionable once again, as I love the idea of a new hat to go with a new Easter Outfit every year.
Gaudy or Good?
Iris Apfel is considered a “geriatric starlet” and a very senior fashionista at 94. How much of a statement do we need to make as we grow older. She has collected jewelry and clothing all her adult life and now has a collection of “couture” jewelry that has been featured at the Peabody Essex Museum, where she is considered the “Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel.”
When I am 94 I would love to be considered fashionable, but I do live in a small community and not New York City. How do you take “fashion” to rural America?
For one thing, I would never be able to wear that many necklaces without a back brace. One car accident too many, by this point in my life to have that much weight suspended from my neck. On another day, we might take on the conversations we have with peers about “health issues”. Maybe call it “Backache with Lunch”.
Looking to icons of fashion over the years, so many seem based on excess not elegant simplicity.
So where do you take this? Do you over-stimulate your eyes in the mirror each morning or do you look for an expression less overpowering? Or do you take some elements of style and look fashionable in slightly less exaggerated manner?
Coco Channel is stylish in a slightly less provocative manner. So pick your style, enjoy life and love getting dressed in the morning. “Fashion you can buy, but style you posses”. Iris tells us this. What is your over 50 style?
Maybe in a more rural environment, we just make our overalls more stylish?
Or better yet, maybe go for stylishly simple and elegant. Anyone can make a statement, but not everyone can make a good one.
Maybe less attention too excessive is good and elegance can return. What do you think? What would AARP say about this?
Some day I want an Airstream and travel around the country like a Vagabond. Here are a couple cute combinations, but I think I would go for what is behind curtain A. The second one does not look like might make up some of mountains and paths I would like to explore. Ah… Airstream dreams
Just finished redoing these. Great rocker and rocking crib. You need to add numbers to crib, but other than that ready to go. Taking to Red Plantation or make an offer. Asking $75 for rocker and $85 for rocking crib. Both redone in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and waxed.
I am finding that reliving older items takes more time than the money you can ever make from them. Maybe it is time to look for a full time job once again. I enjoy the refurbishing, but for the time and effort feel it brings little in return. Would love others advice on this.
It was fun redoing these 1950’s gliders to a more up to date look. I was surprised they sold the first day in the shop! Thanks!!
Stop and see my new and first ever booth #Red Plantation in Poulsbo. My dresses and a lot of fun “renewed” furniture projects will be featured there. My focus is mostly for children (and parents and grandparents). It has been a lot of fun getting everything ready. Hope you can stop by and leave a note.
Trying to pull together an interesting and fun booth that is a little out of the ordinary for my new booth and first booth at a Vintage Market at #Red Plantation in Poulsbo opening July 1st. Painted this and another one with big white Polka Dots on a black background today. Will show photos of my central backdrop when it is totally done, but think it will be fun. Then I just have to hope that people like what I put in it and buy, buy buy!!