Fashion
We all remember the famous scene with Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany’s all those years ago when they ventured into the exclusive Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York City to buy something special. With only $10.00 to spend they first rejected a sterling silver telephone dialler for $6.75 (in 2024 that would be a steal for sterling but in retrospect a…
Every so often we stumble across a book that offers total escapism. Jamie Catt Callan’s Ooh La La! French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful Every Day offers exactly that experience. At less than two hundred pages the book is a quick read and transported me on a mini excursion to Paris and Normandy. Callan’s intentions when she wrote the book were noble. Seeking to enlighten…
Can it be true? Is it so? According to The New York Times and various other media sources, Baby Boomers are being displaced by an even larger demographic—millennials born in the brief 1990-91 blip. Yep. They’ve surpassed us in the race to be the biggest, baddest, and most influential group of people to hit the economic market since, well, baby boomers. This sub-genre known as Peak…
It was Francesca’s red shoes that got the ball rolling. Francesca is an old friend of my friend Perry, and she lives in England. When she emailed Perry a picture of some outrageous red shoes she wore more than fifty years ago that she found in her attic, it set off a chain reaction of remembering what we wore back then. Perry sent the picture…
There was a time a few years ago when I questioned whether as an aging boomer, I was getting too old for jeans. That short-lived brain-lapse soon evaporated when I realized that baby boomers were the heart and soul, the very essence of jeans culture and we deserve to be buried (or cremated depending on your preference) in our treasured, weathered, and finally soft, vintage…
Lyn Slater is a retired professor at Fordham University in New York, a former social worker, model, fashion icon, writer, social media influencer, and advocate for positive aging. She is also one of us— a baby boomer. After following Slater for years on Instagram and Facebook as the “Accidental Icon”, I was delighted to hear she was working on a book about aging so I…
