'Fabulous Fashionistas'

Are you speaking for yourself, jingle? . I can recommend walking with Nordic poles for bingo wings, and for toning up everything else!

Actually no. Most of the old girls in that prog.

Except the "relaxed stomach muscles". That bit is me.

Oh, and the mottled legs. Sodding late onset excema.

Hate long grey hair. So there!

Joan - I agree with you on the 60s stuff. I felt it was made for me too and I loved it. I was tall, slim, had long slim legs. Well, I'm still tall......

I'm just watching an episode of come dine with me. In there is an older lady wearing a rubber dress which looks awful to my eyes. Far too much droopy cleavage on show. The thing I liked about this show was there no mention of dressing to please men but, I presume, only themselves. Anyway the show was not about how they dressed but their attitude.

I think greatnan hit it on the head. I think they must have always been flamboyant in both their dress sense and attitude.

Yes it has all been pretty sad for my mother in law appygran and sadly she has passed on a lot of her attitudes to my husband, so that I feel he has missed out on a lot of life's pleasures.

At church this morning there was an older man (60s?) wearing some dark scarlet corduroy trousers and a matching red and yellow Hawaian shirt. He had a tall erect build, and showed no sense of embarrassment and he looked great.

Three cheers for the male, well not quite fashionista, but he showed the same joie de vie.

Deedaa - I know a few people like your mil. Someone I know got to 50 and said 'right that's it, no need to worry about dyeing my hair, wearing make up and worrying about clothes now'. I thought she was joking but she wasn't. Personally I have to try harder than ever now and hope I will always do so.

It's odd isn't it KatyK ? One of my friends had a hysterectomy on her 40's just like my MiL , but she went off and learnt Scuba diving and underwater photography and ended up winning a woman of the year competition in a magazine. Seems to me life's short enough without grinding to a halt halfway through!

I like to wear clothes that are practical but not dull! I'd like to be like Gillian!