I never wear black. It makes me look as if I am attending my own funeral.
I do not have a style icon, but I do have style advisors, DD and, especially, DGD (15). if she says something is 'cool', which she did of my full fashionably shaped dress and denim jacket that I wore to her birthday celebrations this last weekend, then I feel really confident
I love colour, especially jewel and autumn colours. I wear a lot of brown in all its autumnal variety. In winter I wear jeggings, jeans and cords with richly coloured sweaters and smock style tops and the summer cotton version of that in summer.
I shop Culture Vulture, Landsend, Sainsbury's, Leclerc (big supermarket chain in France), Vintage, online and charity shops, and, at some time or another, almost every other clothes retailer around.