what to wear at 60 plus?

but two words, not run into one.

Oh, I looked it up and thought it was spelt as one

Two words, and the fine lady apparently refers to Queen Elizabeth the First.
Or someone's great-granny as they would have you believe

www.rhymes.org.uk/ride_a_cock_horse.htm

A 'cock-horse' is a child's toy, a horse's head on a stick.

I like the Queen Elizabeth version best.

I thought a Cock horse was a stallion (may be wrong)
and the child's toy was something that was probably thought up because of the nursery rhyme.

"Banbury was situated at the top of a steep hill and in order to help carriages up the steep incline a white cock horse (a large stallion) was made available by the town's council to help with this task." Found this at forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1595627 but the poster had it as a quote without saying where from.

However, a cock horse is obviously a stallion (and the reverse is true - a stallion is obviously a cock horse ) The toddler riding his hobbyhorse would have hopes of one day owning a big hunter of his own. They weren't so coy about things in times past.

Call a spade a spade
(or a bloody shovel as the Australians would say)

One fail safe rule I have for buying clothes is to look carefully at the ones I'm trying on, then to look at myself in the clothes I came in wearing, and then decide if the new ones look better. An awful lot of the time they don't and I harden my heart and leave them.

Nothing I try on looks any good at the ultimate best it isn't bad

I agree about cover of Good Housekeeping, Fern Britton looks as though she has dressed from the dressing up box my children used to play with.

Me too, ww

I want longer jackets, but they all end mid-tummy these days.

My DGD look sweet for special occasions in those dresses or skirts with those frilly underskirts showing at the bottom.
Not a good look for a woman of 58 surely?

Deedaa that's what I do too

But what looks good from the front doesn't always look good from the back and I've often had to 'harden my heart' too, when something that initially got a 'Yes!' is seen from the back in those horribly truthful useful mirrors

I've just had a peek at Fern in her frilly floral frock, Jamila. She looks stunning in the photo, but I can only imagine how I'd look in that outfit without the help of the stylist and a bit of photoshopping. As if I'd just escaped from somewhere, I suspect
www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/lifestyle/gh-women-celebrity-interviews/fern-britton-june-2016-good-housekeeping-cover-star

Jalima, not Jamila. And definitely not what my spellchecker wants you to be, which is Kalimantan

I browsed the magazine rack in Wilkos on Saturday to see what she was wearing and saw another cover with the celebrity (can't remember who) wearing the exact same jacket with jeans. Do they only have one jacket?

Fern looks good, but you know she couldn't move about and still look good. Is it just me or does it look as if someone has just stuffed that net petticoat up the front of her dress-bit like a cushion?

Omg! That dress is awful and she's been photoshopped to buggery. Her head doesn't seem to match her body.

I like the jacket though (I can't seem to wear bikers and I'm not quite sure why...).

Is it this one? It's so pretty. Would be lovely for a summer ball.

Can't be that one. No jacket.

This one.

She is much thinner than she used to be. Did she have a gastric band fitted?

Yes, she did have a gastric band, I think. Wasn't there some controversy about her having lost weight, promoted a diet and then found to have lost it by means of surgery?
Or was that someone else?

Maggiemaybe Kalimantan
You make me sound like a Greek olive
(I do know it is in Borneo)

I'm not sure that DGD1 would wear that frilly dress (she's 7), although DGD2 may covet it! DGD1 might like the jacket though.

I'd wear it. If DD would let me.