Kathryn Bigelow
Meryl Streep
Queen Latifah
Helen Mirren
Mo'Nique (40 this year)
Vera Farmiga (still under 40)
Demi Moore (indestructible)
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Fashion and the trials and tribulations of a woman over 40
Mutton's philosophy
Generally mute on her actual age for fear of rejection, the middle aged woman needs to develop a split-personality. Not longer projecting youth, she still feels very much a woman. Not yet the wise old woman that she might never be anyway, she is not ready to disappear. Fashion presents her with clothes cut for prepubescent girls, shown on the catwalk by skeletal amazons and on fashion pages by teenagers. Through extraordinary mental gymnastics, she needs to imagine how those clothes and styles would hang and feel on her, a woman who looks nothing like the girls for whom the clothes were designed nor those who model them. Caught between two equally unattractive fates - fading into greyness or the ridicule of "mutton dressed as lamb", she needs to skillfully navigate the treacherous fashion waters.
Help is at hand! This guide intends to look at fashion and life through the eyes of a middle aged woman exploring the issues of ageing and identity in our youth obsessed culture!
Help is at hand! This guide intends to look at fashion and life through the eyes of a middle aged woman exploring the issues of ageing and identity in our youth obsessed culture!
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Who is Mutton?
- Mutton
- I am middle aged, I have lived in London for my whole adult life. I am a mother of 3. I now have a portfolio career after a 10 year stint in corporate life.
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