Mutton's guide: Holly Berry

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Thursday, 22 April 2010

Holly Berry and the over 65!

Holly Berry is a designer/maker/sustainable fashion creator and weaver whose work was recently featured on BBC2 Mastercraft. She recently posted an article on women over 65, illustrated with pictures of the pretty fabulous lady above, Anna Piaggi.
To read Holly's blog:
http://hollyberryideasdesign.blogspot.com/

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!

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