Fashion Advice for Women:
Fashion advice for women is everywhere. |
Television, magazines, and books offer bountiful opinions on how to dress.
Very little fashion news is aimed at the over-50 female.
The most inspiring fashion advice for women is the example set by Delores De Vega, 72, for her enthusiastic competition against women half her age for a $100K and a modeling contract on She's Got the Look in 2009.
Among her inspiring words in an exit interview was for society's seniors to pursue dreams that we may have given up earlier in our lives.
Books are a fabulous source of fashion advice for women, as well as inspiration.
Broaden your horizons.
Due to copyright restrictions, many of the best fashion photos are not available online. Your local library probably has many books with fashion advice for women for you to browse.
Educate Your Fashion and Style Sense at Your Local Library
Fashion guides cover the fundamentals of dressing for color, body type, and wardrobe planning. Branch out to read about how dynamic and creative women create their own fashion looks.- Well-dressed famous women, such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Audrey Hepburn, had more to offer the world than a a closet full of designer clothes.
- Fashion editors, such as Diana Vreeland, invent fashion statements. Be inspired, and invent your own.
- Collections of the work of famous fashion photographers, such as Richard Avedon, can be pricey. These, too, may be found in libraries. Most have Interlibrary Loan services. If what you want isn't at your local branch, ask.
- Artists, writers, and designers often have well-developed and unique fashion tastes. Study not only their photos but their philosophy to become a style leader, instead of a follower.
Please scroll down to see a list of reviews for books, magazines, television and film about fashion and style of interest to women of a certain age.
Some Sources for You
Diana Vreeland was a fashion force unto herself as editor of Vogue. She emphasized drama, details, and developing unique style.Her autobiography, C.V. is a galloping romp through several decades of history and fashion.
Bringing fashion into the contemporary era, Eccentric Glamour by Simon Doonan is witty and fun to read. Doonan is Barney's of New York stylist and a frequent television fashion commentator.
An essential read is Tim Gunn's Guide to Style by a man who is a candidate for nicest guy in the fashion world.
If you like your fashion advice with a dose of social history, Pants by Laurence Benaim shows how the battle of who wears the trousers in the family reflects the struggle for women's rights. This lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome is now rather expensive but may be available through your inter-library loan service.
Creativity Flows When We Express Our Wild Inner Selves
Fashion advice for women -- especially women of a certain age -- starts with self-understanding. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run with the Wolves has motivated me and many other women to recover our creative selves.Fashion can be an artful practice. My review of Women Who Run with the Wolves includes links to my first blog, Just an Ordinary Gal Doing Ordinary Things where I review print and audio books about Jungian archetypes and creative aging.
- Women Who Run with the Wolves (Estes)
- Essential Style, Essential Self is a collaboration between fashion expert Alyce Parsons and personality systems experts Kathy Hurley and Theodore Donson.
- Ready to Wear: An Expert's Guide to Choosing and Using Your Wardrobe (Andre)
If I could have only one book of fashion advice for women, this would be it.
- Style Rx: Dressing the Body You Have to Create the Body You Want (Berkowitz)
This book introduced me to the concept of contrast between skin tone and clothing.
- Coco Chanel on Lifetime TV (review)
The best style advice for women in this Lifetime-TV chick-flik: Everything is fashion. Like culture, fashion and style about a way of living to cultivate beauty around us.
- Vogue's Annual Age-less Issue & Other Magazine Classics
Just An Ordinary Gal Fashion
And Culture Posts - Growing old with style is depicted as a process of conscious aging in The Living Spirit of the Crone by Sally Palmer Thomason. If you are interested in feminist efforts to revitalize the wise crone archetype as a woman symbol of power, this book is fluently written and highly readable.
- Bubble Frenzy for Lady Gaga's Dress has quite a history in the annals of entertainment.
- Fashion Guru Throw Down: Tim Gunn versus Simon Doonan.
This book influenced my decision to start my blog, and that lead to this website. Thank you, Dr. Estes.
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