Positive ageing with Suzi Grant, the nutritionist with a passion for fashion.
All in Fashion & Styling
You know how much I love rooting around at Vintage Fairs and retro shops whenever I can. So it was with absolute pleasure that I forced myself to go around all of Brighton's vintage stores as a recce for a blog coming up on vintage shopping in Brighton.
As summer rolls swiftly towards autumn/fall, I am wearing my shorts as often as possible, no matter what people say I should or shouldn't be wearing. A woman over 60 wearing shorts???!!! The very thought of it. Well, I happen to like the sun on my limbs and I want all the Vitamin D I can lap up before Winter emerges. I don't care whether I'm deemed too old to wear something I love, as long as I look in the mirror and feel good about whatever I'm wearing. Nor should you. So that's one extra style rule (no doubt published somewhere for the Over 50s) that I'm willing to break, wobbly thighs or no wobbly thighs. (And they're wobbly, trust me!)
You may have seen this jumpsuit on my Instagram feed recently. I bought it for an absolute song (about $40) at Trash in Byron Bay and, weather permitting, love wearing it in the UK. One pieces are an absolute pain when you need a wee in a hurry but I am loving this colourful retro look styled up with a pre-loved headscarf & vintage sunnies (both from Trash) and the necklace from Ghost and Lola .
You probably know by now that, despite my age, I love "raving". Nothing makes me happier than loud dance music DJ'd by a Famous where I can dance my socks off and forget my ageing bones! Fortunately, one of my oldest school friends, Dalia, also loves dancing and, even more fortunately for me, she's a Goodwood Member of the Richmond Enclosure, which means we can have a rave night in total comfort!
I am sure you saw a couple of "summer" blogs I posted in April, while we all waited for summer to actually arrive in the UK. Still waiting! I enjoyed a lovely collaboration with East Clothing, who sent me all sorts of goodies out to Australia to photograph whilst I was there.
These are my favourite summer jeans. Found in Napier in NZ, during a cool snap, from a great funky vintage style shop called Two Lippy Ladies, imagine my shock when I discovered they had come all the way from the UK, from Hell Bunny, an on-line retro store. Talk about coals to Newcastle! But they were still a reasonable price (about £50) but, sadly, I can't see them on their site at the moment.
