Peggy’s Podium

There she is again. Madame fashion Peggy Weijergang is back to visit our platform from time to time. To tell us what is truly tasteful and how you can also look good when you suddenly become a day older. Because dressing well is for all ages and when you are older, you do it like this. Dearest Peggy, take it away…

Senior style

Style is ageless, but it also has to do with dressing according to your age and occasion. You are not a fashion icon if you rip open a costume box and use the credo ‘more is more’.

If you google ‘senior style’, there is a good chance that a portrait of Iris Apfel will fill your screen first. You know, the well-known fashion personality, influencer, and style icon who recently celebrated her 94th birthday (with that iconic giant round frame). Understand me correctly, I think it is fantastic and commendable that the older/mature/adult woman, despite a higher age, has not let her vanity be taken away and still spends attention and time to look attractive, but pfff, sorry, a fashion icon and a style example for the older woman? Man oh man, is it really the intention that this should be accompanied by an abundance of bells and whistles that in this case are synonymous with enormous rows, mega heavy chains, and a multitude of striking bracelets that make you (just by looking at them) collapse under their weight?

Having passed the age of 60 myself, I like to look around to study how peers in the fashion world dress fashionably and stylishly. I have watched and read the documentary and the books ‘Advanced Style’ with interest. But really, with the majority of those so-called ageless style personalities, I cannot escape a feeling of vicarious embarrassment. Because sorry, these are not examples for and of mature, stylish women who should stand for good taste? Alright, maybe quite funny, but at no price do I wish to mirror myself to these ‘more is more’ crazies in a mix and match of colors and patterns of what once, decades ago, was a cheerful Oilily look.

At a certain age, the experiment stops and you can assume that a certain balance and harmony in your choices has developed. Fortunately, there are also good examples:

My (ageless) style icons:

Lauren Hutton

Carmen Dell‘Orefice

Helen Mirren

Ines de la Fressange

Jane Fonda

Linda Rodin

Text: Peggy Weijergang, peggy@amayzine.com