Month: November 2025

Emily Simpson’s Ivory Cropped Cable Knit Sweater

Emily Simpson’s Ivory Cropped Cable Knit Sweater / Real Housewives of Orange County Instagram Fashion November 2025

Sweater weather is in full swing folks so, like it or not, we need ’em. And Emily Simpson’s ivory cropped cable knit one she wore on her IG stories recently is a great get of a sweater. Especially because its still fully stocked so why don’t ya take a ride down to shop it.

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess


Emily Simpson's Ivory Cropped Cable Knit Sweater

Photo: @rhoc_emilysimpson


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Fashion Over 50: Our 32 Favorite Fashion Bloggers You Should Follow

favorite fashion bloggers over 50

Are you a fashionista? Do you like to be stylish and stay up to date on the trends? Many fashion bloggers are women over 50 who write blogs and articles for mature women.

I love to follow fashion bloggers who showcase fashion topics that we can relate to.

Here Is the List of Our Top 5 Favorite Fashion Bloggers:

  1. The Middle Page – Shop for top looks for middle aged women on this website.
  2. Grece Ghanem – Bold, modern, and unique fashion icon.
  3. A Touch of Style – Jodie Filogomo – Fashion advice and tips for women over 50.
  4. Penelope Jane Whiteley – Useful information about fashion and life for women over 50.
  5. Hello, I’m 50ish – Elegant and age positive Robin Lamonte shares her lifestyle and fashion advice for women over 60.

Read on to discover our complete list of fashion bloggers for women over 50.

Why Follow Fashion Bloggers Over 50?

Fashion bloggers over 50 bring something truly special to the style conversation. They’ve lived through trends, adapted to changing bodies, and developed a sense of style that’s authentic, confident, and personal. Following fashion influencers in your own age group can be incredibly empowering, offering inspiration that’s both stylish and relatable.

Unlike many younger influencers focused on fast fashion or unattainable looks, these women understand the importance of comfort, fit, and timeless pieces. They know how to make wardrobe staples feel fresh and how to mix high and low fashion in smart, creative ways. They also offer real-life tips: how to dress for hot flashes, what shoes actually work for sore feet, or how to layer stylishly without adding bulk.

Whether you’re rediscovering your style, refining it, or just looking for new outfit ideas, these fashion bloggers are proof that great style doesn’t come with an expiration date.

Fashion Bloggers Over 50 to Discover

The Middle Page

the middle page

Cathy Williamson created The Middle Page where she writes about fashion and style for middle-aged women. On her website you can access all her blogs and shop her looks.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Grece Ghanem

Grece Ghanem

Grece Ghanem is a style icon with almost two million followers on Instagram. Her style is bold, modern, and unique.

A Touch of Style – Jodie Filogomo

Jodie's Touch of Style

Our very own Sixty and Me fashion contributor Jodie Filogomo has her own website where along with her mom, Charlotte, and her good friend, Lesley, shares fashion advice and tips.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Penelope Jane Whiteley

Aging disgracefully

Aging disgracefully is a website full of useful information for women over 50. Penelope also contributes fashion articles on Sixty and Me.

Hello, I’m 50ish

Hello, I'm 50ish

Robin Lamonte is a 60+ age positive influencer. She posts photos of her elegant lifestyle on her Instagram and gives fashion and life advice for older women.

Senior Style Bible

Dorrie Jacobson, the founder of Senior Style Bible, offers fashion advice and inspiration specifically for older women. Her blog emphasizes embracing personal style and feeling confident at any age.

Midlifechic

Nikki Garnett, who edited Selfridges magazine for nine years, now lives near the Lake District in the Northwest of England.

She started Midlifechic as a response to feeling like she had lost her groove amid the chaos of family and work life. The platform is for others who, like her, are emerging from the child-centric years and looking forward to a new chapter in life.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

A Well Styled Life

A Well Styled Life

Jennifer Connelly gives styling advice and fashion tips on her website A Well Styled Life. Everything from finding the perfect trench coat to updating your wardrobe essentials.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Andrea Pflaumer

Andrea is a Sixty & Me fashion and beauty contributor and author of the book Shopping for the Real You – The book that teaches you how to become your own stylist. Visit her website for fashion advice and shopping tips. 

Also, follow her on Facebook.

Cindy Hattersley

cindy Hattersley

Cindy is a fashion blogger who loves everything design. Her website is loaded with articles about style and design for women over 50.

Follow her on Instagram.

Style at a Certain Age

style at a certain age

Beth Djalali and her team create fashion blogs for the Style at a Certain Age website. They cover everything from design to closet cleaning.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Une Femme d’un Certain Âge

Une Femme d’un Certain Âge

This website is not in French; it is, however, very much influenced by French fashion. Susan Blakey travels a lot and gives great fashion advice for traveling women over 50.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

The Midlife Fashionista

the midlife fashionista

Susan is a middle-aged fashion blogger who likes to help women feel beautiful and confident. Her goal is to give women easy to implement outfit ideas that are stylish, comfortable and modern.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

50 Is Not Old

Tania Stephens shares her fashion finds and tips on her website 50 Is Not Old. Her style is “classic meets trendy,” and she loves pairing high-quality fashion pieces with affordable clothing to create unique looks. 

Follow her on her Instagram and Pinterest.

Awed by Monica

Monica Awe-Etuk is a Nigerian-American fashion blogger known for her bold and colorful style. She shares her fashion adventures, styling tips, and outfit inspiration on her blog and social media platforms, catering to women of all ages, including those over 50.

Watch her videos on her YouTube channel.

Funking After 50

funking after 50

Funking After Fifty’s fun, quirky, and engaging Instagram profile has tons of pro aging posts with unique and modern styling tips.

Mumma B Stylish

Mumma B Stylish

Jacqui is an over-50 fashion blogger who loves to share her styling tips and lifestyle hacks. Visit her website.

Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.

The Wardrobe Consultant – Hallie Abrams

The Wardrobe Consultant – Hallie Abrams

Hallie is a fashion stylist and blogger. She styles and writes for real people for real life. Visit her website.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Vanity & Me

Vanity & Me

Laurie Bronze’s website Vanity & Me covers all things fashion and styling for mature women.

Check out her videos on her YouTube channel.

Hillhouse Vintage – Paula Sutton

Hillhouse Vintage – Paula Sutton

Elegant country and vintage living. Paula gives us a peek into her lifestyle on her Instagram.

Over 50 Feeling 40 – Pamela Lutrell

Over 50 Feeling 40 – Pamela Lutrell

Pamela is a fashion and lifestyle blogger for women over 50. She helps women achieve strength, confidence, inspiration, and head-turning personal style.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Over the Hilda

Over the Hilda

Over The Hilda is a website where you can read about Hilda’s beauty finds and where she shares her tips for fashion for mature women.

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Fashion Should Be Fun

Fashion Should Be Fun

Fashion Should Be Fun was created by style blogger Dawn Lucy. She says that women are never too old to have fun and be fierce!

Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

Cultured Curves

Cultured Curves

Linda Peavy is a 55+ curvy fashionista full of style and substance who loves promoting body positivity. Her website Cultured Curves is geared towards curvy women over 50.

Follow her on Instagram.

That’s Not My Age

Alyson Walsh created That’s Not My Age in 2008 to reach out to women of all ages. She’s a freelance journalist and former fashion magazine editor and author. 

Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Judith Boyd – Style Crone 

A striking, hat-loving fashion blogger who turned widowhood into a platform for fierce self-expression.

Find her on Instagram.

Carla Rockmore

A Canadian-American stylist and late bloomer in the influencer world, Carla gained fame through her TikTok and YouTube channels, where she shares archive-level wardrobe insights. Think Iris Apfel meets Carrie Bradshaw.

Debra Rapoport (Advanced Style)

Featured in Ari Seth Cohen’s iconic Advanced Style project, Debra is known for her signature pink hair and DIY accessories. Her outfits blend creativity and confidence, reminding fans that fun doesn’t have an age limit.

Follow her on Instagram.

Colleen Heidemann 

A macro-fashion influencer celebrated for her dramatic silhouettes and editorial-ready ensembles catered to mature women.

Find her on Instagram and TikTok.

Susie Wright 

A former Nordstrom buyer turned stylist influencer with ~580K followers on Instagram, sharing polished, vacation-ready outfits ideal for mature wardrobes.

Rose Hayes 

Featured in 2025 influencer roundups, Rose is a fashion stylist with a growing audience offering sharp, modern styling advice for women over 50.

Find her on Instagram.

Caroline Baudino (Shop With Caroline)

An inspiring influencer who transformed her life in her 50s, now running a successful fashion brand with six-figure monthly earnings. Ideal for mature women seeking reinvention.Find her on Instagram and TikTok

Read FASHION FOR WOMEN OVER 60 – LOOK FABULOUS WITHOUT TRYING TO LOOK YOUNGER.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Do you follow any fashion bloggers? Who are your favorite fashion bloggers for women over 50? Let us know in the comments below.

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Grief, Loss, and Loneliness After 60: How to Finally Heal

Grief, Loss, and Loneliness After 60 How to Finally Heal

By the time you reach 60, you’ve buried people you love. Maybe your best friend from college. Maybe siblings, parents, the person you thought you’d grow old with.

And with those losses often comes something harder to name: a deep loneliness, even when you’re surrounded by family. A heaviness that won’t lift. A sense that no one really understands what you’re going through.

You might think, “I should be grateful for what I have” or “Other people have it worse.” But that doesn’t make the grief go away. It doesn’t ease the loneliness.

Here’s what most people don’t understand: grief, loss, and loneliness aren’t just emotional problems. They live in your body. And until you understand how your body holds onto these feelings, true healing remains out of reach.

But here’s what makes grief and loneliness so hard to bear: You were taught, decades ago, that these feelings were wrong.

You Were Taught That Some Feelings Were “Wrong”

Think back to your childhood – the 1950s, ’60s, or ’70s perhaps. Maybe you cried and heard, “Stop that crying.” Got angry and heard, “Children should be seen and not heard.” If you were a boy: “Big boys don’t cry.” If you were a girl: “Don’t be so emotional.”

Those words seemed normal then. But here’s what they actually taught you: Some of your feelings are wrong.

So you learned to hide them. You smiled when you wanted to cry. You went quiet when you wanted to scream. You “didn’t burden others.”

That pattern doesn’t disappear just because you’re 65 or 75 or 85 now.

The Pattern Continues Through a Lifetime

Maybe your spouse says something dismissive, and you go quiet instead of saying, “That hurt my feelings.” Or your adult children make decisions about your care without listening, and you tell yourself, “They mean well. I shouldn’t complain.” Or your doctor talks past you, but you smile politely because “I don’t want to be difficult.”

Or you’re at your friend’s funeral and someone says, “At least they’re not suffering anymore,” and you want to scream, “But I’M suffering!” Instead, you nod and say, “Yes, that’s true.”

That’s what happens when emotional safety is missing. Even after a lifetime. You still hide what you feel because your body remembers: showing emotions wasn’t safe when you were young.

Your Body Still Remembers

Your body still remembers what happened 50, 60, 70 years ago. It remembers the rejection, the shame, the punishment for showing emotion.

So when you feel something big – grief over lost friends, anger about health problems, fear about losing independence – your body tenses up. You shut down.

That’s your nervous system asking, “Is it safe to feel this?” Until your body learns the answer is yes, you can’t fully heal.

What “Feeling Safe” Actually Means

It means your body finally believes: “I can feel this emotion and still be okay. I won’t be rejected. I’m allowed to feel.”

When that happens, your breathing slows, muscles relax, mind clears. You stop minimizing your feelings. You stop saying “it’s fine” when it’s not.

That’s emotional safety. It’s not some modern therapy idea. It’s biology. And it works the same at 70 as it does at 7.

What Happens Inside Your Body When You Feel Safe

Your brain has an alarm system – the amygdala – that constantly asks: “Are we safe?” If it thinks you’re in danger, your heart races and stress hormones flood your system.

But when your brain says “we’re safe,” the vagus nerve activates your body’s calming system. Breathing slows. Heart rate drops. Blood pressure may come down. Your body shifts into “rest and repair” mode – where healing happens.

The thinking part of your brain – the prefrontal cortex – comes back online. You can notice feelings without being overwhelmed.

That’s not a metaphor. That’s your biology. And it works at any age.

Feeling vs. Acting

Emotional safety doesn’t mean acting on every feeling. You can feel angry without lashing out. You can feel hurt without shutting people out.

All feelings are allowed. Not all actions are.

Emotional safety gives you space to feel fully – then choose how to respond. Many of us were taught that “controlling emotions” meant not feeling them at all. But that’s suppression, not control. And decades of suppression take a toll.

You Can’t Heal Without Safety First

You can’t heal what you’re still afraid to feel.

If your body believes that feeling sad makes you weak, or admitting loneliness burdens others, it will shut those feelings down automatically.

That’s why “just think positive” doesn’t work. That’s why “count your blessings” sometimes makes you feel worse.

It’s never too late. Your nervous system can still learn. You can still change patterns that have been there for decades.

How You Build Emotional Safety

You can teach your body that it’s safe to feel. You do it one small moment at a time.

Notice What You’re Feeling Without Judging It

Instead of “I’m being ridiculous,” try “I feel sad, and that’s okay.”

Name the Emotion

Labeling what you feel – “I’m grieving” or “I feel invisible” – calms your brain.

Pause Before You React

Take one slow breath. Feel your feet on the floor.

Find Safe People

Be around people who listen without trying to fix you. A friend, support group, therapist, or spiritual community.

Ground Yourself

When overwhelmed, touch something solid. Hold something warm – tea, a pet, a blanket.

If mobility or hearing loss makes some techniques challenging, focus on what works for your body – even just placing your hand on your heart works.

Give Yourself Credit

You survived a generation that didn’t talk about feelings. You made it through decades without this support. That took tremendous strength. Now you’re adding new tools, not replacing what got you here.

Every time you do one of these things, you’re teaching your body a new message: It’s safe to feel.

Why This Matters at This Stage of Life

Chronic stress from suppressed emotions contributes to high blood pressure, heart disease, and weakened immunity. Emotional regulation helps with pain and chronic conditions. Feeling emotionally safe improves sleep.

This is the missing piece in caring for your health.

One Last Thing

Healing doesn’t mean you stop having hard emotions. It means you stop being afraid of them.

When your body knows it’s safe to feel, you can finally choose who you want to be in these later years – instead of reacting from old fears.

You’ve lived long enough to earn the right to feel everything. That’s emotional safety. And that’s where healing begins – at any age.

If you’re ready to go deeper – with poetry that speaks to your generation, practical nervous system exercises, and a compassionate roadmap through grief and generational trauma – my book From Chains to Wings: A Poetry Revolution for Healing offers tools specifically designed for healing that’s been waiting decades.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

What feelings do you usually suppress? Why? Is there a pattern or learned behavior that’s been telling you it’s not safe to feel a certain way?

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