“New notions of what constitutes the elderly focus more on age ranges in the 80s and 90s,” a story in the Chicago Tribune told us in 2010. If you enjoy this conversation, we recommend re-listening to Episode 33 with Advanced Style’s Ari Seth Cohen - it’s fabulous too.Ħ0 IS THE NEW 40. In a recent post on her blog, Lyn wrote: “I’m going to keep saying I’m old over and over until it drains all the pejorative connotations from the word and the exuberant proclamations like, ‘60 is the new 40’ which still seems to imply younger is better.” Are we on the brink of a new-old revolution?
appreciating things that have been around a bit. But now, she’s examining further what it means to be old, and what we, as a society, think about that word - from old people to old houses to old things.ĭoes old still have a stigma? How does it relate to slow, slowing down, slow fashion.
Since she began blogging in 2014, she’s been written about a thousand times as a sort poster woman for growing older stylishly. She has three quarters of a million followers in Instagram and blogs at Accidental Icon. Lyn is an academic, a professor of social welfare, and a fashion influencer. Lyn reinvented her career in her 60s, going from college professor to Instagram star and being described as “one of fashion's finest-dressed people”. How do you feel about getting older? Maybe you’re so young it feels a world away? Maybe you’re wondering where the time went? Or maybe, like this week’s guest Lyn Slater, you’re way too busy being fabulous to think too much about it.
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