Avoid the excessively frilly and anything that looks like a nightie – that must remain the preserve of the young. It comes in two extremes: frilly and frou frou, or pared down and geometric. Sheer is another look that was around last year and will stay for a while longer. Sheer smooths and flatters, blurs and softens and you can be as elegant and bohemian as you want to be. Counter-intuitively perhaps, sheer is a gift to older women in the way of soft focus or candlelight. The whole point of sheer is that it's light and fey and soft and feminine – stick your favourite thermal vest underneath and you've done the style equivalent of stamping on a macaroon in hiking boots. There are far too many shapeless, gauzy shrouds in penumbral shades wafted out, which in itself is bad enough but I reserve special loathing for the billowing chiffon sleeve and extra-special loathing for those who decide it's perhaps a bit immodest and whack some unforgivable variation of the jersey camisole/vest/T-shirt underneath without matching the neckline to whatever's on top (but that might be my OCD). I hate it when it's the bastard child of Bet Lynch and Hyacinth Bucket. I love sheer but only when it's done properly. Which is why I want to discuss that most tantalisingly feminine of looks, sheer. I was going to say "still" but the word offends me – I mean why wouldn't you "still" want those things? Old concepts hang around like stale cigar smoke and one of these is that once you're past menopause you are no longer feminine – "erotically pointless" I read the other day – well, cobblers to that. One of the unexpected things (some might think) is that older women like to be stylish and feminine. Battling through the hormonal storm to the other side bestows a certain serenity and whether the physical symptoms are disabling or merely a blip there are still the psychological factors to consider, not just for ourselves but in how others perceive us. We talked about the effects of the menopause and she explained that her worries lay not so much in what lies in wait at the end of it – in that it is seen as a rite of passage into old age – but in the psychological adjustment required in getting there. I keep returning to a conversation I had with a reader at Mirror Mirror last October. ![]() Links to them are on the Patreon post.I rather like this transitional time, when we slide from a slightly dog-eared old year to a crisp, clean new one and (as one does) I spend a lot of time simply thinking. Huge thank you to our every who tested the pack for us to help iron out the issues. Credit to for helping with the poses for the main picture used for the pack.Check out the trailer on his YouTube here. Credit to Luumia for creating the amazing trailer and coming up with the pack description for us.Credit Waekey for allowing us to use their mesh as a base for the skirt.Credit to ridgeport for allowing ayoshi to use her buttons on the top.Credit to bowl-of-plumbobs and saurussims for allowing us to edit their mesh from this pack they released.Any not by them were made by ayoshi or myself. Credit to for some of the Simlish logos and prints used on the Graphics version of the top.Report any issues to me through Tumblr DM with images.► 25+ pattern, graphic, or patch versions The clothes come in 1 out of 3 palettes.All hairs come in 24 EA Colors and are hat compatible. ![]()
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