Back Crepe!

No, all you Fashionistas - not Black Crepe, but most definitely Back Crepe. What is it, I hear you under-40s ask? When you get older, the skin on our bodies becomes... let's just say, less appealing - less firm. Just older. As the back is not often seen, when it is, one should be very careful. On asking a friend of mine about a big party last week and what they were all wearing, she said "They all had long blonde hair and back crepe", which meant they all had on backless dresses exposing copious amounts of older flesh. Nothing wrong with older flesh - we will all one day have it. But it's what you do with it that I'm talking about.

On the weekend, I threw a surprise birthday party for a cousin who just turned 50. Lots of family from "oop North" and for this I donned my winter white. The new top is a cashmere cable jumper with a very low front that you wear with a cami or a bustier or a blouse under. I chose a very pretty, pale pink and nude lace cami which looked very good (juxtaposing the lace with the cable). But as it was a cami, the choice of bra was important and which bra was my next dilemma. As with surprise birthdays, timing is everything and of course I hadn't given any thought to bras. So after I'd tried two on (with guests arriving) I went with the second. It's fine - it's family. The problem being that as with my friend's comment about back crepe, it happens on your décolleté as well. And as I'm approaching An Age... well, all I can say is next time I wear that outfit more time will definitely be taken over my choice of bra.

So there you have it. A very sad, but funny statement of fact. Why am I telling you this? For the past five weeks I've been thinking about a backless, long-sleeved, full-length evening dress. I tried it on today with back crepe in mind and I was confronted with the very sad truth that unfortunately, for me, this dress was no good. All those hours planning and preparing to wear it, only to have to walk away from the dress. But don't worry - I found a better dress! Also with a low back, but a better shaped back for me. So that's lucky!

Other ageing body parts - arms. I'm doing lots of Body P
ump at the moment to prevent what they (very unkindly) call Bingo Wings. Such a class statement, and I've never played Bingo, but you know what I mean...

The one thing I will say is that I'm glad I didn't spend years drying out my skin in the sun. Fake tans may be fake, but if they allow me to possess skin as good as my Mother's at her age - I'm happy to fake a pale tan.

Happy Shopping!

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How beautiful a back can look!