No Fear of Fashion

Oversized brown sweater with wide leg cream trousers + BVA girls

Apologies for this outfit, I didn’t think it through. An oversized brown sweater with wide leg cream trousers might sound good in theory, it is still over proportioned. Sometimes it works, but most of the times it doesn’t and with this outfit it doesn’t work. Below: I bought this oversized sweater to make me less…
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Black waistcoat

Right, my first clothes purchase of the year, a waistcoat by Copenhagen Muse, bought at kpa.haarlem. The first of the only 10 new items of clothing this year challenge. I like it because it looks modern and a lot of my tops aren’t that modern. Black was not my favourite colour but I had the…
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Cognac coloured trousers with a green jumper and a scarf

Because of the cold, Marjolein and I did the photo shoot for this post in a big shopping centre, called the Mall of the Netherlands. It is unusually large to Dutch standards with really high ceilings. It reminds me of a shopping mall in Nice in the south of France. My American readers will probably…
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Big black and grey jumper with cream trousers

From my own wardrobe I present a new combination, my big black and grey jumper with cream trousers and burgundy boots. I am making the most of my existing wardrobe. You saw this jumper before, worn with my silver pleated skirt. The cream trousers looked less sloppy worn with my green jumper in 2021 but…
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Purple jumper with barrel jeans and mirror art

Such a great photo of Marjolein and me at the outdoor mirror art exhibition in The Hague. Marjolein was taking photos of my outfit in one of the mirror art objects and a gentleman, a true one, offered to take a photo of us both. Can you tell we had fun? By Marjolein’s request I…
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ABOUT ME

My name is Greetje, I am Dutch, born in 1954. Married and living with husband Ron, dog Watson and cat Sophie. Pretty bonus daughter is married to a lovely man and they gave us two wonderful granddaughters.

This blog is my hobby. I hope to entertain you and make you smile or laugh with the content I publish. It is for everyone, but probably most appealing to women over 40, like me (oh, all right…I am way over).

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