Tag: Sylvia
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Black linen dress with Angela Caputi necklace
The photos for this blog post were taken with an iPhone which means the quality isn’t that good. My phone had to do for taking photos as I was walking through Amsterdam all day with Sylvia of 40PlusStyle. My normal camera (plus flashlight) is terribly heavy. Silvia is the one who encouraged me to start…
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A yellow summer dress
When I saw Karlijn of kpa.haarlem wearing this yellow summer dress on Instagram, I was very quick to buy it. This is an ideal dress for me. Maxi, with which I don’t mind wearing flat shoes so much. Long sleeves to hide wrinkly arms. Darts at the top to allow my ample bosom to fit…
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White cherry print dress by Max Mara
When I got out of the dressing room at Max Mara in Paris, wearing this white cherry print dress, my friend Susan (of Une femme d’une certain âge) went “Ohhhh, lovely”…which immediately sold the dress to me. The previous day my husband had already picked this dress out as something he loved but I thought…
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Python print boots and a green jacket
The concept behind this photoshoot was good: let’s go to the garden behind the Ripperda kazerne (kazerne = barracks) and shoot an outfit with these python print boots. In reality, not such a good idea. The garden wasn’t very nice (it is winter… duh) and the barracks were too impressive to use as background. Below:…
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Multi-coloured knitted cardigan and fun in a store
Kitty had asked Karlijn, the owner of kpa.haarlem, one of my favourite stores, whether it would be all right if we had a photo shoot in her store if it was a cold day. She agreed and of course I chose to feature the multi-coloured knitted cardigan I had bought there a month ago. It…
