Advanced Style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb6GklRnS7g

Nellie sent me this delightful link yesterday: it's about an artist in her seventies who dresses and lives exuberantly!

Then, at lunch today, Kate gave me the name of a movie on Netflix, which I've just watched and love: Advanced Style.  It's a documentary about women--aged 60 to 95--whose artistic venue is clothes and jewelry.

I feel I'm seeing my daughter when she grows old--a girl who's always loved to dress up in unique ways.  She loves to go to thrift shops and buy clothes-with-possibilities, then appliqué designs on them or add ruffles.  Or she'll buy chenille bedspreads or tablecloths and cut them up and make something wearable out of them. Even as a little girl, Day liked making costumes out of rags, painting her shoes, even making a pair of green felt elfin shoes.  She makes magic out of the ordinary, and she shines!

These elder women remind me of little girls who like dressing up every day, riding down the streets of New York on bicycles, or walking, strutting and sashaying and doing exactly what they want to do.  There's such a vibrancy in these women, their zest for life, their insatiable appetites for traveling and learning.

If you want to watch a charming parade of women who live to the fullest every day, each in her own way, don't miss Advanced Style!