'He recreates with moving honesty and laugh-out-loud comedy the hopes and fears of boyhood. The theme of food and love is a fascinating one and I have never seen it better handled.' Daily Telegraph 'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written…Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. WILLIAM MORRIS was was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. The SETTLEMENT MOVEMENT was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. She later became internationally respected for the peace activism that ultimately won her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, the first American woman to receive this honor. A progressive social reformer, Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. JANE ADDAMS was an American activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author. Proud to be ‘Last to Breaking News’ since 2011.’ Find them here - walk, don’t run. Meanwhile, although the fashion world has been embracing older role models for a while now - see this Guardian piece - as photographer Nick Knight says: “I don't think it's gone far enough: there's beauty in so many different sorts of people, including ethnic, older and larger models.”ĭELAYED GRATIFICATION MAGAZINE describes itself as: “the world's first Slow Journalism magazine. “Those in the 60-and-older crowd are living longer and healthier lives than their parents by adhering to today's doctrines of diet and keeping the mind and body active… The evidence suggests that people not only are living longer but are staying young longer.” That same year, Oprah asked, “Is 80 the new 60?” This year, in 2021, The Scientific American explored the details of generational change in different places - and considered how education, income and physical exercise play their parts. “New notions of what constitutes the elderly focus more on age ranges in the 80s and 90s,” a story in the Chicago Tribune told us in 2010. If you enjoy this conversation, we recommend re-listening to Episode 33 with Advanced Style’s Ari Seth Cohen - it’s fabulous too.Ħ0 IS THE NEW 40. In a recent post on her blog, Lyn wrote: “I’m going to keep saying I’m old over and over until it drains all the pejorative connotations from the word and the exuberant proclamations like, ‘60 is the new 40’ which still seems to imply younger is better.” Are we on the brink of a new-old revolution? appreciating things that have been around a bit. But now, she’s examining further what it means to be old, and what we, as a society, think about that word - from old people to old houses to old things.ĭoes old still have a stigma? How does it relate to slow, slowing down, slow fashion. Since she began blogging in 2014, she’s been written about a thousand times as a sort poster woman for growing older stylishly. She has three quarters of a million followers in Instagram and blogs at Accidental Icon. Lyn is an academic, a professor of social welfare, and a fashion influencer. Lyn reinvented her career in her 60s, going from college professor to Instagram star and being described as “one of fashion's finest-dressed people”. How do you feel about getting older? Maybe you’re so young it feels a world away? Maybe you’re wondering where the time went? Or maybe, like this week’s guest Lyn Slater, you’re way too busy being fabulous to think too much about it.
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