Bath in Fashion is now in full swing but with little man in tow and a summer of festivals to get ready for it looks sadly as if it is going to have to deal without me this year. One event that I would love to get to is tonight at
The Little Theatre in Bath; a screening with live Q&A of
Fabulous Fashionistas Sue Bourne's wonderful documentary about six women successfully carving out a stylish and confident path in their twilight years. One of the stars of the film is local woman Jean whose story of how she reinvented herself after the death of her husband and true-love is one of the most moving pieces of film that I have seen in a long time. Since the documentary first aired on Channel 4 Jean has rightly become a local (and national, a portrait of her has been shortlisted for the BP Portrait Awards) celebrity and this weekend opened a local Bank Holiday Weekend Festival in Bath.
If you are not able to make it to the screening tonight I highly recommend that you watch the documentary which is still available online. It is moving and incredibly inspiring to realise that our visible, external self does not need to dwindle with the years but instead can provide the platform for a new, bolder, more confident self...who would not find that idea appealing and empowering?
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