![]() ![]() Namely, the idea that after you reach an, ahem, certain age, that there's no reason to care how you look-or more to the point, that women beyond 30, 40, 50, etc. And while we certainly support the idea of wearing whatever the hell you want (not to mention brandy, shoe shopping, and grocery store sample-indulgence) there's something buried in that first line that we have to balk at. It was even voted Britain's best loved poem (which feels like a bit of an insult to the likes of Alfred Lord Tennyson, but if the Brits can live with that, so can we). Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning" has been a subversive call to arms for the propriety-buckers of the world for decades. With a red hat, which doesn't go and doesn't suit me." You've read it on posters, cocktail napkins, and at least one of your relative's Facebook pages. "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. ![]()
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