Bare Arms at 60: How I Chose To Embrace Them

2015-07-16 06:57

From blog Not Dead Yet Style

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Bare Arms at 60: How I Chose To Embrace Them

Lots of women my age, and younger, prefer not to wear sleeveless clothing. I used to be one of them. My reluctance was partly based on the impossibly perfect arms we see on commercial fashion sites. Smooth, undimpled, taut skin is what's shown in magazines and catalogs, even those aimed at mature women. This is what arms really look like as we age (thank you to Ari Seth Cohen ). Not "perfect", but perfectly fine: Photo by Ari Seth Cohen from his fabulous site Advanced Style. I do upper-body workouts, and I like having strength as well as a mini-bicep-bulge. But I've still got crepey skin, freckles and folds because I have been on the planet for...

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