Bring back the older woman

Women with many years behind them aren’t about to hang up their love of style just yet.

I WISH I’d known Mrs Exeter – stylish and in her 50s, she sounds like my kind of woman. When she was “born” on the pages of Vogue magazine in 1949, she was introduced as a woman “approaching 60 ... a fact she accepts with perfect good humour and reasonableness.” She was also something we desperately need today – an older woman’s voice in an iconic fashion magazine.