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"  It&amp;#039;s that time of year again. Fall and winter are upon us, I&amp;#039;m reviewing all of the new collections, and I&amp;#039;m wondering which of these looks I can really wear. I saw a picture of Demi Moore the other day looking fantastic. She was fit and sharp in a red dress. There was no age attached to her look. If a 25-year-old woman had been wearing the same dress, she would have looked good \u2014 but Demi looked even better. I wondered, when do we as women grow out of things or into things? Will there come a day when I feel awkward wearing a fitted black dress? Are the days of d\u00E9collet\u00E9 over for me? No matter how many pictures of Gisele B\u00FCndchen I put on my fridge for inspiration, is that two-piece bathing suit ever going to come back into my life? I spent some time in Europe this past summer and was floored by the fact that women there just do whatever the heck they want. They don&amp;#039;t have anyone telling them they can&amp;#039;t wear a two-piece bathing suit to the beach. And when I say two-piece bathing suit, we are talking unself-conscious women who have borne children and eaten a few ice-cream cones along the way. A friend of mine recently visited a beach club in Greece where she was told she could spend the day. Arriving at the location, she said to herself, &amp;quot;Hmm, this can&amp;#039;t be a beach. All the women here are wearing high heels with their swimsuits.&amp;quot; But it was. And yes, the women were wearing high heels with their bathing suits \u2014 but they weren&amp;#039;t all under 30. Now, I am not going to be wearing heels with a swimsuit. That&amp;#039;s for a different, less self-conscious culture perhaps. Or maybe Vegas. Or Halloween. But what I do like is the idea that we shouldn&amp;#039;t care about what we wear. Where fashion is concerned, shouldn&amp;#039;t it be about what we feel good in, what we look best in, even if that&amp;#039;s not a universal given? Shouldn&amp;#039;t style be about the true reflection of who we are at any moment in time? That leads me to the next thing I&amp;#039;ve been thinking about: What do I feel good in now that I wouldn&amp;#039;t have awhile back? What do I have to paste into a mental scrapbook of my fashion memories or sweetly store for my granddaughters to enjoy? Okay, so being a grandmother isn&amp;#039;t right around the corner. At the moment, I&amp;#039;m still not seeing myself in the suits I buy for my mom. But it&amp;#039;s not too far off. What I do know is that I am not going to buy anything uncomfortable ever again. Nope. Not gonna do it. If I have to kick off my shoes the minute I sit in a car or at a table, then they don&amp;#039;t belong on my feet. What&amp;#039;s comfortable then? I sometimes joke about wearing sweats, but the truth is that I just don&amp;#039;t feel great leaving the house in them. I feel as if I forgot to get dressed. I do admit to wearing them to bed on occasion and going straight to the gym in the morning, bypassing the getting-out-of-pajamas-and-into-workout-clothes scenario. And guess what? I know other women who do this too. Workout clothes and pajamas are practically interchangeable nowadays. Who&amp;#039;s to know? Still, when not in the gym or at home, I would rather wear a pair of thin, well-cut jeans, flats, a nonclingy T-shirt, and a sweater or jacket I can move my arms in instead of sweats. My version of a jacket I can move in would be a stretch-leather one from Miu Miu or Prada. I still wear my Tom Ford Gucci motorcycle jacket from his 1996 collection. My T-shirt is usually James Perse, LnA, or Zooey. The flats could be J. Crew, Lanvin, or Prada. I have also grown into wearing a long cotton scarf around my neck. I am so happy that this is currently in style. What a great accessory a scarf is. It hides some neck things and also hides some stomach things. A twofer! As for handbags, I am not a purse changer. I usually stick with one purse when I find one I like.  There are so many beautiful things out there that can be worn, allowing us to be fashionable and comfortable. Just because you are a certain age, it doesn&amp;#039;t mean that you have to say goodbye to fashion. It can mean that you become more fashionable because you have earned the right to express who you are through what you buy. In the past, I have mentioned Lanvin and Prada. At Lanvin, Alber Elbaz understands that being comfortable doesn&amp;#039;t mean you are wearing a sack. He has figured out how to give women glamour, fashion, and elegance. Miuccia Prada understands this too. Here is a woman who, at 60 years old, continues to stretch the boundaries of what is appropriate for women of all ages. She, being an artist, is into mixing it up, telling women to take chances, to express themselves and be true to themselves.  If I had to make a list of things I have grown out of and things I have grown into, it might look something like this. Things I&amp;#039;ve Grown OUT Of  Tight jeans with muffin top or butt crack showing. Muffins are for eating, not wearing, and crack kills.  Extremely high-heeled uncomfortable shoes. Yes, I may have to retire my four-inchers to the disco in the sky. Shiny eyeshadow. If you really like the look of metallic green in your eye creases, ignore me. If you are unsure, go to the mirror, pull out the skin on your lid, and wait to see how quickly it bounces back. If you fall asleep while waiting for your skin to crawl back, you will know that Soylent Green shadow is not for you. Heavy foundation. For all the ladies who have had hot flashes, is there nothing better than your makeup dripping off your face and onto your clean linen napkin in a restaurant? Love! Too much cleavage. I like my cleavage, but I swear my boobs are getting bigger as I get older, and I am not loving that. Do boobs get bigger, like noses do? Why can&amp;#039;t they shrink instead, like we do in height? Fashion for fashion&amp;#039;s sake. This one speaks for itself. Trying to look too hip or too young. I&amp;#039;m not going to be in any plaid minis or getting a tattoo \u2014 unless it says MOM on it with a heart and an arrow. Caring what other people think about what I am wearing. That&amp;#039;s liberating.  Anything too tight. Ugh. I just held my stomach in when I wrote that to remind myself that I never want to live like that again \u2014 ever. Although this isn&amp;#039;t a wardrobe thing, I have outgrown spending my time doing anything that I don&amp;#039;t want to be doing with people I don&amp;#039;t want to be doing that thing with.  Things I Have Grown INTO  Having less clothing, but having what&amp;#039;s best for my body. Who needs 10 pairs of identical jeans? We always wear our favorite ones anyway. Having more fun with clothes and not being dictated to about what I can and cannot wear. It worked for Georgia O&amp;#039;Keeffe. Scarf around the neck. Thank you, Nora Ephron and Nicole Richie. Being okay with not being able to wear things that are best left to the young&amp;#039;uns. Jewelry that is fun and funky. I have been wearing these string bracelets from Greece for a year now, and I take them off only when I work on camera. I have even worn them with gowns. Don&amp;#039;t care! Love them. Quality. C&amp;#039;est vrai. C&amp;#039;est la qualit\u00E9.  Simplicity. It&amp;#039;s that easy.   Things I&amp;#039;ll NEVER Let Go  I hate to say this, but ... sparkles. I love my bling on a T-shirt now and then. A dress. A purse. And I will still wear it in moderation. My bling has me on a pretty short bedazzled leash.  I look forward to refining my list to a perfectly comfortable size. And while I do, I will smile with the knowledge that there is no age I would rather be than the age I am right now. That acceptance is something I hope I never outgrow. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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