Winter weight: Kilos and clothes
If you have not yet read Frances Ray's " Spring Body Audit " on her Substack site, Beautiful Strangers, I recommend that you do, for she addresses a decision that affects a good number of women in the Passage: the moment when those in cold climates shed coats and ample sweaters only to find "winter weight": the 3-4kg has crept on during dark days. For me, the driver to address (or ignore) weight fluctuations is predominantly about economics. I resent buying more when good clothes are sitting there unworn, or paying to alter them, which has mostly not worked well. If I subject the things to Marie Kondo's question, "Does it spark joy?", I'm soundly joy-bereft. Lucille says shape up I thought I had the magic solution to this some years ago but was wrong. After a significant menopause gain, I embraced the Lagenlook loose, flowing aesthetic and figured that was fine, until I was given a day with an image consultant. Lucille plucked every one of t...
