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How do you feel about getting older? Maybe you\\u2019re so young it feels a world away? Or maybe you\\u2019re feeling it, and wondering where the time went?

This week\\u2019s guest fashion influencer Lyn Slater has no such worries - she reinvented her career in her 60s, going from college professor to Instagram star and being described as \\u201cone of fashion\'s finest-dressed people\\u201d. Since then she\\u2019s been written about a thousand times as a sort poster woman for growing older stylishly. But now, she\\u2019s examining further what it means to be old, and what we think about that word, from old people to old houses to old things.

In a recent post on her blog, Accidental Icon, she wrote: \\u201cI\\u2019m going to keep saying I\\u2019m old over and over until it drains all the pejorative connotations from the word and the exuberant proclamations like, \\u201860 is the new 40\\u2019 which still seems to imply younger is better.\\u201d

Does old still have a stigma? How does it relate to slow, slowing down, slow fashion, appreciating things that have been around a bit. Are we on the brink of a new-old revolution? It\'s time to have a conversation about how to be old!

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