If you grew up wearing beautiful high heels, giving them up is a grieving process and the comfortable options age us by a couple of decades, at least.

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She was wearing a beautiful red and gold jacket and she was wearing, had taken out her rubies and, and she looked almost, I mean she did look as she did before she had her very first stroke and she was in fantastic form and that is actually how I would like to remember and will remember her.

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Whatever happened to wearing something because it is beautiful, because it makes the wearer feel beautiful and confident?

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But increasingly, the women who look the most beautiful and the most modern seem to be wearing little or no makeup.

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However, what you are wearing is less of a concern if you just visit the beautiful old bar adjacent to the dining room.

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It had little to do with the preset three-daily, starch-heavy meals that were served or the friendly, souvenir-shirt-wearing crew who, at the end of the trip, presented a beautiful traditional dance on the sundeck.

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Mrs Brown, who was carrying a bouquet of red roses and was wearing a lilac scarf and a long dark overcoat, smiled as her husband spoke of their "beautiful" baby.

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