Kate Reardon Quotes

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

I'm a big advocate for young girls dressing their age.

I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?

I'm speaking in very broad brushstrokes, but in France, there's generally this idea that you should look like the best version of the age that you are.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore.

No 13-year-old or over should ever be seen in trousers that finish above the ankle. It doesn't matter how good your legs are, or if you're on a beach in Bermuda where they invented the things.

You don't want to wear any styles that are too young... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters.

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?