291: Fashion Do's and Don'ts in Midlife with Wendy from Goodbye Crop Top

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Wendy first created Goodbye Crop Top in response to a profound lack of women her age across the media landscape. 49 years old at the time, she noticed it was a rare thing to see women over 40 portrayed in a positive way in print, on television or across social media platforms. Even worse than stereotypical representation, it seemed to her that women over 50—and even women over 40—were largely erased out there and made irrelevant. She feels so great about getting older, that she felt insulted when she didn’t see the full dimensions of her experience reflected.

She decided to plant her flag as a kind of age-activist. It became her mission to be that which she wanted to see. She is grateful for the privilege of growing older and rejects the narrative that women should stop wearing red lipstick or long hair or mini-skirts or—gasp!—crop tops after some arbitrary birthday determined by a bunch of dudes in a boardroom way back in 1950.

Goodbye Crop Top is a place where women of any age——but particularly those with a few crow’s feet—can go for camaraderie, validation, information and style. Of course, style is about so much more than the clothes you put on your back: It’s about who you are underneath—about what you say, what you do, the company you keep and how you move in the world. Style is a feeling...a feeling of being comfortable in your own skin, of living in alignment with your inner and outer worlds.

In this episode, you will learn:

How to approach fashion in midlife
Why you shouldn't give up on looking good at any age
What goes into picking your fashion

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie Jill and I help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand, and laugh
0:07.8	with aging. Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated
0:14.7	information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down simply with
0:20.2	actionable steps you can implement
0:21.9	to level up your life. I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living
0:27.4	their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about our shifting hormones,
0:32.7	weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.
0:40.0	If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen from episode one when this podcast was
0:44.5	previously called Listen Up for the full transformative experience.
0:51.8	Today I've got Wendy, who created Goodbye Crop Top on here today. And I have been dying to chat
0:58.1	with her because I've been following you on social media, Wendy. And I just love your content.
1:02.5	I love that you are an anti-aging activist. I love what you do for midlife women and how you just
1:08.3	make it so fun and inspiring and motivational and you make it the opposite
1:13.5	of doomsday, which seems to be the trend around the midlife thinking. Good. Well, that's my goal.
1:19.4	So that's good to hear that with you, you know, the opposite of doomsday. There's certainly
1:25.1	enough of that out there. So yeah. Yeah. So I want to,
1:29.4	I want to take it back a little bit. Like, first of all, what made you even want to start speaking
1:34.5	into this topic, starting a podcast around it, creating social amount of it? What was the turning
1:38.7	point that made you want to do that? Yeah, yeah. So I, my career was, my formal, you know, career, if you will, was in advertising and marketing for many, many years, like 28 years. And I took a little break. I had a baby really late in life at 46, which is my third daughter. And I took a beat after that. And I've always loved to write and I've always loved style. And I just
2:05.1	said this in another interview that, you know, under my bed has always been stacks of style and
2:10.8	fashion magazines next to my short stories and poetry and copious notes that I always, you know,
2:16.9	like to do in my spare time.
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