Andrea Pflaumer, Author at Shopping for the Real You

About Andrea Pflaumer

Author of Shopping for the Real You, Andrea Pflaumer, is a non-fiction writer in the San Francisco Bay Area and host of the video series, Vital, Vivacious, and Visible after 50. She has written extensively about fashion for local and national publications and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Better After 50, Sixty and Me, She Savvy, and Prime Women. Her free ten-lesson course, A Lazy Person's Guide to the Perfect Wardrobe, is available on Highbrow.com.

Fashion Week—Every Week

While packing for a trip to New York for my niece’s wedding, which just so happened to coincide with Fashion Week, I read the following amusing (sort of) quote on designer Mondo Guerra’s Facebook page: “Every year women in New York City put the past behind them and look toward the future: it’s called Fashion Week.”

I’m sure that’s a delightful concept for designers and retailers who make a living by inspiring some level of insecurity in their customers: “If I don’t buy the latest I’ll […]

Andrea Pflaumer2020-06-08T15:22:31-07:00

Why the classic wardrobe pieces have something for everyone

In the book I describe some of what are considered the classic wardrobe staples that every woman should own. I always have to qualify this concept with a little dose of reality and this caveat: depending upon your lifestyle and coloring, the strictly “classic” version of these may not work for you.

Still, they have stood the test of time (at least for the past 100 years or so—in the larger scheme of things these too may pass) for a reason. Here are some of the reasons why classics are sexy and appropriate […]

Andrea Pflaumer2020-06-08T15:24:22-07:00